My Genealogy Hound

ALFRED J. LUNT, the courteous and popular cashier of the Lake Shore National bank at Dunkirk, is a son of Thomas and Ann (Batchelor) Lunt, and was born in Dunkirk, Chautauqua county, New York, October 19, 1855. Thomas Lunt is a native of Liverpool, England, where he was born in 1829. When nineteen years old he decided to seek a home in America, and with this object in view came to the United States in 1848. He stopped in different places until 1850, when he came to Dunkirk which has since been his permanent home. For thirty-five years he was roadmaster of the Erie railway. He married Ann Batchelor, by whom he had six children. Mrs. Lunt is still living, and is sixty-three years of age. Both she and her husband are members of the Episcopal church. He is a democrat, and has served as street commissioner in Dunkirk, and is also a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Irondequoit Lodge, No. 291.

Alfred J. Lunt is an example of what any American boy, with a good constitution, may accomplish. He was reared in Dunkirk, and educated in the public schools of the city. His first experience in business life was gained in the post-office where he was employed for three years. From here he went to the Lake Shore National bank, first serving as its messenger. His work was characterized by the careful and systematic manner in which it was performed, and it could not help but reach the favorable attention of his superiors. Courteous and respectful in manner, he retained the good-will and advanced in the estimation of his employers until, when a vacancy presented, he was advanced to fill it. Here, again, application to the work before him was observable, and this was a distinguishing feature through life. In 1883, when the bank needed a cashier, and the question was asked, “Who shall we get?” the answer met the eye when it fell on him. Mr. Lunt received the appointment because he deserved it and was prepared to fill it. Thus at the age of twenty-eight he was the executive manager of one of the strongest financial institutions in southwestern New York.

In 1884 Mr. Lunt married Dora Popple, daughter of Alexander W. Popple, a citizen of Dunkirk, and they have two interesting children, Helen and Gurney.

He is a member of the Episcopal church, one of its vestrymen, and has attained to the thirty-second degree in the Dunkirk Lodge, No. 767, Free and Accepted Masons. We were about to say that Mr. Lunt was a fortunate man, but his good fortune came because he was possessed of sterling qualities of integrity and social qualities of good fellowship, which, combined and intelligently administered, will bring good fortune to any man. He is a representative citizen of Dunkirk, esteemed by the business men, and admired by society. He is treasurer of the board of water works of the City of Dunkirk, of the Dunkirk wagon company, and of the F. & A. M.