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Rh members of the board of education. He died at his summer residence in New Jersey. For the Hurry ancestry see " Memorials of the Family of Hurry of Great Yarmouth," by Charles James Palmer, F. S. A. (Norwich, England, 1873).

HUTCHINS, Waldo, park commissioner, b. in Brooklyn, Windom co.. Conn., 30 Sept., 1823; d. in New York city, 8 Feb., 1891. He was gradu- ated at Amherst in 1842, and admitted to the bar in 1845, settling in New York city. He served in the legislature in 1852, was a delegate to the New Y'ork constitutional convention in 1867, and a member of congress in 1879-'85, having been chasen as a Democrat. He was one of the first advocates for the establishment of Central park, aided in securing legislation in its favor, was a park commissioner in 18o7-'69, and was again ap- pointed in 1887, becoming president in 1889-'iK), and remaining a member of the board till his death. Jlr. Hutchins was also active in the move- ment that resulted in the laying out of Van Cort- landt. Pelham. and other parks in New York city.

'''HUTCHINSON. Charles Lawrence''', banker, b. in Lynn, Mass., 7 March, 1854. He was taken by his parents to Chicago when two years old, and on his graduation from the high-school there in 1873 engaged in business with his father. On the organization of the Com exchange bank he be- came its president, and he is a director in various large corporations. To bis efforts the Art institute of Chicago, of which he is president, and to which he has given largely, owes much of its success. With Martin A. Kyerson he advanced |20(J,000 to secure for it an extremely valuable collection of paintings, and he wa.s also a director of the World's Columbian ex[)osilion of 1893. Hl'TTUN, Edward Tlioiiiat* Henry, English soldier, b. at (iate Burton, Dec, 1848. Ho was educated at Eton, and was graduated at the staff col- lege. In 1867 he became ensign in the 60lh rifle.s, was adjutant 4th battalion, 1873-'7, and was pro- moted lieutenant-colonel, 1889, and colonel, 1892. From 1893 to 1896 he commanded the forces in New South Wales, with the temporary rank of major-general, and since August, 1898, he has been in command of the military forces in the Dominion of Canada, with headquarters at Ottawa. Gen. Hutton, who has been instrumental in introducing many reforms into the army, was appointed an aide-de-camp to the Queen in 1892 and a Compan- ion of the Bath in 1894. His war services include various operations during the Zulu war of 1879, for which he received the medal with clasp. During the Boer war of 1881 he commanded a squadron with Barrows's mounted infantry. He served throughout the Egyptian war of 1882 as military secretary andaide-de-camp toSir Archibald Alison, and was detailed to raise and organize the mounted infantry corps, distinguishing himself at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir. On this occasion, besides the or- dinary war medal, he was rewarded with the fourth class of the Medjidie and the Khedive's star. He likewise served with the Nile expedition, 1884-'5, as commandant of mounted infantry, and raised the 1st and 2d battalions of mounted infantry. Subsequently he was deputy assistant adjutant- general. From 1896 to 1898 he was assistant ad- jutant-general at Dublin and at ti.e Curragh.

HYDE, Henry Baldwin, president, b. in Catskill, N. Y., 15 Feb., 1834; d. in New York city, 2 May, 1899. He was a son of the late Henry H. Hyde, of Boston. After he left school he was appointed to a clerkship in the Mutual life insurance company ; at the age of twenty-three he had been promoted cashier. On 25 July, 1859, he organized the Equitable life assurance society of the United States. He served as vice-president from that time until 2 Sept., 1874, when he was elected president, which office he continued to fill, with a salary, for many years, of $100,000 per annum, also receiving a perceittage on the company's profits. His successor, James W. Alexander, said of him : "This institution — this Equitable — which he founded and fostered, is his monument, to stand for all time a testimony to the wisdom, strength, and character of Henry B. Hyde." His son, James II., recently graduated from Harvard, is a vice-president of the Equitable company.