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- Chapter 22  Part 2  With Angel Voices Blending  1903-1908 -

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With Angel Voices Blending
1903-1908
Chapter 22  Part 2


On January 5, 1903, John grandly celebrated his birthday at Boston's Hotel Vendome.   He sang; and an attractive young woman named Grace A. Vincent gave a violin solo.  John was very taken by her playing; and he began calling on her at her mother's house.

John planned to establish a  High Rock Institute of Advanced Thought,  perhaps not unlike the Green Acre Conferences in Maine.  The particulars were probably far from fixed; but he would start by building what he called an outdoor auditorium, 100 feet square, for meetings and conferences.  Construction was going on that spring.  When completed, it would be roofed with canvas.  John planned to have special days for woman suffrage, temperance, African-Americans, wheelmen, and the good roads movement.  And he expected to promote a lecture series on a wide range of topics.

A family reunion was held at the High Rock Auditorium on August 29.   The Hutchinsons were reasonably well represented, but attendance of others  -  many of them quite elderly  -  was kept down by bad weather.  Richard sang "Ring Out, Wild Bells."  John entertained, and Kate Birney and three of her sons sang.

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"On January 5, 1903, John grandly celebrated his birthday":   "His 82d Birthday," Boston Daily Globe, January 6, 1903, p. 6 col. 6.

A very high percentage of the names of people in attandance at this party are unfamiliar.

Viola's papers at the Lynn Historical Society, surprisingly enough, include an invitation to this event, suggesting that her absence from family functions may have been partly or even wholly of her own choosing.

John may have been previously acquainted with Grace Vincent.   It is quite likely that he already knew her mother, Emily.

"John planned to establish a High Rock Institute of Advanced":   "High Rock Institute of Advanced Thought," Lynn (MA) Item, April 16, 1903, in Item 131r, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire.

"A family reunion was held at the High Rock Auditorium":   Sometimes this structure was called the Peace Stadium or by a much grander name than either, the High Rock Auditorium of Advanced Thought.

"Richard  sang   Ring  Out,  Wild  Bells":   "'Hutchinson Day' in Lynn," Milford (NH) Cabinet, September 3, 1903, p. 1 col. 4.

John had adopted Jack and Richard.  Evidently Richard resided with John by this time; Jack was a medical student at the University of Minnesota.


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On September 10, Dennett and Nellie went back to Hutchinson for a party to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary.  They were joined by about 200 guests.  Of course, their children were there, as was Nellie's mother.  Whenever Dennett attended a social event, people wanted to hear him sing; and on this evening, indeed he did.

The rich melody of the old songs  [ said the Hutchinson Leader ]  brought back recollections of the days when no gathering in Hutchinson was complete without his songs.  He generously responded to repeated demands.

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On January 4, 1904,  John enjoyed his birthday at Tower Cottage.   His grandsons, Cleaveland and Richard, were there, as was Kate Birney.  Also in attendance were his friends Grace Vincent and Ellen Wetherell.   "I am looking forward to the improvement of humanity,"  said John,  "and bear the burdens of life bravely at the age of eighty-three."  Evidently so, for on March 20 he gave a concert at Boston's spacious Faneuil Hall.

On May 4,  the Hutchinson family was the subject of the Milford Historical and Genealogical Society's quarterly meeting.  John, his grandson Richard, Judson's daughter Kate, and Rhoda's daughter Nellie Webster all sang.  The program centered on Kate's wonderful address  -  a major contribution to Hutchinson Family history.

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"John W. Hutchinson,"  said a news report,  "is seriously ill at his home at Lynn, Mass."   "I was very sick with pneumonia,"  said John,  "and given up to die."  He agreed then to let a trustee manage his property.  Usually John spoke of this arrangement as having been imposed on him by members of the Campbell family; but in 1905, Grace Vincent said, "[A] few years ago there was an attempt made to take the property from his possession, but he appealed to the courts and his property was placed in the hands of a trustee, the income to be used by him during his life."

