The Legacy I Leave: A Personal Account 1839-1899 autobiography of Mark Hunt, Irish Emigrant from County Kildare + Civil War Letters ~Batavia

Title: The Legacy I Leave: A Personal Account of Sixty Years 1839-1899 with Civil War Letters

Author: Narrated by Mark Hunt to his daughter [Grace Marion Hunt Berger] in the early 1920s

Description: Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Mark Hunt's daughter, Grace, who transcribed his narration back in the early 1920s. Hardcover. Brown faux-leather boards with gilt lettering on spine. Minor soiling on a couple pages; small tea spot on fore-edge of text block. 25 pages of historic photographs, including many portraits, printed on semi-gloss paper. 212 pages.

The memoirs of Mark Hunt, Jr. (1839-1930), who immigrated the United States from Ireland in 1849 or 1850.

The narration begins with his memories of his hometown of Monasterevin, County Kildare. After coming to America, the family settled a farm at Batavia, Genessee County, New York. Following the Civil War, in which his brothers fought, Mark resettled in Iowa and resided there beginning in 1865 (locations including Shell Rock and a homestead in Spencer). He worked at various jobs, as a surveyor, as a principal at a school in Spirit Lake, Iowa, doing carpentry work in Nebraska, and finally working with the Union Pacific Railroad. He settled in Elkhorn, Wisconsin in the early 1880s and the memoir ends with the year 1899.

Includes about 40 pages of family letters written during the Civil War.
Appendices include a genealogical outline of family members and a family chronology.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Friis-Pioneer Press
Place: Santa Ana, California
Year: 1984

Keywords: genealogy, Hunt family, Ireland, Monasterevin, Monasterevan, County Kildare, Irish immigrants, Batavia, Genesee County, Shell Rock, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa, Elkhorn, Wisconsin,