Catalog Number

2021.18.75

Description

Silver pitcher given to George Hummer by the Holland Public Schools in 1880.

History

George Pierson Hummer was born on 12-25-1856 in New Jersey. He married Margaret Plummer in Holland, MI on 3-26-1885.

At one point George served as mayor of Holland, superintendent of schools in Holland and first president of the West Michigan Furniture Company.

Gift of

Robert Fitzgerald, Jr. & Melinda Fitzgerald Bauman in loving memory of their mother Peggy Kirchen Fitzgerald