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Jersey. Princeton, where he was received and was graduated second in liis chxss in 1794, receiving his A.M. degree in 1797. He studied law with liis brotlier, Aaron J. Hutchinson, in Lebanon, N.H., and was admitted to the Orange county bar in 1798. He was a practising hiwyer in Woodstock, Vt.. 1798-1813; state's attorney: representative in the state h^gislature ten years; U.S. attorney for the district of Vermont, 1813-23; judge of the supreme court of the state, 1826-30, and chief justice, 1830-33. He was a member of the cor- Ix)ration of the University of Vermont, 1810-2i5, and received the honorary degree of A.M. from that institution in 1811. He was married, Feb. 16. 1800. to Clarissa Sage, and they had five sons: Edwin, born Feb. 28, 1803, University of Ver- mi>nt. A. B., 1823. lawyer, Windsor, Vt., died Aug. 23, 1861; Oramel, University of Vermont, 1824, lawyer, Chester, Vt., died there; Henry, Uni- versity of Vermont, 1825, lawyer, died, 1885; Titus, and Alexander. Judge Hutchinson is the author of: Fourth of July Orations (ISOCy-Od); Jurisdiction of Courts (1855). He died in Wood- st..ck. Vt.. Aug. 24. 1S57.

HUTCHINSON, Joseph Chrisman, physician, was born in Old Franklin, Mo., Feb. 22, 1822. He was a student at the University of Missouri and was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1848. He practised in his native town, 1848-52, and in Brooklyn, X.Y., 1852-87. He was surgeon in the Brooklyn hospital, 1857-87; surgeon-iu-chief of the Brooklyn orthopaedic infirmary for several years; lecturer on the diseases of women, Uni- versity of the City of New York, 1854-56; sur- geon to the Brooklj'n cholera hospital, 1854; pro- fessor of operative and clinical surgery in Long Lsland college hospital, 1860-67, and health com- missioner of Brooklyn, 1873-75. He was a dele- gate to the International Medical congress at Paris in 1867; to the British Medical association in Edinburgh in 1875, and to the one in London in 1881. He was vice-president of the New York Academy of Medicine, 1869-71, and its president, 1871. He published: Histonj and Observations on Asiatic Cholera in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 185^ (1854); a text-book for schools entitled: Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene (1870); Contributions to Orthoptedic Surgery (1880). He died in Brook- lyn. N.Y.. July 16. 1S87.

HUTSON, Charles Woodward, educator, was born at McPhersonville, S.C, Sept. 23, 1840; .son of William Ferguson and Sophronia Lucia (Pal- mer) Hutson; grandson of Richard Woodward and Martha O'Rielly (Ferguson) Hutson, and of the Rev. Edward and Sarah (Bunce) Palmer, both descended from early colonists of New England; and a descendant of the Rev. William Hutson, who came from England to America in

1740, settling near Stoney Creek church, I'lince William's parish, S.C, marrying Mary Wood- ward, a descendant of the oldest settlers in the colony. Charles Woodward Hutson was graduated from South Carolina C(jllege, Columbia, S.C, in 1800, and served in the Confederate armj' as private in the Hampton Legion, infantry, 1861-02, and the Beaufort artillery, 1862-65. He was professor of Greek at the Louisiana State university, 1869-72; professor of modern languages at the University of Mississippi, 1881-89, and in 1893 was elected professor of English and history at the Agricultural and Mechanical college of Texas. He is the author of: Beginnings of Civilization (1881); Out of a Besieged City (1887); The Story of Beryl (1888); French Literature (1889); The Story of Language (1898), and fugitive verses in current jjeriodicals.

HUTSON, Richard, delegate, was born in Prince William's pari.sli, S.C, June 12, 1747; son of the Rev. William and Mary (Woodward) Chardon Hutson. His father, an Englishman, was an Independent minister, who settled in 1743 over a congrega- tion at Sto- Creek.

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called to the pastorate of the " Circular Church," in which he served until his death, about 1760. Richard Hutson was prepared for college at Charleston, paying special attention to the languages. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1765, A.M., 1768; was admitted to the South Carolina bar, and prac- tised law in Charleston, 1768-78. On the out- break of the Revolution he took an active part on the Whig side, and .suffered both in purse and person. He was a delegate to the Conti- nental congress, 1778-79. In August, 1780, with other leading patriots of Charleston, he was sent to St. Augustine and imprisoned by the British. To relieve the tedium of prison life he is said to have added Spanish to the languages of which he was master. He was intendant of Charleston, 1783-84; chancellor, 1784-91, and on the promo- tion of Chancellor John Rutledge, in 1791, he became the senior judge of tiie court of clian- cery. He was a member of the South Carolina convention that ratified the Federal constitution, 1788, and lo.st his property by accepting Continen- tal money, that his example might help to estal> lish public confidence in ihe currency. He never married. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1793.