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HUNTER, ADELAIDE SOPHIA(Hoodless), educator and author; b. 27 Feb. (often given incorrectly as ) on a farm near St George in Brant County, Upper Canada, 12th child of David Hunter and Jane Hamilton; m. 15 Sept.

John Hoodless in Cainsville, near Brantford, and they had two sons and two daughters; d. 26 Feb. in Toronto, and was buried in Hamilton.

Little is known about Addie Hunter before she entered public life in , when she adopted the more formal Adelaide.

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Her paternal grandparents had migrated to Peel County in Upper Canada from County Monaghan (Republic of Ireland) in Her father died some four months before her birth. She appears to have received little education beyond elementary school.

Addie remained on the family farm until she and her husband moved in to Hamilton, where John Hoodless, the son of Joseph Hoodless, a prominent Hamilton furniture manufacturer, joined his father in business. At this time she converted from the Presbyterian