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George W. Hunter was a shipping agent and commission merchant of Boston, Massachusetts. Born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Hunter had moved to Boston by 1855. The Boston Directory for that year shows that Hunter and Thomas W. Johnson were doing business at 6 Commercial Wharf as commission merchants under the name of Thomas L. DeWolf and Co. By 1860, the DeWolf name had been dropped, with their interests handled by the firm of Johnson, Hunter and Company at 5 Commercial Wharf. Five years later, the office was moved to 1 Commercial Wharf, where the successor firms of Hunter Ryder and Crawley (1869) and George W. Hunter & Co. (1870-1875?) conducted business. When the 1869 partnership broke up, Benjamin Crawley, possibly from Nova Scotia, opened his own office in Philadelphia. Hunter's last partner was George Lovitt, who may have been connected with the Lovitts of Yarmouth.
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Created - May 8, 2013
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