History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 441, Astoria Township
S. A. Hunter, cabinet-maker and undertaker, is a well-known
business man of Astoria. He was born in Washington Co., O., in
1851. His father, John M. Hunter, was born in Washington Co.,
Pa., and at the age of ten he accompanied his parents to Ohio, and at
Connellsville learned to trade of cabinet-making. While a
resident there he married Miss Nancy Shriver, and during the autumn of
1852 came to Astoria, where he is now engaged at cabinet-making.
Samuel acquired the trade in Astoria, proved an apt scholar, and is
to-day recongnized as one of the most skilled workmen in this
county. In 1875 he was united in marriage to Miss Olive McLellan,
a daughter of Robert McLellan, a former well-known agriculturist of
this county. They have one child, Mabel.
