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WILLIAM W. HUNTER, funeral director and liveryman, McKeesport, was born in this county December 12, 1836, a son of James and Jane (Wilson) Hunter. His paternal grandfather, James Hunter, a native of Ireland, was a pioneer farmer near Library, Allegheny county, but in later life removed to Ohio, and died there. He had ten children: Thomas, James, John, William, George, Sally Mary, Nancy, Jane and Eliza. Of these James, a native of this county, and a blacksmith by trade, died in 1837. Of his four children, two survive: Ann (Mrs. George Phillips) and William W. William and Sarah (Carr) Wilson, the maternal grandparents of William W., were pioneers of Snowden township, this county. The subject of this sketch was reared and educated in Snowden township, and at the age of seventeen years went to Library, where he served an apprenticeship of three years at the cabinet-maker’s trade, after which he worked as a journeyman one year. He then embarked in business in Library, but after five years removed to Mifflin township, where, for a period, he carried on farming and undertaking. In 1866 he came to McKeesport, and embarked in his present business, in which he has since successfully continued. His only son, O. M. Hunter, was admitted as a partner in 1885. Mr. Hunter has been three times married; his first wife, Sarah A., daughter of Thomas and Jane (Woods) Kiddoo, of Snowden township, bore him two children — Orlanda M. and Sarah A. (died in infancy); his second wife was Sarah J. Douglass, and his present wife Susan N. Findley. Mr. Hunter is one of the leading and prominent citizens of McKeesport; is a director and stockholder of the People’s bank, and a member of the McKeesport Building & Loan association. He has served as burgess of McKeesport one term; is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; in politics a republican.