John Crosby III was an American businessman. Crosby was a founding partner of the Washburn-Crosby Company, the forerunner to General Mills.
William Hood Dunwoody was an American banker, merchant, miller, art patron and philanthropist. He was a partner in what is today General Mills and for thirty years a leader of Northwestern National Ba
Portrait of William Hood Dunwoody by Julian Russell Story (1911)
Dunwoody attended the Hood Octagonal School, built by his father, James Dunwoody, in 1842.
The Arctic and Union mills are at left (pictured in 1878).
Washburn, Crosby Co. advertisement, late 1880s