Biographical dates - Period of existence1832 - 1910
Other InformationAfter working for a time in his father's shipping business, he "retired to devote himself to historical and antiquarian studies and to acquiring a distinguished library ... and the management of trusts." [From Walsh, v. 5, p. 31]. His books were inherited by his son, James Melville Hunnewell, and placed at Harvard in 1919. He documented most of his purchases in an annotated copy of a catalogue privately printed in 1873.
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Biographical dates - Period of existence1832 - 1910
Other InformationAfter working for a time in his father's shipping business, he "retired to devote himself to historical and antiquarian studies and to acquiring a distinguished library ... and the management of trusts." [From Walsh, v. 5, p. 31]. His books were inherited by his son, James Melville Hunnewell, and placed at Harvard in 1919. He documented most of his purchases in an annotated copy of a catalogue privately printed in 1873.
Other Identifierhttp://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp01427438