John Hunt Painter (September 3, 1819 – April 9, 1891) was a

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farmer living near Springdale, Iowa, who sent the firearms to abolitionist

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that were used during Brown's historic

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in 1859. Originally from

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, in 1849, John Hunt Painter moved to his farm near Springdale, a small Quaker community in

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. Painter was an early settler of

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where, in 1888, he erected the ''La Pintoresca'' ("The Picturesque") hotel, a local landmark.Valentine, Maggie (1984)
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at the Pasadena funeral of Owen Brown, whom he knew from Iowa. Painter died in 1891 and is buried Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena. Streets in both Pasadena and Whittier, California are named for Painter.

References and notes

References

*Aurner, Clarence Ray (editor) (1910). ''A topical history of Cedar County, Iowa''. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Volume I. *Hunt, Charles Cummins (1906). ''A genealogical history of the Robert and Abigail Pancoast Hunt family.'' Columbus, Ohio: Champlin Press. *Jones, Louis Thomas (1914). ''The Quakers of Iowa''. Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa. *Reid, Hiram Alvin (1895). ''History of Pasadena''. Pasadena: Pasadena History Co., Publishers. *Wood, J. W. (1917). ''Pasadena, California''. Published by the author.

External links

"Early Views of Pasadena"Find a Grave memorial for John Hunt PainterOwen Brown at Pasadena, California
{{DEFAULTSORT:Painter, John Hunt 1819 births 1891 deaths American Quakers John Brown (abolitionist) People from Cedar County, Iowa People from Salem, Ohio People from Pasadena, California Burials at Mountain View Cemetery (Altadena, California)