Joseph D. Elms was acting as trustee by the spring of 1904.   On May 26, he and John gave the City of Lynn a deed for the summit of High Rock, with certain stipulations and conditions.  One was that the city must build and maintain the observatory which had been Brother Jesse's dream.  This was a great moment for John, but he did not get to savor it for long.  A few days later, he received news of the death of his grandson Jack in Minnesota.

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"The rich melody of the old songs  [ said the Hutchinson Leader ]":   "Married a Quarter Century," Hutchinson (MN) Leader, September 11, 1903, in Item 130r, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire.

"On January 4, 1904, John enjoyed his birthday at Tower Cottage":   "Eighty-Third Birthday Anniversary," Milford (NH) Cabinet, January 14, 1904, p. 1 col. 5.

"On May 4,  the Hutchinson family was the subject of the Milford":   Kate L. Birney, Milford, NH, May 4, 1904, in "Hutchinson Day," Milford (NH) Cabinet, May 12, 1904, p. 1 cols. 2-3, p. 7 cols. 2-3.  The text of Kate Birney's address is included in this Milford Cabinet article.  It is essential reading.

This event seems to mark the time when Brother Joshua's son,  Justin Edwards Hutchinson,  became a regular at the larger family functions.

"John W. Hutchinson,  said a news report,  is seriously ill":   "John W. Hutchinson, the last surviving member of the 'Hutchinson family,'" s.l.: s.n., n.d., in Item 129r, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire.

"I was very sick with pneumonia,  said John,  and given up":   Jane Eyre, clipping without title, s.l.: s.n., n.d., in Item 135v, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire.

After the many, many years which were covered so well by Story of the Hutchinsons, there are a number of gaps  -  some of good size  -  in the known biography of John from 1896 to 1908.  Clearly this bout with pneumonia occurred during one of them.  A search for information which would date this illness with certainty has not been productive.  Accounts given by John and by Grace Vincent imply that this sick spell occurred in the spring of 1903.

In the spring of 1902, the city of Lynn purchased the High Rock lands of the heirs of Charles O. Beede (real estate formerly owned by James N. Buffum).  In the months that followed, it was thought that progress was being made toward acquiring the High Rock summit from John.  Henry W. Eastham, mayor of Lynn, spoke of engaging in conferences with John to this effect beginning in early 1903.  And he named only John in this connection.  See "Old High Rock and Its Tower of Granite," Lynn (MA) Daily Evening Item, December 16, 1905, in Items 138v, 139r, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire.  This led to a May 26, 1904, signing of a deed for the property by John W. Hutchinson and Joseph D. Elms.  Notice the large gap in time between the start of the conferences and the signing of the deed.  Joseph D. Elms, as we shall see, was the first trustee for John's property.

It seems most probable that John's life-threatening illness took place in the spring of 1903, as both he and Grace A. Vincent seemed to suggest, and that the establishment of a trusteeship for his property quickly followed.  Thus, Joseph Elms would not have been involved in the conferences of early 1903, but he was needed to sign the deed for the summit of High Rock in May 1904

There is no other article in all of Hutchinson Family history quite like this piece published under the name, Jane Eyre.  If you know anything about this journalist called Jane Eyre (we do not know whether this is a birth name or a pseudonym) and you would be willing to share your information, please e-mail us by way of the contact link near the bottom of the page.

"Usually John spoke of this arrangement as having been imposed":   "Miss Vincent Broke the Engagement," Boston Evening Record, June 22, 1905, p. 4 cols. 4-5.

"Joseph D. Elms  was acting as trustee by the spring of 1904":   Joseph Elms was the husband of Brother Andrew's daughter Katie, who was close to both John and Abby.

"On May 26,  he and John gave the City of Lynn a deed":   "Old High Rock and Its Tower of Granite," Lynn (MA) Daily Evening Item, December 16, 1905.

Ownership of the summit of High Rock,  as I understand it,  was transfered specifically to Lynn's park commission instead of to the central city government.


