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president Ma88acbutM>ttH ohuir ^miIM. Since 1874 has been editor and |»ubiiiilipr of the Parish Choir. He te the author of several collections of church nMistc, nniun^ which are, Sunday-School Hymnal; Annotations of the Hymnal; Church Hymnal; and Sun* day-8chool Hymnal ami Scrvici' Hook. Hutchins, Francis Sessions, lawy.r :nnl bunker of 27 Pine st., N< w York Cit v, vh.h born Dec. 6, 1877, in ("olufubua, Ohio. He received the degree of A.H. from Williaini* college, and the dofirce of LjM from the New York law school. He is vice-president of the Commonwealth Trust company; and counsel for the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel com. pany. Hutchins, Harry Burns, lawyer, educator, author, was bom April 8, m7, in Lisbon. N.H. WHrt an in^itnirtor in history and rh» toric at the university of Michigan. In lM7.')-83 he practiced hiw in Detroit, Mich. Ill 1887 he riMitovt'd to Itliara tn organi/c a law (le|iartiiu>nt fur foMnU university. In 18J»7-n8 he was aetinju: president of the university of Mieliiu;iii. lie is the author of Hutchinson's Ktjuity Cu8e». Hutchins, Jera quwibtrlaiu, civil ^^t}ii neer, railway manager, was born Oct. VA, Idas, in Carroll parish. La. He studied civil engineering; and Ix-gan railway service in the construction of the Missouri, Gulf and Lexington railway and various other railroa«lH in Misstmri. In 187(5-81 he was reporter on the Examiner of Waco, Texas} and then returned to railroading. He served

HutAias, Thomas, geographer, author, was born in 1730, in Monmouth. N.J. He was a noted geographer of the coloninal period. He was the author of Topographical bescription of Virginia, etc.; and History, Narrative and Topographical Deaeription of Louisiana and West F'lorida. He died April 17S!t,

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Hutchins, Waldo, lawyer, legislator, conin gre&smsn, was born Sept. 18:^2, Brooklyn, Conn. He was a member ot the state house of representatives of New York in 18.)2; and was one of the first adytx-wtes for the establishment of Central Park, of which ho was eommisaioner and president during 1857 O!) and 1889-91. In 1879 85 he was a representative from New York to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty -eighth congresses as a democrat. He died Feb. 8, 18»1, in

New York City. WeUa A., lawyer,

Hutdtim,

state legis-

was born

Oct, 8, islS. elected to the Ohio legislature in 1851; and in 1802 was nppoint<-d one of the six provost-marshals for Ohio. Ill 18U3-G5 he was a representative from Ohio to the thirty-eighth congresa as a democrat. Hutchinson, A. C, railroad president, was l»orn Feh. 2, 1832, in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1882-1)2 he was president of the Houston and Texas central railway; and was presi> dent of numerous uther railroads. He died in I1HI2 in New Orleans, La. lator, oonpressnian.

Hartford, Ohio.

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Aaron,

clergyman, author, Hebron, Conn,

thirteen years

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the foremost classical scholars of his time in America; and was actively cngat.'! d ill preaching for over fiftv years. He was the author of alour for the Truth; Coming out of Christ; an, 1812. in Vienna township, Ohio. In 1849 he was elected to the Ohio legislature. In 18.>y-»;3 he was a representative from Ohio to the thirty>Bixth and thirty-seventh congressM. He was ^ d.d.-n-atc to the Philadelphia loyalists" nlKin in I8ti6. Hutchins, John Corydoo, lawyer, jurist. M-as^ horn May 8. 1S40. in Warren. Ohio. In 1877 he was el«-cte.>. Hutchins, Stilson, journali-t. >tate leginlator. founder, was horn Nuv. 14. 18;{8, in Whitetield, NJtl. The Watihin^ton Post was founded by him in 1877. He has been a memlM>r of the Missouri and New Hampsliire state legislatures.

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Hutchinson, Abby, vocalist, was bom Aug. ]H-2'.). in Milfoid. N.H. She was admired her sirnplii ity and sang Over the Mountain and Over the Moor; The Slave's Appeal; The Spider and the Fly; Jamie's on the Stormy Sea; and The May Queen. She married Ludhiw Patton of New York City in 1840, and has since lived in retirement. 20.

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She died Nov.



24, 1892, in

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England.

Hutchinson, Mrs. Anne Harbnry, religious founder Wiis born about IfilK) in Kngland. Mrs. llut«hinson, with lur iuis-

teacher,

I'.md ami fifteen children, bought for forty fathoms of wampum the island of Aquidneek from the Narragansett Indians, and toimded the t»»wn of Portmouth, while Coddington, one of her followers, founded Newport. After the death of her husband in If'li. Mrs. Hutchinson left Rhode Island, and settled upon some land to the west of Stamford, supposed to he within the territory of the New Netherlands There in the following year she was murdered by Indiana, together with most of her children and servants, sixteen victima in alL She