When he was a young attorney, Graham P. Hunt Jr. would drive his Volkswagen Beetle — with a canoe on top — to his office on Fourth Street downtown and park for free at the public landing, then behind Second Street.

        When the landing closed to accommodate the new stadiums, he parked in Covington and walked across the bridge to work.

        He spent most of his evenings in his Clifton home, reading from the letters of his great-great-grandfather.

        Mr. Hunt, a former U.S. magistrate, died Thursday at Deaconess Hospital.

        The lifelong Clifton resident was 93.

        “He was an encyclopedia of Cincinnati history,” said his niece, Katy Kern of Liberty Township.

        Ms. Kern said her uncle, an avid outdoorsman, spent most of his spare time canoeing or hiking.

        “He'd go to the most remote river in Canada; he had canoed most of Kentucky's rivers,” Ms. Kern said.

        After graduating from Walnut Hills High School, Mr. Hunt earned a bachelor's degree at Brown University. He graduated with a law degree from the University of Cincinnati's College of Law.

        After law school, Mr. Hunt practiced general law alongside his father, before being drafted by the U.S. Army to serve in World War II, stationed stateside, in Rosencrantz, Calif.

        Honorably discharged in 1946, Mr. Hunt returned to Cincinnati and resumed work with his father.

        In the 1950s, after his father's death, he began his own downtown law firm.

        Mr. Hunt was appointed a U.S. Commissioner in the early 1960s and took cases until late in his life.

        His niece, Ms. Kern, said he never really retired.

        Mr. Hunt was a longtime member of the Cincinnati Bar Association, the Sierra Club, Cincinnati Tennis Club, Progressive Hikers, Hog Killers, the Swedenborgian Church, First Families of Hamilton County, The Society of Colonial Wars, and the Neahtawanta Association.

        He was also a longtime adviser to the American Youth Hostel Association.

        Mr. Hunt was preceded in death by two sisters, Frances Stillwell and Grace Mendenhall Hunt.

        In addition to his niece, survivors include his sister, Margaret Stewart of Clifton; and nieces and nephews.

        A graveside service will be 3 p.m. Wednesday at Spring Grove Cemetery, Winton Road and Spring Grove Avenue.

        Memorials: Peninsula Township Fire and Life Squad, Traverse City, Mich. 49686.

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