Home › H › Hutchins, Stilson – Hyatt, John Wesley

Hutchins, Stilson – Hyatt, John Wesley

Hutchins, Stilson

journalist, state legislator, was born Nov. 14, 1830, in Whitefield, N. H. The Washington Post was founded by him in 1877, and became almost immediately successful. He has been a member of the Missouri and New Hampshire legislatures.

Hutchins, Thomas

geographer, author, was born in 1730, in Monmouth, N. J. He was a noted geographer of the colonial period, and the author of Topographical Description of Virginia, etc.; and History, Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West Florida. He died April 28, 1789, in Pittsburg, Pa.

Hutchins, Waldo

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1823, in Brooklyn, Conn. He was a member of the state house of representatives of New York in 1852; and was elected a representative from New York to the fortysixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat.

Hutchinson, Aaron

clergyman, author, was born in March, 1722, in Hebron, Conn. he was one of the foremost classical scholars of his time in America; and was actively engaged in preaching for over fifty years. He died Sept. 27, 1800, in Pomfret, Vt.

Hutchinson, Jesse

poet. He wrote many songs for popular airs, which he sang with effect. The principal of these were the Emancipation Song; Family Song; Old Granite State; Good Old Days of Yore; and The Slave Mother.

Hutchinson, John Russell

educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born Feb. 12, 1807, in Columbia county, Pa. He was professor of ancient languages in Oakland college, Miss. till 1854, and afterward president of the college. He was the author of Reminiscences, Sketches, and Addresses. He died Feb. 24, 1878.

Hutton, Frederick Remsen

engineer, educator, was born May 28, 1853, in New York city. In 1873 he graduated from Columbia college; he then attended the school of mines of that institution, and in 1876 received the degrees of Civil Engineer and Engineer Mines. Subsequently he received the degrees of A. M. and Ph. D. He was appointed instructor in mechanical engiof neering in Columbia, and his educational work has since been done in that field.

Hutton, John E

congressman. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-ninth congress.

Hutton, Laurence

author, was born Aug. 8, 1843, in New York city. He is a litterateur of prominence in New York city, and the author of Other Times and Other Seasons; Plays and Players'; Artists of the Nineteenth Century; Literary Landmarks of London; Literary Landmarks of Edinburgh; Curiosities of the American Stage; From the Books of Laurence Hutton; Portraits in Plaster; Edwin Booth; Literary Landmarks of Jerusalem; Literary Landmarks of Venice; Literary Landmarks of Florence; and Literary Landmarks of Rome.

Huyler, John

congressman, was born in New York. Having become a citizen of New Jersey, he was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress from that state. He died Jan. 9, 1870, in New York.

Hyatt, Alpheus

educator, author, was born April 5, 1838, in Washington, D. C. He is a professor o zoology in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and curator of the Boston Society of Natural History, and the author of Observations on Fresh Water Polyzoa; About Pebbles; Commercial and Other Sponges; Common Hydroids; Worms and Crustacea; Guides to Science Teaching; and The Oyster, Clam, and other Common Mollusks.

Hyatt, John Wesley

inventor, was born Nov. 28, 1837, in Starkey, N. Y.

He devoted his attention almost exclusively to inventing, and his first patent was for a knife-grinder or sharpener.

His next important invention was a composition billiard ball, the patent being issued in 1865. He has received nearly two hundred patents.