Edward C. Hungerford (1827–1910), honored as a “Hero Carrying the Torch Forward” by the Chester Historical Society, was an abolitionist and a philanthropist. In the 1890s, he escaped a lynch mob in Orlando, Florida, after providing land and funds for the first Black school in central Florida, where Hungerford had a winter home. The 1897 “Hungerford School” successfully educated thousands of Black children through the mid-20th century.