Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt


Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt was a prominent physician in Hartford, Connecticut.

Early life

Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt was born in Coventry, Connecticut. Hunt's parents were Dr. Eleazar Hunt and Sybil Hunt.
He was educated in the schools of Middletown, Connecticut and Amherst, Massachusetts 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, and physician to the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb.

Personal life

On June 13, 1848, he married Mary A. Crosby, a daughter of Daniel P. Crosby of Hartford. Together, Ebenezer and Mary were the parents of four children, including:
Hunt died in Hartford on May 2, 1889.

Legacy

The E. K. Hunt Chair of Anatomy at Yale University is named after him.

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