contribution #115

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{
  "id": "hume_alistair",
  "name": "Alistair Caldwell Hume",
  "born": 1801,
  "died": 1879,
  "class": "founder-wealthy",
  "background": "Anglo-Scots (Glasgow émigré, arrived 1822)",
  "neighborhood": "Vanderlin Row (Hume House, which he built in 1841)",
  "occupation": "shipping magnate; founder, Hume Shipping Company (1833)",
  "notes": "The ancestor. His portrait hangs in the Hume Shipping boardroom and in the entrance hall of Hume Polytechnic. In the corpus period he is a mythologized figure — descendants, biographers, and rivals all claim a different Alistair.\n",
  "relationships": [
    {
      "to": "hume_margaret",
      "type": "spouse"
    },
    {
      "to": "hume_william",
      "type": "child"
    },
    {
      "to": "hume_cornelia",
      "type": "child"
    },
    {
      "to": "hume_james_the_first",
      "type": "child"
    }
  ]
}