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On Sunday, May 29, 1904,  Jack Hutchinson  drowned at Taylor's Falls, while on a camping trip.  He convinced one of his friends to go into the rapids.  They were thrown from their fragile canoe as it capsized and did not see the danger until they were drawn into a whirlpool.  Jack struggled against the current, but it pulled him under  -  never again to be seen alive.  On Monday, Dennett arrived, taking charge of the search for Jack's body.

On June 2, Jack's name was called first at the University of Minnesota's commencement exercises.  He was awarded the Doctor of Medicine degree, post obitum.  On the 5th, Jack's body was found in the river at Marine, eighteen miles from the spot where he drowned.  Among the Minnesota friends and family who went to Minneapolis to pay their last respects were Sam G. Anderson, Jr., and Dennett's son Fred D. Hutchinson.  Dennett's son Jesse C. Hutchinson accompanied the body to Lynn.  Jack's funeral took place at Tower Cottage on the 12th, and he was interred at the Eastern Burial Ground.  Ethel Morgan, speaking of her mother-in-law Lillie, said that Jack's death nearly killed her.

Jack Hutchinson's drowning death occurred well beyond the period covered by Story of the Hutchinsons.  No reference to it in either of the 1940s Hutchinson Family biographies comes to mind.  So it is surprising how many people know this tale and can tell it from memory with reasonable accuracy.  Clearly it caught the attention and touched the hearts of many folks who have an interest in the singing Hutchinsons.

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The High Rock Auditorium was dedicated on July 20.   When promoting this event, John announced an ambitious concert tour  -  starting in the Northeastern states, then into the Central states, through the South, up the Mississippi to Minnesota, back down to the St. Louis fair, and ending with two months in California.  It is doubtful John gave more than a tiny fraction of the 360 concerts he proposed; but he did sing for many people, and, one way or the other, he did hit many of the main geographic points he listed.

Late in August, a Hutchinson family reunion took place at the Milford homestead.  John sang an original song,  "Advanced Thought;"  and his granddaughter Kate  -  now Catherine Campbell Rapley  -  sang a solo and joined John in "The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man."  Most if not all the Hutchinsons present made music; and old friend Walter Kittredge sang.  An interesting feature was a performance on piano and mandolins by Kate Birney and two of her sons, Hale and Edmund Dearborn.  In the evening, the company listened to selections on a graphophone.

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"On June 2,  Jack's name was called first at the University":   "Drowned in Dalles of St. Croix," Hutchinson (MN) Leader, June 3, 1904, p. 1 cols. 6-7.

"Among the Minnesota friends and family who went to Minneapolis":   Little of Jack's personal history comes down to us.  One might surmise that the Minnesotans named in news stories, from the time of his drowning death to the departure of his body for Lynn, were among those who were closest to him.

Only one apparently unattached female was named,  Adelaide Ber,  and a romance between the two seems a good possibility.  United States Census searches, via HeritageQuest Online, plus searches of various genealogy Web sites and related databases produce remarkably few hits on the name, Adelaide Ber: generally one hit or none at all.  The Social Security Death Index, for instance, currently has a record for just one Adelaide Ber.  Searches of the Rootsweb.com WorldConnect Project and of FamilySearch.org produced no hits.  There may have been only one American by that name and with that spelling, so there seems to be little if any room for mistaken identity.  It appears that she never married.

"Jack's funeral took place at Tower Cottage on the 12th":   "Jack Hutchinson's Body Found," Hutchinson (MN) Leader, June 10, 1904, p. 4 col. 4;  and "Funeral of Dr. H. J. Hutchinson at Lynn, Mass." s.l.: s.n., n.d., originally published in Lynn (MA) Evening Item, June 13, 1904, in Item 132v, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire.  See also "Obituary," Milford (NH) Cabinet, June 16, 1904, p. 1 col. 6.

"When promoting this event,  John announced an ambitious":   "Sing for a Purpose," s.l.: s.n., n.d., in Item 133r, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire.

