Robert Menzo Hunt (1828 – July 15, 1902) was an American physician in the U.S. state of California.
[3] Immediately upon graduation, in 1850, he decided to go to California via the Isthmus of Panama, and upon arriving in California, he headed for the mines on an ox team from Sacramento to Nevada City, arriving about May 1, 1850.
He was engaged in mining and lumbering for about two years, and then went into the drug store business.
Hunt was married to Jennie Briggs whose sister, Susie, married Thomas Bard McFarland, also of Nevada City; McFarland was associate justice of the Supreme Court of California.
[4] After he died at Nevada City, in 1902, his ashes were returned to Utica, and placed in the family vault.