Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman – Hyde, William De Witt
Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman
physician, author, was born Feb. 22, 1822, in Old Franklin, Mo. He was a noted physician of Brooklyn, and the author of History of Asiatic Cholera in Brooklyn; Physiology and Hygiene; Contributions to Orthopædic Surgery; and Acupressure. He died in 1867.
Hutson, Charles Woodward
author. He is the author of Out of a Beleaguered City, a Tale of the Revolution; Beginnings of Civilization; History of French Literature; and The Story of Beryl, a novel.
Hutson, Richard
congressman, was born June 12, 1747, in Prince Williams Parish, S.. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the continental congress from 1778 to 1779; and was one of the signers of the articles of confederation. He died in 1793, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Hutton, Aurelius Winfield
lawyer, jurist, was born July 23, 1847, in Greene county, Ala. After receiving a liberal education he became a cadet in the university of Alabama. He then studied law, and graduated from the law department of the university of Virginia in 1868, with the degree of B. L. In 1869 he was admitted to the bar, and settled in Los Angeles, Cal., where he has attained prominence as one of the leading lawyers of that state. In 1872 he was elected city attorney, and received the reelection two years later. In 1887-88 he became superior judge of Los Angeles county; and in 1889 was appointed United States attorney. President Harrison appointed him special counsel of the United States in the cases for violation of the neutrality laws of the United States against the Itata in 1891.
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, Elijah Clarence
lawyer, author, was born Oct. 14, 1835, in New Castle, N. Y. He received his equcation at the Amenia seminary, Mount Kisco Educational institute, Bedford academy, and the New York university law school. He has been justice of the peace; executor and administrator of estates, referee and commissioner in lunacy proceedings; and filled various other public positions of trust. In 1866 he was admitted to the bar, and has attained success as an able lawyer of Mount Kisco, N. Y. He is the author of History of Mount Kisco; History of New York and Harlem Railroad; Genealogical History of the Hyatts; and other works.
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.
Hyde, Alvan
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 2, 1768, in Franklin, Conn.
For thirty-one years he was a member of the corporation of Williams college, and its vice-president from 1812 until his death. He published Sketches of the Life of Rev. Stephen West; Essay on the State of Infants; and occasional sermons. died Dec. 4, 1833, in Lee, Mass.
Hyde, Burrell
He WOODWORTH, financier, was born Dec. 23, 1839, in Franklin, Conn. In 1868 he entered the Old Norwich Saving society, which now has deposits of over eleven millions, and with which institution he is still connected. For twenty years he has been a member of the board of education; and has written extensively for various magazines.
Hyde, Charles L
journalist, financier, was born June 23, 1861, in Pike county, Ill. At the age of eighteen years he was working as a farm hand or cow boy in Colorado.
From 1880 to 1886 he served as a commercial traveler or an eastern manufacturing house. He then engaged in mercantile business at Lima, Ohio, from whence he moved to South Dakota in 1888, and has since been engaged in the real estate business.
Mr. Hyde's financial career has been most successful, the results solely of his own perseverance, forethought and integrity.
He is the editor and owner of the Rustler, of Pierre, and influential in the public affairs of his city and state.
Hyde, Edward
governor, was born about 1650, in England. He was governor of North Carolina about 1706-12, when the colony was in a state of confusion from the conflicting claims of the Anglicans and Quakers. He died Aug. 8, 1712, in North Carolina.
Hyde, Edward Wyllys
educator, author, was born Oct. 17, 1843, in Saginaw, Mich. He is a professor of mathematics and civil engineering in the university of Cincinnati from 1875, and author of Skew Arches; and Directional Calculus.
Hyde, Frederick
educator, surgeon, banker, author, was born Jan. 27, 1809, in Whitney's Point, N. Y. He was president of the New York state medical association in 1865, since 1876 has been president of the board of trustees of the state normal school at Cortland, and in that year was a délegate to the International Medical congress at Philadelphia. In 1876 he became president of the Cortland Savings bank. He has published reports on the Surgery of Cortland County.
Hyde, Henry B
insurance president. He is president of the Equitable Life Assurance society of New York, and draws the highest salary in the United States. His salary is one hundred thousand dollars a year.
Hyde, Ira B
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 18, 1838, in Guilford, N. Y. He entered the union army in a Minnesota cavalry regiment in 186z.
He removed to Missouri in 1866; was prosecuting attorney in 1872; and was elected to the forty-third congress.
Hyde, James Nevins
surgeon, author, was born June 21, 1840, in Norwich, Conn. He is a surgeon of Chicago, and the author of Early Medical Chicago; and Diseases of the Skin.
Hyde, John Poisal
clergyman, educator, college president, was born Jan. 31, 1836, in Annapolis, Md. In 1850 he entered St. John's college, and graduated with first honors in 1857. During 1870-81 he was president of the Lonoak Female college of Martinsburg, W. Va.; and since 1881 has been president of the Valley Female college of Winchester, Va. He is a successful clergyman of the methodist episcopal church south; and well known as a successful educator of young ladies, and a promoter of sound christian education. In 1892 he received the nomination for United States commissioner of education; and has filled various high positions in his church, and as chaplain in various associations.
Hyde, Samuel Clarence
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 22, 1842, in Fort Ticonderoga, N. Y. He served in the seventeenth regiment Wisconsin infantry in the war of the rebellion. He was elected prosecuting attorney for the district embracing northeastern Washington in 1880; and was elected three terms, holding that office for six years. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Hyde, Thomas Worcester
soldier, ship builder, author, was born in Italy. He was a brigadier-general in the army of the Potomac in the civil war, and is a builder of steel ships at Bath, Maine. He is the author of Following the Greek Cross, or Memories of the Sixth Army Corps.
Hyde, William De Witt
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 23, 1858, in Winchendon, Mass. He is a congregational clergyman, president of Bowdoin college since 1885, and the author of Practical Ethics; and Outlines of Social Theology.