"In  the  evening,   the  company  listened  to  selections":   "Hutchinson Family Reunion," Milford (NH) Cabinet, September 1, 1904, p. 1 cols. 2-3.

John lived well into the sound-recording era, and it is hard to imagine that he failed to have his singing recorded at least once.  Yet no recordings of John are commonly known to exist.

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Henry John Hutchinson (1879-1904)


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In September, John visited the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis.   While he was away, on October 4 at 11 PM, Richard Hutchinson and Anna Peterson stood at the door of Rev. C. F. Weeden, pastor of Lynn's Central Congregational Church.  Richard surprised the minister by asking him to conduct a wedding.  Anna was living on High Rock, and Richard may have met her when she did secretarial work for John.  According to a news report, Anna was known as the prettiest "hello girl"  -  telephone operator  -  on the Cambridge exchange.  Richard sent a telegram to John at St. Louis, probably the day after the wedding; and John replied that he was surprised, but he wished them a long and happy life together.

In 1905, Cleaveland Campbell moved to Pittsburgh to represent a Boston bank; and by this time, his sister Kate was living in the Washington area.  These departures certainly didn't help John's relations with his daughter.  Viola, speaking of Cleaveland, said,  "He had always been my standby, and I had depended much upon him  -  his big heart and keen judgment had been to me a strong fortress under all circumstances. . . . "

On June 25,  John gave a party at his improved High Rock Auditorium.   Not much later he got a sad call,  following the death of Walter Kittredge on July 8.  John,  Kate Birney,  and her sons sang Kittredge's own  "There Is No Night There"  at his funeral.

After the war, many Americans revered Kittredge.   He got over 100 letters in 1898 alone about  "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground,"  though it had been a hit thirty-five years earlier.  Sales were still strong through the closing years of the nineteenth century.

It was totally fitting that Walter Kittredge attended and sang at the 1904 Hutchinson family reunion.  He was so closely connected with the family that he was a Hutchinson in all but name.

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By mid-June, talk was going around Lynn that Ellen Wetherell was suing John for breach of promise to marry.  Once this story got into the papers, John let it be known that he was engaged marry Grace Vincent.  She, on the other hand, said the engagement was broken.  After that, her mother said,  "If my daughter has made any statement to the effect that the engagement is broken, I shall be very much surprised."   Confused?

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"While he was away,  on October 4 at 11 PM, Richard Hutchinson":   "Secret Romance in Lynn Society," s.l.: s.n., n.d. [ dateline: Lynn, October 29, (1904,) ] in Item 131v, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire.

Richard, Anna, and family can be traced through available census reports to 1930; but otherwise, their life stories seem to be surprisingly obscure.  Published obituaries have not been located, and Richard and Anna are barely mentioned in available obituaries of their children.  Lillie's daughter-in-law Ethel Morgan, who added a good deal to Hutchinson family history, seemed not to be acquainted with Richard, and she made no specific mention of him in her taped interview.

Richard and Anna's children were Doris A. Hutchinson, Richard J. Hutchinson, and Bradford D. Hutchinson.  Some sources give the name of one son as Richard H. Hutchinson.  Doris was definitely interested in her Hutchinson family heritage.  She once identified herself to people in Milford as D. Abby Hutchinson McKenzie.  Her memorabilia was sold at auction in 1990, following her death, and it is unknown what was included and what became of it.  Bradford is known to have taken an interest in genealogy, but what became of his research results is unknown.  Bradford's obituary did not give the surname of his daughter, Kathleen, making further inquiry difficult at best.

"In 1905,  Cleaveland Campbell moved to Pittsburgh to represent":   Ludlow Patton's influence probably helped steer Cleaveland, like many other members of the Hutchinson family, into a career in banking and finance.

"Viola,  speaking of Cleaveland,  said,  He had always been":   Viola Hutchinson Campbell, Memories of a Busy Life (Plymouth, MA: privately printed [ The Rogers Print (Shop) ], 1926), 95.

