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Max Hunter (Maxwell Franklin Hunter) was born on 2 July, 1921 in Springfield, Missouri, U.S., is an American folk song collector. Discover Max Hunter's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?
| Popular As |
Maxwell Franklin Hunter |
| Occupation |
Refrigerator salesman |
| Age |
78 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Cancer |
| Born |
2 July, 1921 |
| Birthday |
2 July |
| Birthplace |
Springfield, Missouri, U.S. |
| Date of death |
6 November, 1999 |
| Died Place |
N/A |
| Nationality |
United States
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Max Hunter Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Max Hunter's Wife?
His wife is Virginia Mercer (m. 1939)
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| Wife |
Virginia Mercer (m. 1939) |
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Max Hunter Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Max Hunter worth at the age of 78 years old? Max Hunter’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from United States. We have estimated Max Hunter's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Not Available |
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Timeline
Max Franklin Hunter (July 2, 1921November 6, 1999) was an American folklorist who, while working as a travelling salesman, compiled an archive of nearly 1,600 folk songs from the Ozarks region of the southern United States between 1956 and 1976.
Hunter was born on July 2, 1921, to a family with deep roots in the Ozarks.
He grew up in Springfield, Missouri, attending Baptist and Methodist church services and singing with his family.
He married Virginia Mercer in 1939 and started working for her father as a refrigerator salesman.
In 1952, he began working for the John Rhodes Refrigeration Supply Company, traveling on a 150-mile circuit through the Ozarks.
During his travels, he began using a tape recorder to record songs from people he met.
At the Ozark Folk Festival circa 1956, he met folklorists Vance Randolph and Mary Celestia Parler, who saw his potential as a collector and shared some basic archiving skills.
Over his career, he recorded hundreds of singers, including Almeda Riddle, Ollie Gilbert, Fred High, May Kennedy McCord, Raymond Sanders, Jimmy Driftwood, and others who were active in the American folk music revival movement.
He sometimes went to great lengths to convince others to let him record them, such as by helping them out with chores, which at one point included delivering moonshine.
He also recorded by some estimates more than 14 hours of jokes and 1,100 proverbs.
Hunter was the last of the major Ozark ballad collectors, and defied the conventional wisdom of archivists at the time, who thought that such oral traditions had already been fully documented.
His archival philosophy was to make absolutely no changes to the songs he collected, even to correct obvious errors.
In 1972, he gave his audio tapes to the Springfield-Greene County Library, ignoring the advice of friends who urged him to give them to an academic institution where he worried the songs would get buried.
From 1998 to 2001, the archive was digitized by Missouri State University.
Many of his recordings are now on file at the Library of Congress and other institutions.
Although he quit smoking later in his life, he died of emphysema on November 6, 1999, at the age of 78.
