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HUTCHINSON

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Massachusetts militia to the defence of Ticon- deroga and Lake George, in 1758. For his action in tliese sanguinary engagements, he was pro- moted to the captaincy of his company, and with it joined the forces of General Wolfe in the assault on the Heights of Abraham at Quebec, Sept. 13. 1759, which saved to England the col- onies of America, Wlien the British soldiers tired upon the people of Lexington, April 19, 1775, the news reached Danvers at 9 o'clock in the morning, and by 11 o'clock he had sixty minute men gathered ready to intercept the Brit- ish troops on their return to Boston. This they did at West Cambridge, where from behind breastworks improA'ised from bundles of shingles. Captain Hutchin- son and his sixty Danvers minutemen were attacked bj- a flanking party of the main British column, and eight of their number fell, martyrs to the cause of American liberty, and on the morning of April 20, 1775, the bodies of the slain were taken back to Dan- vere. For his conduct at West Cambridge he was on Hay 3, 1775, made lieutenant-colonel of the 19th Massachusetts regiment, Col. John Mansfield, and with the regiment joined the American militia, assembled at Cambridge. At sunset, June 16, 1775, Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson marclied from Cambridge green with 1000 men, under Colonel Prescott, and fought in the battle of Bunker Hill. He engaged in the siege of Bos- ton under Washington, as colonel of the 27tli regi- ment, accompanied the commander-in-chief to Long Island, where his men manned the boats in the retreat across the East river to New York, and the regiment was a part of the retreating army tlirough New Jersey and across the Dela- ware. He returned to Danvers in 1777, where he was a miller up to the time of his death. He represented his town in the general court of the commonwealth for nineteen j-ears, and was a member of the governor's council two years, besides serving in other public capacities. He was married in 1747, to Anna Cue, by whom he had four cliildren ; and in 1759, to Meliitabel Putnam, A granite monument was erected to his memory on the site of his home at Danvers- port, in 1896, and inscribed with a record of his military and civil life. He died at Danversport, Mass., March 16. 1811.

HUTCHINSON, James, physician, was born in Wakfti*'l.l. Pa., Jan. 29, 1752. He received a cla.ssical fducation at home, and about 1775 went to London, where he was graduated in medicine.

He was in London when the troubles between America and the mother country broke out, and he espoused the cause of the colonists. He went to France to visit Benjamin Franklin, and was entrusted with important despatches, which he bore to the Continental congress. He joined the American forces on liis arrival in Philadelphia, and served as physician and surgeon throughout the Revolution. He was secretary of the Ameri- can Philosophical .society for several years ; was professor of materia medica in the medical de- partment of the Universit}' of the State of Penn- sylvania, 1789-91, and professor of chemistry in the medical department of the newly chartered University of Pennsylvania, 1791-9.3. He served as trustee of the University of the State of Penn- sylvania, 1779-81. He held the official office of physician of the port of Pliiladelphia and as phy- sician to the Pliiladelphia hospital. He died in Philadelphia. Pa., Sept. 0. 170:3.

HUTCHINSON, John Russell, educator, was born in Columbia county. Pa., Feb. 12, 1807. He prepared for college at an academy conducted by his uncle, the Rev. John Hutchinson, at Mifflin- town. Pa. .and was graduated at Jeflferson college in 1826. He studied theology at Princeton. 1826- 28 ; was licensed by the presbytery of Philadel- phia, April 22, 1829, and preached at Bethel and Rodney Mills, Miss., 1829-30. He was ordained in July, 1830, by the presbytery of Mississippi ; was pastor at Baton Rouge, La., 1830-33 ; pastor and professor in the Louisiana college, Jackson, La., 1834-36, and pastor at Ticksbui'g, Miss., 1837^2. He was professor at Oakland college, Claiborne count}'. Miss., 1842-50, and acting president from the assassination of President Jeremiah Chamberlain, Sept. 5, 1850, to 1854. He was pastor and principal of a classical school at Covington, La., 1854-57 ; pastor at New Orleans, 1857-60, Houston, Texas, 1860-65, and a mission- ary in the presbytery of Brazos, Texas, 1867-75. He received the degree of D.D. He published Reminiscences, Skefches and Addresses (1874). He died at Houston, Texas, Feb. 24, 1878.

HUTCHINSON, John Wallace, vocalist, was born in Milford. N.IL, Jan. 4, 1821 ; son of Jesse and Mary (Leavitt) Hut(-hinson, and a direct de- scendant froui Richard Hutchinson, who settled in Salem Mass., having left England in 1634. He was paid a premium for "setting up'' the first plough in Massachusetts. Jesse and Mary Hutchinson were vocalists, and "took part, in rpiartettesof ballads and .sacred music," and their thirteen children, who resiched maturity, inher- ited musical talent and became well known as the " Hutchinson Family." As children they sang at home in chorus, and assisted in religious meetings in the neighborhood. The demand for their talent led to the formation of aconcert troupe,