"On June 25,  John gave a party at his improved High Rock":   "John W. Hutchinson," s.l.: s.n., n.d., in Item 134v, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire.

John,   Kate  Birney,   and  her  sons  sang  Kittredge's":   "Obituary," Milford (NH) Cabinet, July 13, 1905, p. 1 col. 6.

"He got over 100 letters in 1898 alone about  Tenting":   Gordon Hall Gerould, "'Tenting on the Old Camp Ground,' and Its Composer," New England Magazine 20 (August 1899): 730.

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Walter Kittredge (1834-1905)


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As the tale unfolded, it was revealed that John Hutchinson and Grace Vincent became engaged, with conditions, not long after John's birthday party in 1903.  They planned, then postponed a wedding several times.  The story got much attention partly because of the difference in their ages.  John was eighty-four.  Most news reports agreed that Grace was in her twenties  -  John said she was thirty, which seems to be right.  Further attention was paid to the conditions, which involved John giving her one half of his stock in the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad.

"There is no secret,"  said Grace,  "that at one time I was engaged to Mr. Hutchinson.   I took pity on him.  He was practically alone in the world.   I esteemed him, as he was a very interesting man to meet.  He told me that he would take me to Europe, give me the benefit of a good musical education, and we would travel as long as I wished. . . .   I have written Mr. Hutchinson's attorney and have asked them to see him and persuade him to desist from any more talk upon this line. . . .   They have promised to counsel him to keep a quiet tongue."

At this time, John seemed never to tire of reciting stories about his failed romances.  The women involved were generally quite young.  They ranged from pretty to uncommonly beautiful.  He said,  "I have loved women  -  not woman  -  many of them."   "Why, I've always loved young women running over with enthusiasm, cheerfulness and good spirits."  These liaisons, and the publicity that followed, exasperated Viola.  Yet one reporter, following an interview, commented,  "[A]fter that little talk with him the engagement really didn't seem incongruous at all."

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When reporter Jane Eyre arrived at Tower Cottage, John stood on the back walk and greeted her warmly.  They passed through a building that was being renovated; and then they stepped out into the open-air auditorium.  They sat on the stage and talked.  She found John to be a gracious host, with impeccable manners and a certain dignity to him.  His appearance combined elements of youth and great age.  John's shoulders were stooped and his hair and beard were white.  The skin of his face was pink and free of wrinkles; his hands were smooth and his nails well-manicured.  His clothes were tailor-made and his shoes were immaculate.

Eyre remarked that the lawsuit didn't seem to bother John.  "Dear me, no,"  he said.  After going through part of his list of failed romances, John observed,  "I've been engaged more in reform than anything else, and so you see I'm engaged most every day."

Finally, John and Richard serenaded their guest.   John threw his head back, sang, and played a small melodeon.  Eyre took away sympathy and respect for her host.  "The voice . . . though old, has not lost its power,"  she wrote,  "that mind so keen has not lost its wit, the character so strong . . . is today still marked with a distinction which old age has not had the power to shatter."   " . . . I venture to say that the patriarch of High Rock would never think of getting married for love alone; that is to say  -  he would give a home  -  and expect companionship."

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"Most news reports agreed that Grace was in her twenties  -  John":   According to the 1900 United States Census, Grace Vincent was born in January 1874.

"There is no secret,  said Grace,  that at one time I was":   "Miss Vincent Broke the Engagement," Boston Evening Record, June 22, 1905, p. 4 col. 4.  This article includes a fine photograph of John and Grace.

It is interesting that Grace thought of John as nearly alone in the world.   Though he always enjoyed an unusually large circle of friends, late in life several of them referred to him as lonely.  His relations with Viola were badly strained, while his closest relatives lived in New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Minnesota, and Washington, DC.  When this romance began, as far as is known John's grandson Richard had not yet come to live with him.

