According to the Internet source given below, Charles H. Hunter was a blind white American pioneer ragtime pianist and composer. Born almost totally blind in Columbia, Tennessee, he trained as a piano tuner at the Nashville School for the Blind and then worked at Jesse French Piano Company, also in Nashville, in that trade. Being a self-taught pianist he readily assimilated the Nashville simple country folk music into his compositions without any "classical" graces and ornamentation. His employers sent him to St Louis in 1902 where, very much like Louis Chauvin, he lead a dissolute life ultimately quitting his job to spend all his time in a life of wine, woman and ragtime. Only just before his untimely death did he attempt to reform himself and married late in 1905. Just six weeks later he died of tuberculosis shortly before his 30th birthday. His last work was the hopelessly optimistic "Back to Life" which was acquired surprisingly by the New York publisher, Charles K. Harris.

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	Charles H. Hunter	Biography and list of works by "Perfessor" Bill Edwards