San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 2/14/2010
MISS JENNIE MATEER HUNTER
Worthily perpetuating the name of a highly honored pioneer family, Miss Jennie Mateer Hunter is a native daughter born on the Hunter homestead near Linden, San Joaquin County. Her parents, the late Anthony and Eliza J. (Magill) Hunter, natives of Ireland of Scotch parentage, were pioneers of the Golden State. Miss Hunter was afforded an unusually good home on completing the public schools. She entered and completed a business course at the Stockton Business College, finishing her education at the celebrated Mills Seminary, Oakland.
In the meantime she was acquiring a thorough knowledge of the ranching business in close association with her beloved father prior to his death, January 21, 1891, and on his death he bequeathed her a ranch of 322 acres, a valuable legacy. However, she remained with her mother at the old Hunter home, ministering to her comfort at all times as well as looking after her business interests; she thus relieved her mother from all unnecessary worry and care. This she faithfully carried out with a daughter's true devotion. She was constantly at her mother's side during the latter's declining years, and no wish was ever left ungratified. On September 14, 1915, at the passing of Mrs. Hunter, death separated the two who had been so closely attached for nearly twenty-five years after the death of her father.
Miss Hunter is a prominent member of the First Presbyterian Church of Stockton, and is active in its many benevolences. She is a member of the auxiliary of the San Joaquin County Pioneers. Intensely interested in ranching, she has been a keen student of progressive ideas and advance made in farming methods, and attributes her success to the selection of assistants in her extensive enterprise. In May, 1921, Miss Hunter accompanied the famous Lundy party on an extended travel tour of the British Isles and Continental Europe. Four months were occupied in the trip, the return being made September 17, 1921. While thus engaged, Miss Hunter made a side trip alone into Ireland, visiting the home in County Down, Ireland, in which occurred the birth of her grandmother, Jennie Mateer Magill; here she met old-time relatives and enjoyed their hospitality. Miss Hunter regards the trip from the standpoint of an education, and one which is never to be forgotten.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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