Hunter came to central Iowa by the late 1890s as he was mentioned in the Iowa State Bystander as being in Colfax in 1897 helping to organize an Afro-American League in the unincorporated community of Marquisville in eastern Polk County. He was listed as a resident of Des Moines in the city directory for 1902. His occupation was stated as a janitor at the Polk County Courthouse by 1909.

Among his religious functions was to assist with a convention for Sunday Schools for African Baptists in the northwest in 1907. Hunter served as superintendent of the Maple Street Baptist Church in 1908 and choir director by 1918. A 1936 story reporting his death in the Des Moines Register noted he was “an active member of Maple Street Baptist Church.” He is buried in Glendale Cemetery.