Editing Ward Hunt (section)

==Early life, family and education==
Hunt was the son of Montgomery James Hunt (d. 1871), long-time cashier of the Bank of [[Utica, New York|Utica]], and Elizabeth ([[née]] Stringham) Hunt.<ref name= "litchfieldhistoricalsociety">{{cite web |title=Ward E. Hunt |url= https://www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/ledger/students/1320|website= litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org| publisher=[[Litchfield Law School|Litchfield Historical Society]] |access-date=6 April 2018|archive-date=8 February 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180208004838/http://www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/ledger/students/1320|url-status=live}}</ref> Ward attended the [[Oxford, New York|Oxford]] and [[Hobart and William Smith Colleges|Geneva]] Academies<ref name= "litchfieldhistoricalsociety"/> and was a classmate of [[Horatio Seymour]]. He attended [[Hamilton College]] in 1827, then transferred to [[Union College]] in 1828,<ref name= "litchfieldhistoricalsociety"/> where he was an early member of the [[Kappa Alpha Society]]. 

After graduating with honors in 1828,<ref name= "litchfieldhistoricalsociety"/> he subsequently studied law with Judge James Gould at [[Litchfield Law School]] in [[Litchfield, Connecticut]] and with [[Hiram Denio]] in Utica, and was admitted to the [[Bar (law)|bar]] in 1831.<ref name= "litchfieldhistoricalsociety"/><ref name= "supremecourthistory">{{cite web |title= Timeline of the Court – Ward Hunt| url= https://www.supremecourthistory.org/timeline_hunt.html |website= supremecourthistory.org |publisher= The Supreme Court Historical Society |access-date=6 April 2018|archive-date=7 October 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181007040036/https://www.supremecourthistory.org/timeline_hunt.html|url-status=live}}</ref>