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Hutchinson, Jesse

farmer, was born Feb. 3, 1778, in Middletown, Mass.

He was the father of the famous Hutchinson family, who achieved a reputation as popular singers, and were identified with the anti-slavery and temperance movements. He died Feb. 16, 1851, in Milford, N. H.

HUTCHINSON, JOHN ALEXANDER, lawyer, legislator, author, was born in 1840, in Parkersburg, W. Va. In 1872 he was made prosecuting county attorney, serving nine years. He served one term as a member in the state house of delegates in West Virginia. He is the author of Land Titles in Virginia and West Virginia; and A Treatise on the Laws of West Virginia.

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