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| Born | (1774-09-15)September 15, 1774 Vermont |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation(s) | Settler, Pioneer, Farmer, Legislator |
| Known for | Historical figure |
| Spouse | 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.
Early life
Hunkins was born in Vermont on September 15, 1774. He was the third son of Captain Robert Hunkins and his second wife, Lydia Chamberlin.
Career
In 1806 Hunkins was both a selectman and treasurer for the town of Navy, Vermont. From 1811 to 1812 Hunkins was Town Representative to the Vermont General Assembly for the town of Charleston, Vermont.
Personal life
Hunkins married Hannah Emerson on November 15, 1798. Emerson was the great-great-granddaughter of Hannah Emerson Duston, a colonial Massachusetts Puritan mother taken captive by Indians and escaped by scalping all ten of her captors. Emerson was a cousin of the essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Together, Hunkins and his wife had five sons:
- Sargeant Roger Hunkins, born March 12, 1802. He married Rebecca Whitcher (b. 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.
- James Hunkins
- Hazen Hastings Hunkins
Together, Hunkins and his wife had daughters that included:
- Carrie Arvilla Hunkins, who married Eugene W. Chafin
Robert H. Hunkins was the second cousin twice removed of Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier.
When the family moved from Vermont to Wisconsin Territory in 1839, Hunkins subsequently set up a large farm that he worked alongside sons James and Hazen. Prior to the move, his sons Sargeant, Robert, and Benjamin had already relocated to Wisconsin.
Hunkins died in New Berlin, Wisconsin in 1853. Both he and his wife are buried in the plot of his brother, the Hazen Hastings Hunkins plot, at Prairie Home Cemetery in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
References
- 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.
- ^ McKeen, Silas (1875). A History of Bradford, Vermont. J. D. Clark and Son. p. 207.
- Hemenway, p. 115
- Hemenway, p.114.
- 'Journals of the General Assembly of Vermont, General Assembly of Vermont convened at Montpelier on October 12, 1809, The Legislature: 1810, Sereno Wright, printer, pg. 3, 5
- ^ Hunkins, Hazen Hendricks (1961). Genealogical records of the Robert Hastings Hunkins family. University of Wisconsin. p. 4.
- Memorial and Biographical Record and Illustrated Compendium of Biography. Chicago: Geo. A. Ogle. 1899. p. 1101. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
- Quaife, Milo M., ed. (1919). The Convention of 1846. Publications of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Vol. 27. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. p. 778.
- Metcalf, Henry Harrison (1881). The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress, Volume 4. H.H. Metcalf. pp. 336–337.
- Hunkins, p.5.