Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt

Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt
Born	(1810-08-26)August 26, 1810 Coventry, Connecticut
Died	May 2, 1889(1889-05-02) (aged 78) Hartford, Connecticut
Alma mater	Yale College Jefferson Medical College
Spouse	Mary A. Crosby ​ ​ (after 1848)​

Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt (often called E. K. Hunt) (August 26, 1810 - May 2, 1889) ^[1] was a prominent physician in Hartford, Connecticut. ^[2]

Early life

Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt was born in Coventry, Connecticut. Hunt's parents were Dr. Eleazar Hunt (1786-1867) and Sybil (née Pomeroy) Hunt (1789-1876).

He was educated in the schools of Middletown, Connecticut and Amherst, Massachusetts ^[3] and graduated from Yale College in 1833, where he was a member of the Linonian Society. He studied medicine at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, receiving his M.D. in 1838.

Career

Hunt became a prominent physician in Hartford, President of the Connecticut State Medical Society in 1864 and 1865, director and medical visitor of the Connecticut Retreat for the Insane (now called The Institute of Living), and physician to the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb (now called the American School for the Deaf).

Personal life

Hunt's wife, Mary Crosby Hunt.

On June 13, 1848, he married Mary A. Crosby (1826–1893), a daughter of Daniel P. Crosby of Hartford. Together, Ebenezer and Mary were the parents of four children, including: ^[4]

• Louise Hunt, ^[5] who married J. Benjamin Dimmick (1858–1920). ^[4]
• Jeannette Hunt, who married George Goodwin Williams. ^{[6] [7]}
• Sarah Crosby Hunt (1849–1853), who died young. ^[4]
• Mary Sibyl Hunt (1852–1855), who died young. ^[4]

Hunt died in Hartford on May 2, 1889.

Legacy

The E. K. Hunt Chair (i.e., Professorship) of Anatomy at Yale University is named after him. ^[8]

Published works

• Hunt, Ebenezer Kingsbury; Goodrich, Chauncey Enoch (1858). A Biographical Sketch of Amariah Brigham, M.D., late superintendent of the New York State Lunatic Asylum, Utica, N.Y. Utica, New York: W. O. McClure. ISBN   978-0-7950-0780-4 . Retrieved 2011-07-13. Concerning the American psychiatrist Amariah Brigham
• Hunt, Ebenezer Kingsbury. Biographical sketch of George Sumner, M.D. (Sumner was Professor of Botany at Washington College in 1829 and President of the Connecticut State Medical Society in 1849)
• Esquirol, Étienne (1845) [1838 (original French edition)]. Mental maladies; a treatise on insanity. Translated from the French by Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard. Retrieved 2011-07-13.
• Esquirol, Étienne (2011-05-23). Mental maladies; treatise on insanity. Translated from the French by Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt. Charleston, South Carolina: Nabu Press. ISBN   978-1-172-76513-3. A reprint of the 1845 book.

See also

• Biography portal
• Psychology portal
• Connecticut portal

• Psychiatric hospital
• History of psychiatric institutions

References

1. Kingsbury, Frederick John (1905). Talcott, Mary Kingsbury (ed.). The genealogy of the descendants of Henry Kingsbury, of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company. p. 246. Retrieved 2011-07-13.
2. Kelly, Howard A.; Burrage, Walter L. (eds.). "Hunt, Ebenezer Kingsbury"  . American Medical Biographies  . Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company.
3. Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1918). Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, Volume 8. New York City: D. Appleton & Company. p. 130. Retrieved 2011-07-13.
4. Kingsbury, Frederick John (1905). The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury, of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. Hartford Press. p.  246 . Retrieved 20 February 2019.
5. Pennsylvania, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of (1907). Register of Pennsylvania Society of the Colonial Dames of America. p.  46 . Retrieved 20 February 2019.
6. Revolution, Sons of the American; Cornish, Louis Henry; Clark, Alonzo Howard (1902). A National Register of the Society, Sons of the American Revolution. Press of A. H. Kellogg. p.  230 . Retrieved 20 February 2019.
7. Wilson, Woodrow; Link, Arthur Stanley (1980). The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Princeton University Press. p. 274.
8. Catalogue of Yale University, 1908-09. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University. 1908. p. 466. Retrieved 2011-07-13. [The Ebenezer K. Hunt endowment fund] was founded in 1896 by a bequest of twenty-five thousand dollars from Mrs. E. K. Hunt as an endowment of the Chair of Anatomy in memory of Ebenezer K. Hunt, M.D., a graduate of Yale College in 1833.

External links

• Works by or about Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt at the Internet Archive
• Connecticut State Medical Society
• Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt at Find a Grave