FULTON COUNTY, GA -Obituary, Calvin Welborn Hunnicutt

Obituary, Calvin Welborn Hunnicutt


Thursday, January 21, 1915, The Atlanta Constitution


Family surnames:  Hunnicutt  Payne  Greene  Drake  Prescott  Tyner


Business associates:
Silvey  Dougherty  Taylor  Haas  Levi  Whaley  Bellingrath




Calvin Welborn Hunnicutt, Pioneer ----


Mr. Hunnicutt was a man of many friends, and his death brings
sadness to hundreds of hearts in this city.


In 1857, Mr. Hunnicutt married Miss Letitia Payne, who
died September 24, 1886. He leaves one son, J. E.
Hunnicutt, and a daughter, Mrs. Alston H. Greene, Mrs.
Letitia A. Drake and Mrs. W. R. Prescott. An elder son,
L. L. Hunnicutt, and a daughter, Mrs. Charles O. Tyner,
died several years ago.


He came to Atlanta in 1847, when the town was known as
Marthasville, and lived here continuously except for a
few months when he clerked in a store in Cartersville.


Mr. Hunnicutt was born in Mecklinburn county, North
Carolina, February 27, 1827.  With his parents he moved
to Cobb county, Georgia, in 1838.  In 1847 he came to
Atlanta and worked in the clothing store of Haas & Levi
for his board.  After two months' trial his employers
gave him $12.50 a month at a branch store in
Cartersville, Ga.  In 1848 he returned to Atlanta and
worked for the same employers until 1852, when he opened
a dry goods and clothing store with John Silvey under the
firm name of Hunnicutt & Silvey.  He disposed of that
business in 1858 to D. O. Dougherty and entered the drug
business with Dr. James A. Taylor.  In 1866 he embarked
in the plumbing business, and the firm of Hunnicutt &
Bellingrath was for many years one of the best known
concerns in the city.


Only twice did he enter public life, although often urged
to accept places of public trust.  He was a member of the
city council in 1859. After the war he was one of the
Fulton county commissioners for fourteen years, and held
its chairmanship for eight years.


When the civil war broke out Mr. Hunnicutt organized the
Fulton Dragoons, a cavalry company, and was elected
captain, but resigned that position for his friend, Caleb
Whaley, and became a Lieutenant. Later he went to
Cuthbert, Ga.,  as an attache of the medical department
of the confederate government.


The beginning of the was found him worth about $65,000,
which he had made by hard work and industry. When the war
closed he was penniless and had to start life over again,
but he was undaunted and was soon a factor in the
business world of a city which had been devasted by war
but which was, like himself, to rise above disaster and
ruin.


Mr Hunnicutt retired from an active business life
fourteen years ago, leaving his son in charge.  He was a
steward and lifelong member of the First Methodist
church, was a charter member and past master of Atlanta
Lodge of Masons, and was a member of the Pioneer
Citizens' society of Atlanta.


In a history of pioneers of Atlanta it was written by one
who knew him: "Mr. Hunnicutt is distinctly a business
man, a man whose efforts have tended to build up Atlanta
and make a great city. He came here when the place
consisted of only crossroad stores and has always had
faith that the city would grow to a large and prosperous
metropolis.


Modest, plain and unassuming, he has worked his way up to
his present independent position, respected of the whole
community.



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