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Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
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Jonathan C. Stoughton (1820-1900) was a native of New England who, through early choice of the ministry as a profession, received a good education. He settled at Aurora, Illinois in 1848, joining the Bock River Conference. He held several pastorates in the state one of them being in Chicago at the Grace Methodist church. His chief interests were in education and in temperance and being a speaker of ability and able in dealing with men, he made himself felt in both lines. Dr. Charles A. Hunt was a native of Trenton, New Jersey. He studied medicine at Springfield and Cincinnati, Ohio, and came to Urbana in the fall of 1855. He suggested the donation of the UrbanaChampaign Institute to the state for the new university and his name headed a petition from Champaign County citizens to the legislature in 1861, Dr. Hunt entered the Army in 1862 as a physician and died in the U. S. General Hospital at Mound City, 111., 1863, from overwork and exposure.
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