Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt

Who was Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt?

Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt was a prominent physician in Hartford, Connecticut. Hunt's parents were Dr. Eleazar Hunt and Sybil Hunt. Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt was born in Coventry, Connecticut and educated in the schools of Middletown, Connecticut and Amherst, Massachusetts and graduated from Yale College in 1833, where he was a member of the Linonian Society. He studied medicine at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, receiving his M.D. in 1838. Hunt became a prominent physician in Hartford, President of the Connecticut State Medical Society in 1864 and 1865, director and medical visitor of the Connecticut Retreat for the Insane, and physician to the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. In 1848 he married Mary A. Crosby of Hartford. Ebenezer and Mary had four children. Hunt died in Hartford on May 2, 1889.

The E. K. Hunt Chair of Anatomy at Yale University is named after Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt.