Mary Augusta Cunningham

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MARY C. HOARD, FORMER PUBLISHER, DIES: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) - April 1, 1998
Deceased Name: MARY C. HOARD, FORMER PUBLISHER, DIES
Mary Cunningham Hoard, former board chairman of W.D. Hoard and Sons Co. publishing firm, died Saturday at the age of 95.
Mrs. Hoard, an author and longtime backer of local art and history endeavors, was the widow of William D. Hoard Jr., the third generation of his family to serve as publisher of the Hoard's Dairyman magazine and Daily Jefferson County Union newspaper.
A nephew, Mark Hoard Kerschensteiner of Fort Atkinson, noted that she was the last Hoard in Fort Atkinson, though the name lives on in the publishing company and the Hoard Historical Museum, among other things.
''She was kind, considerate, generous and always thoughtful of others,'' said William D. Knox, president of W.D. Hoard & Sons Co. ''Mary was a wonderful lady in every way.''
After her husband's death in 1972, Mrs. Hoard served until 1992 as chairman of the board of the Hoard firm.
She was a charter member of the Fort Atkinson Historical Society and served on its board of directors. She founded the Hoard Historical Art Show, which in April marks its 38th year.
''I guess I was born to love art,'' she once said. ''I never was that serious about painting, but I always was interested in it as a hobby.''
She donated her former home to the State Historical Society, and the structure, known as the Benson House, was moved for display among other early dwellings at the Old World Wisconsin outdoor museum at Eagle.
She teamed up with longtime museum curator Hannah Swart to write a history of the area dating back to the Black Hawk War of 1832, published in 1963 as ''Footsteps of Our Founding Fathers.''
The two later wrote ''Koshkonong Country,'' which detailed Jefferson County history. Other volumes followed.
Kerschensteiner said his aunt established the Fort Atkinson Community Foundation in 1973 ''with a piece of paper and then a scramble to collect funds.
''Today it boasts $6.2 million, a great deal of which goes for scholarships,'' he said.
He also recalled how his aunt was a friend of artist Andrew Wyeth and went to Arizona in the early 1970s to sit for a portrait. That painting now hangs in the Mary Hoard Gallery at the museum.

Mary married William Hoard on 24 Oct 1925. William (son of Frank Hoard and Luella Agnes Dodge West) was born on 9 Jun 1897 in Fort Atkinson, Jefferson Co, Wisconsin, USA; died on 14 Aug 1972; was buried in Fort Atkinson, Jefferson Co, Wisconsin, USA (Evergreen Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

Wilson married Anna Isabel Billings. Anna was born in in Cobb, , Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]