Though John and Grace differed over whether she had told him the engagement was off, otherwise their stories were about the same.  They agreed, for instance, that John was unable to keep the promises he had made to Grace; and John blamed this primarily on the fact that his property was in the hands of a trustee.

"He said,  I have loved women  -  not woman  -  many of them":   "Fiction Chronicles No Stranger Tales Than the Love Stories of This Venerable Bard of High Rock," [ Boston Sunday American, ] n.d., in Item 135r, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire.

As John enjoyed telling stories of his unrequited loves, so newspapers were eager to publish them.  Clippings  -  accompanied by photographs of many of the women John mentioned  -  are plentiful in Ludlow's scrapbook.  They make for strange reading matter.

Oddly, speaking of Ellen Wetherell, John told a reporter,  "The idea of my marrying the girl is preposterous, as I am old enough to be her grandfather."  See "Bard of Lynn to Fight," s.l.: s.n., n.d., [ dateline: Lynn, July 16, 1905 ], in Item 135r, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire.  Ellen Wetherell was said to be around age 50 and, according to the 1900 United States Census, she was born in March 1852.

A very few longer articles are based on more wide-ranging interviews; in these, John sounds pretty much as he did in earlier times: e.g., "Fiction Chronicles No Stranger Tales," as above; Jane Eyre, clipping without title, s.l.: s.n., n.d., in Item 135v, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire.

"Yet  one  reporter,   following  an  interview,   commented":   "Marriage Matter of Souls, Says Lynn Bard," Boston Post, June 20, 1905.

"Dear me, no,  he said.  After going through part of his list":   Jane Eyre, clipping without title, s.l.: s.n., n.d., in Item 135v, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire.

"The voice  . . .  though old,  has not lost its power," she wrote":   Jane Eyre, clipping without title, s.l.: s.n., n.d., in Item 135v, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire.


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By mid-July, the papers were served in Ellen Wetherell's $25,000 breach of promise to marry case.

In mid-August, John left for Portsmouth.   President Theodore Roosevelt was negotiating what became the Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russian-Japanese war.  John intended to sing peace to the diplomats.  The day he left home, he telegrammed Agnes Everest in Washington, asking her to help with this work.

On August 24, 1905, John asked Agnes to tour the country with him, singing and advocating reform.  She said it would not be proper, and she would only travel with him as husband and wife.  Agnes may have surprised even herself, for she had already rejected a couple of his proposals.  "All right, husband and wife it is,"  he said.  That afternoon, John and Agnes were married by Mayor William E. Marvin.  The ceremony was said to be short and impressive  -  not unlike their engagement.  After the wedding, John played piano and he and his bride sang.  Next, the new couple visited Green Acre in Maine, and then they went home to Lynn.

"I do not know this Mrs. Everest,"  said Viola,  "but it is plain to me that there is but one thing that could attract a young woman to a man of 84  -  and that is money. . . .   I gave up trying to save my father from disgrace years ago, but this is the last straw."   "[I]t seems to me that any woman who cared for her own reputation would not have married him in the sly, underhanded way . . . that this woman did."  Another paper quoted Viola as saying,  "It is another scandal that we, the members of his family, must live down."   "I have called a family council and we shall take steps to have this outrageous marriage annulled."

When Emily Vincent, Grace's mother, heard the news, she laughed, saying she was thankful John had someone to support him.   "I shall be the first to send him congratulations,"  she said.  Ellen Wetherell called Agnes  "a most charming woman with a magnetic personality."  Richard said,  "We all know Mrs. Everest . . . and think she is a very estimable woman.  She lived here at High Rock in one of grandfather's houses for several years."

John and Agnes began their wedding tour on August 26.   At Tower Cottage, they were greeted by Richard, his wife Anna, and their little daughter Doris.  On the 28th, they started by train for Milford to take part in the family reunion on Sister Abby's birthday.  This year, as was so often the case, it took place at the homestead and was hosted by Rhoda's daughter Nellie Webster and her husband Charles.  Judson's daughter Kate Birney managed to round up all four of her sons, who treated the gathering to instrumental selections.

