John Hunt Painter
American Quaker
About John Hunt Painter
Lived 1819 – 1891 (aged 71).
John Hunt Painter (September 3, 1819 – April 9, 1891) was a Quaker farmer living near Springdale, Iowa, who sent the firearms to abolitionist John Brown that were used during Brown's historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. Originally from Salem, Ohio, in 1849, John Hunt Painter moved to his farm near Springdale, a small Quaker community in Cedar County, Iowa.
Painter was an early settler of Pasadena, California, where, in 1888, he erected the La Pintoresca ("The Picturesque") hotel, a local landmark. In 1889 he was a pallbearer at the Pasadena funeral of Owen Brown, whom he knew from Iowa.
Painter died in 1891 and is buried Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena. Streets in both Pasadena and Whittier, California are named for Painter.
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Who was John Hunt Painter?
American Quaker (1819-1891)
When was John Hunt Painter born?
John Hunt Painter was born on 3 September 1819 in Salem.
When did John Hunt Painter die?
John Hunt Painter died on 9 April 1891.
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