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
James Ford Bell, was an American business leader and philanthropist, was the founder of General Mills in 1928. He served as president of General Mills from 1928 to 1934 and as chairman from 1934 to 19
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