Biography
He was born on July 27, 1810. Hunnewell was a director of the Illinois Central Railroad in 1862-1871, railroad entrepreneur in Kansas beginning in the 1860s, and president of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad and Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Railroad around 1880. He died on May 20, 1902 from a heart attack at age 91. Hunnewell was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, among his family.
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