Last Updated on September 27, 2013 by Dennis
GEORGE LELAND HUNTER: author; b. Bellingham, Mass. May 8, 1867; grad. Phillips Exeter Acad., N.H., 1885; A.B., Harvard 1889; m. Esther Kennedy Boardman, Pittsburgh March 24, 1913. Writer, lecturer on tapestries and other decorative subjects; decorative author: new edit. “New Internat. Ency.,” 1914. Clubs: University (Chicago), Harvard New York City. Author: “Tapestries. Their Origin, History and Renaissance,” 1912; “Home Furnishing,” 1913; “Inside the House that Jack Built,” 1914; “Italian Furniture and Interiors,” 1917; “Decorative Textiles,” 1918; “Decorative Furniture,” 1923; “Practical Book of Tapestries,” 1925; “Tapestries of Clarence H. Mackey,” 1925. Contbr. of 300 articles on tapestries, etc. to mags. Home: Redding, Conn.