Hinman Hurlbut
{{short description|American industrialist and philanthropist}}
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| name = Hinman Hurlbut
| image = John Harrison Witt - Hinman B. Hurlbut - 489.1915 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tiff
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| caption = Portrait by John Harrison Witt
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1819|7|20}}
| birth_place = St. James County, New York, United States
| death_date = {{death date and age|March 22, 1884|July 20, 1819}}
| death_place =
| burial_place = Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
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| nationality =
| occupation = Industrialist
| alma_mater =
| known_for = Founding of the Cleveland Museum of Art
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Hinman B. Hurlbut (July 20, 1819 – March 22, 1884) was an American industrialist. A native of New York, Hurlbut relocated to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1837 and started a career privately practicing law in Massillon, Ohio after being admitted to the bar in 1839. After a lucrative career as a lawyer, he found success as a business leader in Cleveland and came to own four national banks by 1863.
Hurlbut endowed the Lakeside Hospital, today part of the University Hospitals of Cleveland, and left funds through his will that would later help establish the Cleveland Museum of Art. He is considered one of the founders of the museum with John Huntington, Horace Kelley, and Jeptha Wade II.
Early life
Hinman B. Hurlbut was born on July 20, 1819, in St. James County, New York, to mother Mary Barrett Hurlbut and father Abiram Hurlbut.{{sfn|Hurlbut, Hinman B.|2018}} His father Abiram was a farmer and moved from Connecticut, where his family resided, to New York. Through his mother's side of the family, Hurlbut is a relative of Governor Hinman, a colonial ruler of Connecticut.{{sfn|Johnson|1879|p=362}}
Law practice and business ventures
In 1837, Hurlbut relocated to Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked in his brother's law office and in 1839 was admitted to the bar.{{sfn|Hurlbut, Hinman B.|2018}} After being admitted to the bar, Hurlbut opened his own law office in Massillon, Ohio in 1839, and entered private practice in partnership with David Kellogg Cartter.{{sfn|Johnson|1879|p=362}} He married Jane Elisabeth Johnson (1818–1910) on May 25, 1840, and the family lived in a house on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland.{{sfn|Hurlbut, Hinman B.|2018}}{{sfn|The Frick Collection}} He stopped practicing in 1852 after a lucrative career as lawyer, and thenceforth became more involved in banking.{{sfn|Johnson|1879|p=362}}
Hurlbut returned to Cleveland in 1852, where he opened his first bank. He purchased the Toledo branch of the State Bank of Ohio in 1856, in collaboration with James Mason, Henry Perkins, Joseph Perkins, Amasa Stone, Morrison Waite, Stillman Witt, and Samuel Young.{{sfn|Johnson|1879|p=362}} By 1863, he owned a total of four national banks.{{sfn|Cleveland Museum of Art|2012|loc=para. 7}}
Later life and legacy
File:Founders plaque - Ames Atrium - Cleveland Museum of Art (30140588193).jpg displays its founders names on a plaque in the Ames Family Atrium.]]
Retiring from his business ventures in 1865, Hurlbut took a three-year tour of Europe and returned to Ohio in 1868. He came back out of retirement in 1871, and became the president of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway the same year.{{sfn|Johnson|1879|p=362}}{{sfn|Volpe|2014|loc=para. 10}} An avid art collector,{{sfn|Hurlbut, Hinman B.|2018}} Hurlbut first became interested in art during his trips to Europe in 1865 and 1881. By the time he returned from his second trip, his collection consisted of 58 pieces of artwork{{sfn|Volpe|2014|loc=para. 11}} of various media, including watercolor paintings, drawings, and sculptures.{{sfn|The Frick Collection}} His wife was also interested in art and may have stimulated his collecting activities. She made purchases for their collection on annual trips abroad and continued making additions after her husband's death.{{sfn|Leedy|1991|p=3}}
Hurlbut founded the Cleveland City Hospital, which later became the Lakeside Hospital and merged into the University Hospitals of Cleveland in 1925.{{sfn|University Hospitals Case Medical Center|2018}}{{sfn|Leedy|1991|p=2}} He endowed a chair of natural sciences at the Western Reserve College.{{sfn|Leedy|1991|p=2}}
Hurlbut died on March 22, 1884.{{sfn|Hurlbut, Hinman B.|2018}} He is buried at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.{{sfn|Vigil|2007}} He left an excess of a quarter million dollars for the founding of an art museum through his will, which would help establish the Cleveland Museum of Art.{{sfn|Hurlbut, Hinman B.|2018}} He is considered a founder of the museum with John Huntington, Horace Kelley, and Jeptha Wade II.{{sfn|Cleveland Museum of Art|2012|loc=para. 1}} Parts of his art collection were also exhibited at the museum in 1917, 1921, and 1922.{{sfn|The Frick Collection}}
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References
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- {{cite web |ref={{harvid|Cleveland Museum of Art|2012}} |title=Cleveland Museum of Art: Founders |url=http://www.clevelandart.org/research/in-the-library/collection-in-focus/cleveland-museum-art-founders |website=Cleveland Museum of Art |access-date=August 15, 2019 |date=October 22, 2012}}
- {{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Crisfield |title=History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio: In Three Parts, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers |date=1879 |publisher=Greater Cleveland Genealogical Society |location=Cleveland, Ohio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L_I7AQAAMAAJ}}
- {{cite web |ref={{harvid|Hurlbut, Hinman B.|2018}} |title=Hurlbut, Hinman B. |url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/h/hurlbut-hinman-b |website=Encyclopedia of Cleveland History |publisher=Case Western Reserve University |access-date=October 9, 2019 |date=May 11, 2018}}
- {{cite web |ref={{harvid|The Frick Collection}} |title=Hurlbut, Hinman B., 1815-1889 |url=https://research.frick.org/directory/detail/399/1 |website=Archives Directory for the History of Collecting |publisher=The Frick Collection }}
- {{cite book |last1=Leedy |first1=Walter C. Jr. |editor1-last=Zuppan |editor1-first=Jo |editor2-last=Feingold |editor2-first=Rachel G. |title=Cleveland builds an art museum: patronage, politics, and architecture, 1884-1916 |date=1991 |publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art |isbn=0940717093}}
- {{cite web |ref={{harvid|University Hospitals Case Medical Center|2018}} |title=University Hospitals Case Medical Center |url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/u/university-hospitals-case-medical-center |website=Encyclopedia of Cleveland History |publisher=Case Western Reserve University |access-date=October 9, 2019 |date=May 11, 2018}}
- {{cite book |last1=Vigil |first1=Vicki Blum |title=Cemeteries of Northeast Ohio: Stones, Symbols & Stories |date=2007 |publisher=Gray & Company |location=Cleveland, Ohio |isbn=9781598510256 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xUr6GAAACAAJ}}
- {{cite web |last1=Volpe |first1=Andrea |title=The Rise of the Cleveland Museum of Art |url=https://beltmag.com/rise-cleveland-museum-art/ |website=Belt Magazine |publisher=Belt Media Collaborative |access-date=August 15, 2019 |date=November 3, 2014}}
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