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Worth and Wealth: a Collection of Maxims, Morals and Miscellanies for Merchants and Men of Business
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Freeman Hunt was an American publisher and editor.
Background
Hunt was born in Quincy, Massachussets, in 1804. He was a descendant of Enoch Hunt of Bucks County, England, who came to America and settled in Weymouth, Massachussets, some time before 1652, and the youngest child of was a descendant of Enoch Hunt of Bucks County, England, who came to America and settled in Weymouth, Massachussets, some time before 1652, and the youngest child of Nathan and Mary (Turner) Hunt. His father, a shipbuilder by trade, died when Freeman was three years old.
Career
He was only twelve when he left home for Boston to become an office boy for the Boston Evening Gazette. After learning the printer's trade, he entered the employ of the American Traveller, afterward called the Boston Daily Traveller. Somewhat later the editor, in tracing the source of some commendable anonymous contributions, found to his surprise that they were written by his young workman, Hunt; thereafter, the lad's worth received recognition by rapid advancement.
In 1828, however, he decided to go into the publishing business with John Putnam, and under the firm name of Putnam & Hunt they continued the publication of the Juvenile Miscellany, edited by Lydia Maria Child. The firm also furthered the candidacy of Jackson by publishing a newspaper, the Jackson Republican, a sheet which did not long survive; it issued the first woman's magazine of any consequence in the United States, the Ladies' Magazine, begun in January 1828; and in 1830 published American Anecdotes in two volumes, prepared by Hunt.
The partnership with Putnam dissolved, Hunt for the next few years was associated with various ventures: the Penny Magazine; the establishment in New York of a short-lived weekly newspaper, the New York Traveller; and the Boston Bewick Company, composed of authors, artists, printers, and booksellers united for the purpose of cooperative publishing, whose magazine, the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, Hunt for a time edited. Later, in New York, Freeman Hunt & Company brought out, among other books, Letters about the Hudson River and Its Vicinity (1836), which went through at least three editions.
Thus far in his career, Hunt's son says, he had felt "a certain dissatisfaction with what he had accomplished, and a desire to do something in a literary way beyond merely transient and occasional writing, and which might prove of lasting benefit to his fellow man". After a survey of the periodical literature of the day, he saw an opening for a magazine in a field as yet untouched. There was not, he discovered, a single magazine to represent the claims of commerce. Accordingly, with the encouragement and financial aid of friends, and the energetic exercise of his own business ability, he established a periodical of this character. It was known as the Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review until 1850, and from then until 1860, when the original name was resumed, as Hunt's Merchants' Magazine. For nineteen years his time and energies were largely concentrated upon the development of this child of his brain. He even directed it from his bedside during his last sickness, and when the March 1858 number was placed in his hand the day before he died, he smiled and remarked: "This work has been my hobby in life and my hobby in death". He also published during this later period, Lives of American Merchants (2 vols. , 1858), and Wealth and Worth, a Collection of Maxims, Morals and Miscellanies for Merchants and Men of Business (1856).
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Politics
He was always interested in politics and, good New Englander that he was, strongly favored the abolition of slavery.
Connections
He was married, first, May 6, 1829, to Lucia Weld Blake, who died ten months later; second, January 2, 1831, to Laura Faxon Phinney, who died in 1851; and third, October 1853, to Elizabeth Thompson Parmenter.