Hunter em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca in 1817, and en­tered Mad­i­son Coll­ege in 1830. For some time he ed­it­ed the Con­fer­ence Jour­nal and the Christ­ian Ad­vo­cate. In 1855, he be­came Pro­fess­or of He­brew at Al­le­ghe­ny Coll­ege. He la­ter be­came min­is­ter of the Meth­od­ist Epis­co­pal Church in Al­li­ance, Stark Coun­ty, Ohio. He wrote some 125 hymns, and ed­it­ed:

• Select Mel­o­dies (Pitts­burgh, Penn­syl­van­ia: 1838-1851)
• Minstrel of Zi­on, 1845
• Songs of De­vo­tion, 1859

• Hughes, p. 443
• Julian, p. 543

1. Great Phy­si­cian, The
2. Hallowed Spot, The
3. Home in Hea­ven, A
4. Joyfully, Joy­ful­ly On­ward I Move
5. I’m Go­ing Home
6. Soon Shall We See the Glor­i­ous Morn­ing
7. Who Shall For­bid Our Grate­ful Woe!