Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt | |
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| Born | August 26, 1810 |
| Died | May 2, 1889 (aged 78) |
| 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]
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.
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).
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]
Hunt died in Hartford on May 2, 1889.
The E. K. Hunt Chair (i.e., Professorship) of Anatomy at Yale University is named after him. [8]
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[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.
