Robert Hastings Hunkins
| Robert Hastings Hunkins | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 15, 1774 Vermont |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation | Settler, Pioneer, Farmer, Legislator |
| Known for | Historical figure |
| Denomination | Methodist[1] |
| Spouse(s) | Hannah Emerson |
| Children | 6 verified, including Benjamin Hunkins |
| Parent(s) | Captain Robert Hunkins and Lydia Chamberlain |
| Relatives | Eugene W. Chafin |
Robert Hastings Hunkins (September 15, 1774 – 1853) was an American politician. He was an early settler of the Wisconsin territory and served in the Vermont House of Representatives.
Biography
Hunkins was born in Vermont on September 15, 1774, the third son of Captain Robert Hunkins and his second wife, Lydia Chamberlin.[2][lower-alpha 1]
In 1806 Hunkins was both a selectman and treasurer for the town of Navy, Vermont.[4] From 1811 to 1812 Hunkins was Town Representative to the Vermont General Assembly for the town of Charleston, Vermont.[5][6] In 1811, the Vermont General Assembly was an unicameral legislature; in 1836, the Vermont Senate was added and the Vermont General Assembly became a bicameral legislature.[7]
Three of Hunkins' sons, Sargeant, Robert and Benjamin, moved to the Wisconsin Territory. In 1839 Hunkins followed them and set up a large farm that he worked alongside his two other sons James and Hazen.[8]
Hunkins died in New Berlin, Wisconsin in 1853.[2] He was buried in the plot of his brother, the Hazen Hastings Hunkins plot, at Prairie Home Cemetery in Waukesha, Wisconsin.[9]
Family
On November 15, 1798 Hunkins married Hannah, the daughter of Watts Emerson and Lois Trussel.[lower-alpha 2] They had five sons:[10]
- Sargeant Roger Hunkins (born March 12, 1802), who married Rebecca Whitcher (born September 6, 1807) on September 25, 1825;
- Robert W. Hunkins;
- Benjamin Hunkins, born 1810. Benjamin was called twice to service in the territorial legislature of Wisconsin. He was a delegate to the first constitutional convention of Wisconsin and served in the State Legislature in 1860;[11]
- James Hunkins;
- Hazen Hastings Hunkins
and some daughters, including:
- Carrie Arvilla Hunkins, who married Eugene W. Chafin.
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References
- ↑ Robert H. Hunkins was the second cousin twice removed of Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier.[3]
- ↑ Along with being a cousin of essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hannah Emerson was the great-great-granddaughter of Hannah Duston, a colonial Massachusetts Puritan taken captive by Indians.[8]
- ↑ Hemenway, Abby Maria, ed. (1877). The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military, Vol. 3: Orleans and Rutland Counties. Claremont, NH: Claremont Manufacturing Company. p. 115. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
- 1 2 McKeen, Rev. Silas (1875). Bradford, Vermont (in German). J. D. Clark and Son. p. 207. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
- ↑ Metcalf, Henry Harrison (1881). The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress. 4. H.H. Metcalf. pp. 336–337.
- ↑ Hemenway 1877, p. 115.
- ↑ Hemenway 1877, p. 114.
- ↑ Vermont Legislature (1810). Journals of the General Assembly of Vermont, General Assembly of Vermont convened at Montpelier on October 12, 1809. Sereno Wright, printer. pp. 3, 5.
- ↑ Wayne State University School of Public Works and Social Works-American Experiences With Unicameral Legislatures, IV. Unicameralism in Vermont, pg. 9-12
- 1 2 Hunkins, Hazen Hendricks (1961). Genealogical records of the Robert Hastings Hunkins family. University of Wisconsin. p. 4.
- ↑ Hunkins 1961, p. 5.
- ↑ Geo. A. Ogle & Co (1899). Memorial and Biographical Record and Illustrated Compendium of Biography: Containing a Compendium of Local Biography, Including Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and Representative Citizens of Butler, Polk, Seward, York and Fillmore Counties, Nebraska, with a Review of Their Life Work... Also a Compendium of National Biography. G.A. Ogle & Company. p. 1101. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
- ↑ Quaife, Milo Milton (1919). The Convention of 1846. Constitutional series: Publications of the ... / Collections. 27. State Historical Society of Wisconsin. p. 778. Retrieved 29 March 2015.