Lunt, Jason L. bio

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 444-445, Astoria Township
J. L. Lunt, farmer, sec. 22; P. O., Astoria. On the 9th of Nov., 1842, Jason L. Lunt arrived at Sharpe's Landing, Fulton Co., later he made his way to Woodland township, and purchased a quarter-section of land, and 6 years later moved into Astoria township. He is a native of Maine, where he was born Oct. 27, 1810. His father, Rufus Hunt, was born in the same State, where he followed farming and there married Mrs. Ruth Smith, also a native of Maine and and whose ancestry were among the pioneers of New England. Of this marriage 10 children were born, and what is remarkable, all are living at the present writing. At the early age of 16 Jason shipped on board a merchant-vessel, making two voyages to Europe, and subsequently became employed in a woolen mill. Attaining his majority he again shipped before the mast, this time on Lake Erie. For several years he led a somewhat roving life, and finally, in 1842, set foot in old Fulton, where he has accumulated wealth as a farmer. In 1845 he was married to Miss Jane Darrell of Kennebunk, Me.
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