Abbie Jane Hunter

Abigail Jane Hunter (1855–???) was a businesswoman and real estate developer in Carmel-by-the-Sea. Early life

Hunter was born in San Francisco, California, in 1855. She was the daughter of J. Gillet Goldsmith. and Annie Johnston (1820-1898). She married John J. Hunter on September 6, 1876 in San Francisco, and lived on 355 First Street. They had one child, Wesley R. Hunter (1876-1966), who was born on February 12, 1876, at San Francisco’s Hunters Point, named for his father. The Hunters were divorced on September 4, 1903, in San Francisco.

Professional background Carmel City

In December 1889, Abbie Hunter bought 7 lots in Carmel City from Duckworth.

Hunter, of 355 First Street, was arrested in February 1892, when Duckworth brought charges of embezzlement. Duckworth said that Hunter was collecting money for her own use on property sold on the installment plan and that she had formed a conspiracy against Duckworth. It was also said that she transferred all her property to her mother, Annie Goldsmith.

In February 1895, Hunter was apprehended and arrested in San Francisco on a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses and failing to produce a deed to a client, Mary O'Donnell, who had bought a lot in the Sunnyside tract of San Francisco. Hunter was released on $3000 bail. The San Francisco court dropped the charges, but the bank foreclosed on her home in Carmel-by-the-Sea on Guadalupe Street and 4th Avenue.

Carmel-by-the-Sea

In 1892, Hunter sent out a bulk mailing postcard promoting Carmel-by-the-Sea instead of a Catholic retreat: