HUTCHINSON
HUTCHINSON
ISRAU. Hur<HIN$ON HCftO«lAL
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,
