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Show UIO0RAPHIOAL. Joseph Smith fleeter was born in Clark Mnnnan, Scotland, on theSUthof November. liMJ. His father was Joseph Hunter, and ljls mother was Elizabeth Davidson. Ilecimwlth his parents to America in JMO.and to Cedar City, Utah In 185:!, liaTicc 'n the menntlmo lost his mother. He was baptized into tho church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints wtiCO tut ten ycarB old. In thoso curly days the chances of ob-talnln'' ob-talnln'' an edrfcatlon were very -poor and Ilro. Hunter did not get much schooling wJAleaboy, but aftor ho be-camo be-camo a man he attended the 1J. Y. Academy ut Provo, nrt added very materially ma-terially to his stock of soholabtlo learning, learn-ing, so that he was above the average of men of his jeaflki hhhoine town In this respect. In 1S64 he married Miss Eliza Piunock who became the mother of his eight children, all of whom uro living but one. -1 " 883-3 ho filled u faithful missiQULl.othfc boulhern states. Rro. Hunter wiU member of the lo-eal lo-eal school honr4'fr ,x number of years, and wus agulu'clected to that position less than a month ago. He hns been for years a member of the high council of the l'arowan Stake of 'ion, In which ofllec, as in as in all others thatheheld, he gave full satisfaction. There aro fow men in tho community better liked and moic respected than was the subject sub-ject of this brief notice. |