Alva Roscoe Hunt

Alva Roscoe Hunt was born in Mattoon, Illinois and graduated from East Side High School in 1881. He attended Lee's Academy in Loxa, Illinois for one year. Hunt moved to Benson, Minnesota in 1886 where he studied law with S.H. Hudson and later worked for one year in the law office of T.F. Young. In the March of 1889, Alva was admitted to the bar in Montevideo after being examined in an open court before the Honorable Chief Justice of …