Short biographies of Edwin and William Hunt are included in the "A Little Montana History", Fort Benton, Montana, site:

EDWIN HUNT, P.-O. Fort Benton, was born in Orleans, N. Y., July 14, 1851. His parents moved to Lenawee county, Michigan, in 1855, thence to Eaton county, same state, in 1869 or 1870, and in 1874 he (our subject) went to Minnesota, thence to Wyoming, where he worked on the U. P. railroad, removing to Codnne, U. T., from which town he came to Montana. On his arrival here he was employed as ranchman in Beaverhead county, where he remained eighteen months; he next herded sheep in Deer Lodge county, and in 1877-8 he WAS cook at the stage station on the H. & D. L. road. Afterward he was connected with stage lines until 1883 when, with his partner, Mr. Richter, he opened a sheep ranch on the Teton river, fifty miles from Fort Benton.

WILLIAM H. HUNT, JR., member from Choteau Co. of the Constitutional Convention of 1884, was born in New Orleans in 1858, was educated at the German school and at Yale College- studied law at the Louisiana law school and in his fathers office, was admitted to the bar of Dakota in 1878, and has been practicing law at Fort Benton, M. T., since that year; was appointed collector of customs for Montana and Idaho by President Garfield, in l881; was a member of the Republican Convention at Helena in May, 1881; is the member from Choteau on the Territorial Republican Central Committee, and was a member of the judiciary committee of the convention of 1884. (Vide Pol. Pilot.)