My Genealogy Hound

WILLIAM LIGHTCAP HUNTER, physician, post office Turtle Creek, was born Feb. 8, 1844, and is a grandson of Samuel Hunter, whose father was a pioneer settler in Unity township, Westmoreland county, Pa. Samuel, his son James and the subject of this sketch were born on the same farm. James married Annice Lightcap, a lady of Scotch descent, as are also the Hunters. After attending the academy at Elder’s Ridge, our subject read medicine with Dr. James McConaughy at Mt. Pleasant, and at the age of twenty-four entered on a course in chemistry and toxicology at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. After completing that course he attended Dr. Richard son’s school of pharmacy in Philadelphia, and then entered Jefferson Medical College of the latter city, from which he graduated in 1868. In the spring of the same year he began to practice in Turtle Creek, and now has a large and lucrative patronage. The doctor has also recently established a fine livery-stable for the benefit of his townsmen. With his family he is associated with the U. P. Church. Politically he is a republican. In 1870 Dr. Hunter was united in marriage with Rachel, daughter of John and Leonora McMasters. Her father owned and kept the Eagle hotel in Pittsburgh. Dr. Hunter’s children are Leonora and Annice Gale.