their three sons and their friends spent much of their time here. Mr. Hunt was a member of Congress from New Orleans in 1882 and a distinguished lawyer and professor of law in that city for many years. Born on January first, 1836 he died on August fourteenth 1921 at, New Orleans. His sister Louise had died before him. Maturin Livingston Delafield had died on the fifth of November, 1917, before Mr. Hunt, so that Montgomery Place passed in August 1921 under Mr. Delafield's will and under the will of Mrs. Barton to his third son John Ross Delafield. He is descended on his father's side from Gertrude wife
of General Morgan Lewis and sister of Mrs. Montgomery and of Edward Livingston, and on his mother's side from Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, the brother of Mrs. Montgomery and of Edward Livingston. So the property and all the interesting things it contains are still owned by those as nearly related in blood as can be to the former owners. With the growing wealth of our country many more magnificent homes have been built in different parts of our country, but the charm of Montgomery Place endears it to those who know it and depends in no small degree on its age and associations.
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