page_title: William Hood Dunwoody
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: William Hood Dunwoody / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: The Dunwoody College of Technology sign at their campus in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo taken July 2007 on behalf of Natalie Martin by Robert Francis.
context_page_description: William Hood Dunwoody 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, Abbott Hospital, and The William Hood Dunwoody Fund of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
context_section_description: Of a total of $4.6 million in gifts in his will, Dunwoody gave $2 million to build an industrial trade school for young people, with a focus on handicrafts, useful arts, the milling arts, and construction of milling machinery. He felt the milling business was threatened by young people's tendency to enter the "office end" of the business after they graduated from high school. Kate Dunwoody gave an additional $1.6 million on her death in 1915. In 1998 the institute was accredited by The Higher Learning Commission to award bachelor's degrees. Today known as Dunwoody College of Technology, it occupies a campus near downtown Minneapolis. As of 2015 Dunwoody offers workforce training and continuing education, and programs in applied management, automotive, computer technology, construction sciences and building technology, design and graphics technology, engineering, radiologic technology, and robotics and manufacturing.
  The William Hood Dunwoody Care Center in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, earned 5 of 5 stars as one of the nation's best nursing homes according to U.S. News & World Report in 2015.  Dunwoody left $1 million in his will to build a retirement village in his birthplace.
  Dunwoody started Abbott Hospital for Dr. Amos Abbott, who had operated successfully on Kate Dunwoody. The hospital was owned until 1963 by Westminster Presbyterian Church; it merged with Northwestern Hospital to become Abbott Northwestern Hospital and later became part of Allina Health.
  The Minneapolis Institute of Art purchased Lucretia (1666) by Rembrandt van Rijn, considered one of the finest Rembrandts in America, with $1 million from the William Hood Dunwoody Fund. Among thousands of other works, it also bought Olive Trees (1889), part of the final series by Vincent van Gogh. At her death in 1915, Kate Dunwoody gave the institute their personal collection. It included two major works by Constant Troyon, a small work by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, a George Inness and work by Thomas Cole.
caption: Dunwoody College of Technology, endowed in 1914 and 1915 by Dunwoody and his wife Kate, celebrated its centennial in 2015.[1]
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