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 HUTCHINSON. HUXFORI). 331 HUTCHINSON, EBEN, son of Eben- ezer and Lois W. (Williams) Hutchinson, was born in Athens, Somerset county, Maine, August 2, 1841. After the usual attendance at the public schools, he received academic training in Somerset Academy, Athens, and Bloom- field Academy, Skowhegan, Me. Having chosen the profession of law, and pursued the prescribed course of reading, he was admitted to the bar at Norridgewock, Maine, in 1S62. He soon after entered military service in the 24th regiment, Maine volunteers, and rose rapidly from the grade of private to that of lieutenant-colonel. He was subse- quently commissioned major of the 2d Maine veteran volunteer cavalry, where he served till December, 1865. In the summer of r866 he came to Boston, settled in Chelsea, and resumed the prac r tice of law. Mr. Hutchinson was city solicitor of Chelsea from 1875 to '80 ; member of the House of Representatives in 1878, serving as chairman of the committee on bills in the third reading, and clerk of the com- mittee on towns. In 1879 he was elected to the Senate, and again served as chair- man of the committee on bills in the third reading ; also chairman of the joint committee on towns, anil a member of the joint committee on taxation. In 1880 he was re-elected to the Senate, and was chairman of the committee on towns and that of federal relations, and of the Senate committee on probate anil chancery. He was appointed special justice of the Chelsea police court in 1874, and held this position until 1878. In 18S0 he was re-ap- pointed a special justice of the court, and later in the same year he qualified as jus- tice of the same court. Mr. Hutchinson was first married in Skowhegan, Me., November n, 1S63, to Rachel W., daughter of Edmund C. and Mary R. (Humphrey) Lane. Mrs. Hutch- inson died in February, 1S80. On August 20, 1882, Mr. Hutchinson was married to Abbie A. Lane, sister of his first wife. His children are: Maud Hutchinson, now in Wellesley College, and Eben Hutchinson, Jr., captain of cadets in Episcopal Institute, Burlington, Vermont. Mr. Hutchinson has long been an active and influential member of the Republican party, is a public-spirited citizen in local affairs, and has fairly merited the success he has achieved in military, civic and pro- fessional life. HUXFORD, Daniel Holley, son of Henry Brown and Lavinia Allen (Holley) Huxford, was born in Edgartown, Dukes county (Martha's Vineyard), November 28, 1850. He was educated in the common and high schools of Edgartown. He left school in February, 1867, to enter the " Vineyard Gazette " office as an appren- tice. He remained there until May, 1869; he was then employed in New Bedford in the "Standard" office for a short time, when he was forced to leave on account of ill health. In August, same year, he went to East Abington (now Rockland) to work DANIEL H. HUXFORD. on the "Abington Standard " (now " Rock- land Standard " ). Here he was foreman two and one-half years, leaving there De- cember 25, 1872. During the winter he purchased the " Norfolk County Register," Randolph, and entered upon the duties of publisher March 5, 1873. Since this time the paper has twice been enlarged, and the " Holbrook News " added. Mr. Huxford has been a printer twenty-two years, an editor nearly seven- teen years, and issued every paper (save three) during the time. His residence is Randolph. Mr. Huxford is a prominent member of the I. O. O. F., joining Rising Star Lodge