James Melville Hunnewell

The Boston Post, March 23, 1954

Funeral services for Attorney James M. Hunnewell, 74, 14 Chestnut St., Beacon Hill, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in Trinity Church with burial at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge. He died yesterday at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.

A graduate of Harvard University in 1901 and Harvard Law School in 1904, he was a State Representative from 1920 to 1927. He was a trustee of the Warren Institution for Savings, a director of the American Antiquarian Society, the Bostonian Society, the Church Home Society and the Home for Aged Men.

Besides his wife, Emeline (Ticknor) Hunnewell, he leaves four sons, James F. and William P. of Boston, and Thomas B. and Richard F., of New York, and one daughter, Mrs. Horace R. Moorhead of Pittsburgh, Pa.

The Boston Globe, March 23, 1954

Services will be held tomorrow afternoon in Trinity Church for James Melville Hunnewell, 74, well-known Boston attorney and former state Representative. He died yesterday in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.

A life-long resident of Boston, he was born in Charlestown and attended the Hopkinson School in Boston. He was graduated from Harvard in 1901 and from Harvard Law School in 1904.

From 1920 to 1927 her was a member of the Legislature.

Mr. Hunnewell was a trustee of the Warren Institution for Savings; and a director of the American Antiquarian Society, the Bostonian Society, the Church Home Society and the Home for Aged Men.

He was treasurer of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and of St. Luke's Home for Convalescents and was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Surviving are a wife, Emeline (Ticknor); a daughter, Mrs. Horace P. Moorhead of Pittsburgh, and four sons, James F. and William P. of Boston, and Thomas B. and Richard F. of New York.