Name/Title
Hundley, John B., Portrait Photo, c. 1880Entry/Object ID
P1992.1H.44Description
Hundley, John B., Portrait Photo, c. 1880. b/w. Photo of Hundley as older man with white hair, beard & mustache, wearing dark silk 3-piece suite, white shirt with high collar, and thing crossed dark tie. His right hand is tucked inside this coat, Napoleon-style. Head/shoulders view.
Hundley came to St. Joseph in 1864 & founded a wholesale boot & shoe business. In 1867 he was Director of Thomas Tootle's First National Bank. He contributed significantly to a new Methodist Church at 22nd & Colhoun Street (in 2020 Calvary Baptist congregation), that they named Hundley chapel after him. He had ten children. Hundley gave the YWCA, Hundley House near 10th & Felix in memory of daughter Nora. He purchased the pillared plantation style home of R.L. McDonald, Oakwood Place, on Rochester Rd, as his residence c 1880. He also bought the 6-story McDonald wholesale house at 4th & Francis as home for the firm of McKinney, Hundley, & Walker, adding dry goods to his boots & shoes. He died in 1896, then in business as Kemper, Hundley & McDonald.
See Museum Graphic, Winter, 1956, Vol. 8, No. 1
Original digital scan located on History CD 02.Made/Created
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