Hussey, Cornelia Collins – Hutchinson, Thomas
Hussey, Cornelia Collins
suffragist, was born July 7, 1827, in New York city. She was the founder of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children; and has been trustee of the New York Colored Orphan Asylum. She is a member of the Association for Advancement of Women; a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance union of the state of New Jersey; vicepresident of the National Woman's Suffrage society; and a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; and of Dumb Animals..
Hussey, John M
educator, lecturer, college president, was born Sept. 22, 1863, in Stanberry, Mo. He received his education at the Grand River college, and in the Missouri normal schools. He has taught country schools, graded and high schools; and has been conductor of nearly a score of county institutes in Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa. He is considered one of the most successful private normal school men in the west; and is now the president and proprietor of the Western Normal college, and the Shenandoah Commercial Institute and Musical Conservatory of Shenandoah, Iowa.
Hussman, Bernard L
educator, farmer, state legislator, was born Aug. 2, 1855, in St. Clair county, Ill. For many years he was principal of the Aviston public schools. In 1897 he was elected a representative in the Illinois state legislature from Effingham county, where he is a successful farmer.
Hussong, Edward Marston
educator, botanist, was born Dec. 10, 1864, in Ames, Iowa. He received his education in the Ames Agricultural college, and at the university of Nebraska. For many years he has been engaged in educational work with success; and is now principal of public schools of Franklin, Neb. He has been a successful editorial writer and journalist, and is the author of several botanical and educational works.
Husted, James William
statesman, was born Oct. 31, 1833, in Bedford, Westchester, N. Y. He has been for many years a member and also speaker of the assembly. In 1873 he was appointed major-general of the national guard of the state of New York. He was president of the New York state military association in 1875-76, and is popularly known as the Bald Eagle of Westchester.
Huston, Benjamin W
soldier, lawyer, state senator, was born March 5, 1830, in Rochester, N. Y. He moved to Michigan with his father in 1836; and subsequently taught school and attended the Ypsilanti seminary for several terms. In 1854 he was admitted to the bar, and since 1855 has practiced his profession in Vassar, Mich. In 1862 he entered the civil war as captain in the twenty-third regiment Michigan volunteers, became major, and served until 1865. He has served as prosecuting attorney; in 1866 was elected circuit court commissioner; and in 1867 was a delegate in the constitutional convention. During 1869-72 he was a member of the Michigan state legislature; was state senator in 1879; and in 1890 was appointed attorney-general of the state of Michigan.
Hutcherson, Wilson Edwin
educator, clergyman, was born Sept. 13, 1863, in Holly Springs, Miss. He graduated from the Wiley university of Marshall, Texas. He has attained success as an educator, and as a clergyman in the Texas conference. He now fills a pastorate in Caldwell, Texas.
Hutcheson, Joseph C
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born May 18, 1842, in Mecklenburg county, Va. He enlisted as a private soldier in the twenty-first Virginia regiment; served in the Valley under Stonewall Jackson and surrendered at Appomattox.
He was a member of the Texas legislature in 1880; is the senior member of one of the most prominent law firms in Texas; and was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat.
Hutchins, Charles Lewis
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 5, 1838, in Concord, N. H. Since 1872 he has been rector of Grace church, Medford, Mass.
He has published several collections of church music, among which are, Sunday-School Hymnal; Annotations of the Hymnal; Church Hymnal; and Sunday- School Hymnal and Service-Book.
Hutchins, John
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born July 25, 1812, in Vienna township, Ohio. In 1849 he was elected to the Ohio legislature.
In 1858 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-sixth congress; was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. He was also a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention in 1866.
Hutchins, John Corydon
lawyer, jurist, was born May 8, 1840, in Warren, Ohio. In 1877 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Cuyahoga county; in 1883 was elected judge of the municipal court of Cleveland; and re-elected in 1885.
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.
Hutchins, Wells A
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1818, in Hartford, Ohio. He was elected to the Ohio legislature in 1851; and in 1862 was appointed one of the six provost-marshals for Ohio. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirtyeighth congress.
Hutchinson, a. C
railroad president, was born Fep. 2, 1832, in Brooklyn, N. Y. From 1882 to 1892 he was president of the Houston and Texas Central railway; and has been president of numerous other railroads.
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, Charles L
banker, was born March 7, 1854, in Lynn, Mass.
He has been president of the Corn Exchange bank since its reorganization in 1879, and is ex-president of the Chicago Board of Trade. He was a director of the World's Columbian exposition. The Art institute, of which he has been president for fourteen years, is the apple of his eye.
Much of his time has been given to this institution and probably no one else has done so much for its development and advancement.
Hutchinson, Ellen Mackay
journalist, author, poet, was born in New York. She is a literary journalist of New York city, on the Tribune staff, and editor with E. C. Stedman of The Library of American Literature, in eleven volumes.
She has published Songs and Lyrics.
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, 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.
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.
Hutchinson, Thomas
governor, author, was worn Sept. 9, 1711, in Boston, Mass. He was the last royal governor of Massachusetts. An historian of great ability, but whose merits as such were not recognized by his contemporaries.
His History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, the third and last volume of which was not published till nearly fifty years after his death, begins with the year 1628 and closes with the year 1774. He published also a Collection of Original Papers relating to the same subject. He died June 3, 1780, near London, England. 9