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Hunt, Ida Totten, 1861-1907
Person · 1861-1907

Ida Frances Totten was born on February 21, 1861, to Benjamin Totten and Harriet Monks Totten in Sussex County, New Jersey. She attended Andover Academy and received several county teachers certificates. According to her diary, in the autumn of 1883, she was placed in a teaching position in Greenville (now called Greendell) School, in Green Township, Sussex County, about 5 miles from her home in Andover. On April 4, 1894, she married Fred Mortimer Hunt, who served as one of the first editors of the Signal newspaper and graduated from the New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton in 1889. They had several children, though only two lived to adulthood (Leroy and Helen). They lived in Spring Lake, New Jersey, where Fred taught before becoming a clerk. Ida died in her mid-40s on October 27, 1907, and was buried in Andover alongside Fred who died in 1928.