PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE; February 23, 1963. Mrs. Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, known for her accomplishments in horticulture and botany, died yesterday (Feb. 22) at West Penn Hospital. She was 80. Mrs. Hunt, whose home was at 4875 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside, was the wife of Roy Arthur Hunt, chairman of the executive committee of Aluminum Co. of America. Services for Mrs. Hunt will be Monday at 2 p.m. at the Church of the Ascension, Ellsworth Avenue and N. Neville Street, Oakland. Burial will be private.

A daughter of Mortimer and Rachel McMasters Miller, Mrs. Hunt was born at Turtle Creek, Pa., and attended Thurston School in Pittsburgh and Miss Mittleburger's School in Cleveland. She was married to Mr. Hunt on June 11, 1913, in the Church of the Ascension, of which she was a life member. Mrs. Hunt was a member of more than 30 horticultural and botanical organizations here and abroad. Her collection of books, prints, paintings, autograph letters and manuscripts was recognized as the world's largest private collection of botanical and gardening literature when she presented it to Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1961. The collection comprises the Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library which is located in the penthouse of the Hunt Library she and her husband gave to Carnegie Tech. 

She was instrumental in founding numerous organizations in the fields of horticulture and literature. She was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Legal Letters by the University of Pittsburgh in 1954 and the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Carnegie Tech in 1960. Mrs. Hunt was honorary vice president of the American Horticultural Society in 1956. She was active in the Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania, the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, a trustee of the Associates of the Yale Medical Library and the John Carter Brown Library of Brown University. 

Mrs. Hunt was the author of many books and scores of papers in the fields of horticulture and literature. She lectured widely in those subjects for many years. She also was a member of Pittsburgh Golf Club, Twentieth Century Club, Rolling Rock Club, Allegheny Country Club, Fox Chapel Golf Club and the Cosmopolitan and Colony Clubs of New York City. Surviving besides her husband are four sons, Alfred M., Torrence M., and Roy A. Hunt, Jr., of Pittsburgh, and Dr. Richard McM. Hunt, a teacher at Harvard University; her brother, Torrence Miller; and 11 grandchildren.