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Mar 14, 1841 Westtown Township, Pennsylvania, United States Died on 08 Feb 1914 (aged 72)
US businessman and museum benefactor
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About William Hood Dunwoody
- William Hood Dunwoody (March 14, 1841 – February 8, 1914) was an American banker, miller, art patron and philanthropist.
- He was a partner in what is today General Mills and for thirty years a leader of Northwestern National Bank, today's Wells Fargo.Dunwoody sold American flour to British bakers, creating an export market and environment in which Minneapolis, Minnesota, became for a time the world's center of flour milling.
- By 1901, he was one of sixteen millionaires in Minneapolis.He is remembered today for his bequests that created the Dunwoody Institute (now the Dunwoody College of Technology), Abbott Hospital (now Allina Health), and The William Hood Dunwoody Fund of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
