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Hunter, assistant treasurer of the Hart-
ford Trust Company, has risen to the po-
sition which he now occupies.
He was born March 8, 1874, in Hart-
ford, son of John Scott and Mary (Allen)
Hunter, and his entire life has been spent
there. He prepared for entrance to Phil-
lips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts,
at the old "South" School, now the
Chauncey Harris School. He is also a
graduate of the Military Academy at
Cheshire. Upon completing the courses
at these institutions, he entered the em-
ploy of the Hartford Trust Company, as
messenger, and has faithfully worked his
way upward to his present office of assistant
treasurer. Mr. Hunter occupies a
high place in the esteem of his fellow-
citizens and is prominent in the city's
affairs. At the organization of the City
Club, he was chosen as its first treasurer.
He has also served in that office for the
Hartford Dispensary, and holds the office
of auditor with that institution at the
present time. He is a member of the
Hartford Golf Club, and finds his recrea-
tion in outdoor life.
Mr. Hunter married Leila May Clark,
of Windsor Locks, and resides on High-
land street, West Hartford.
HASTINGS, Wells Southworth,
Author.
A native of New Haven, Connecticut,
Mr. Hastings is descended from one of
the most prominent families of Massachusetts
and New York. The name Hastings
is older than the Norman Conquest
in England. It was spelled Hastang also.
The castle and seaport of Hastings were
owned by the family that adopted the
surname as early as 911, before the Normans
were in Gaul. There was a Danish
pirate, not of this family, perhaps, who
was a formidable foe of the Saxons occu-
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pying a part of Sussex. In nearly every
county of England the family has estab-
lished itself. Branches bearing coats-ofarms
are found at Agmondisham, Buck-
shire ; in Dorsetshire and Leicestershire
in Cambridgeshire ; in Gloucestershire
and Derbyshire ; in Ireland : at Billesby,
Lincolnshire ; at Hinton, Northamptonshire
; in Nottinghamshire and North
Cumberland ;
in Staffordshire, Yorkshire,
Oxfordshire and in Scotland. Of the num-
erous coats-of-arms of Hastings, the
American branch claims the following:
Arms—A maunch sable.
Crest—A buffalo's head erased sable, crowned
and gored with a ducal coronet and armed or.
Supporters—Two man-tigers affrontee or,
their visages resembling the human face proper.
Motto In virtue victoria. Also Honorantes
me honorabo.
A plate on which this armorial was engraved
was brought to this country by
the pioneer. On one side were the arms
given above and an antique ship with
two flags. Three lions passant, guard-
ant in pale, and on the reverse of the seal
St. Michael slaying the dragon.
The ancestor of the family in this
country was Deacon Thomas Hastings,
born in England in 1605, who embarked
on the ship "Elizabeth" at Ipswich, Eng-
land, William Andrews, Master, April 10,
1634. He settled at Watertown, Massa-
chusetts, where he was made a freeman,
May 6, 1635, filled many town offices, was
deputy to the General Court, long held
the office of deacon, and died in 1685, aged
eighty years. He left an estate of four
hundred and twenty-one pounds. His
home was on the west side of School
street, then called Hill street, which was
bequeathed to his son, Samuel. His wife,
Susannah, died February 2, 1650, and he
married in April, 165 1, Margaret Cheney,
daughter of William and Martha Cheney,
of Roxbury, Massachusetts.
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