John Hunt Painter
American quaker
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| Intro | American quaker | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Cleric | |
| Work field | Religion | |
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| Birth | 3 September 1819, Salem, Ohio, U.S.A. | |
| Death | 9 April 1891 (aged 71 years) | |
| Star sign | Virgo |
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John Hunt Painter (September 3, 1819 - April 9, 1891) was a Quaker farmer living near Springdale, Iowa, who sent the firearms to abolitionist John Brown that were used during Brown's historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. John Hunt Painter was an early settler of Pasadena, California where, in 1888, he erected the La Pintoresca hotel, a local landmark. In 1849, John Hunt Painter moved to his farm near Springdale, a small Quaker community in Cedar County, Iowa.