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"By mid-July, the papers were served in Ellen Wetherell's":   "Local News," Milford (NH) Daily Pointer, July 17, 1905, p. 4 col. 2.

"The day he left home,  he telegrammed Agnes Everest":   "Bard Talks Love," Boston Post, August 26, 1905, p. 1 col. 3, p. 12 cols. 1-3.

"On August 24, 1905,  John asked Agnes to tour the country":   "John W. Hutchinson Finds 'Golden Girl'," Boston Daily Globe, August 25, 1905, p. 1 cols. 4-5.

Agnes' sense that it would be improper for her to travel the country with John unless they were married, even if partly intended as humorous  -  turning the tables on him after twice rejecting his marriage proposals  -  is an interesting point.  One might well wonder whether this same sense may have been a consideration when Ludlow Patton married his frequent travel companion, Marion Loveridge.

"I do not know this Mrs. Everest,  said Viola,  but it is plain":   "No Money There," Boston Evening Record, August 26, 1905, p. 2 col. 2.

"Another paper quoted Viola as saying, "It is another scandal":   "Says Bard's Bride Will Not Have an Easy Time," Boston Journal, August 26, 1905, p. 2 col. 4.

When John got home, he found a message from Viola saying,  "It is not true that I am to take steps to have your marriage annulled."  See "How the Bridegroom Bard Came Home," Boston Post, August 29, 1905, p. 10 cols. 3-4.  No doubt John took this as a retraction, not a denial.  Speaking of Richard, one published report said that  "the grandson, and adopted son also, of the octogenarian, who lives in his grandfather's mansion house at High Rock, makes light of the whole affair and declares that nothing now will be done to mar the old gentleman's happiness."  See "Bard Talks Love," Boston Post, August 26, 1905, p. 1 col. 3, p. 12 cols. 1-3.  Clearly Viola would receive no encourage from Richard regarding her annulment plans.  It seems likely, too, that she lacked the support of other heirs.  Viola's children, Cleaveland and Kate, unlike their mother probably already knew Agnes.

"When Emily Vincent,  Grace's mother,  heard the news":   "Says Bard's Bride Will Not Have an Easy Time," Boston Journal, August 26, 1905, p. 2 col. 4.

"Ellen Wetherell called Agnes  a most charming woman":   "Says Bard's Bride Will Not Have an Easy Time," Boston Journal, August 26, 1905, p. 2 col. 4.

Ellen Wetherell stated that John's marriage would have no affect on her lawsuit against him.

Whether intended or not, John peppered Story of the Hutchinsons with little clues for further research.  Following one of them turned up the fact, never mentioned as far as is known in the seemingly countless print references to Ellen F. Wetherell, that her family went back many decades with the Hutchinsons.  In June 1842, just before the original quartet's grand start, the Hutchinson brothers gave concerts at Concord, New Hampshire, with Wetherell's uncle, Lyman Heath.  He, of course, was soon highly regarded for music he contributed to the Hutchinsons' repertoire.

"Richard said,  We all know Mrs. Everest  . . .  and think she is":   "Bard Talks Love," Boston Post, August 26, 1905, p. 1 col. 3, p. 12 cols. 1-3.

Agnes Everest, having resided for a couple years or more on High Rock in one of John's houses, was well known to Lynn folk.  "We all know Mrs. Everest,"  said Richard Hutchinson,  "and think she is a very estimable woman."  Compare this to Viola's declaration,  "I do not know this Mrs. Everest."

A spare outline of Agnes' personal history may be put together from census reports, news clippings in Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, and various scattered sources.  The main published reference regarding Agnes' personal history is one part of a larger article.  The section  -  something like a sidebar  -  which concentrated on Agnes' life was based on an interview with Agnes' former mother-in-law, Mrs. Everest.  Her telling of Agnes' story became so garbled somehow that it is practically unciteable.  It is easily one of the worst pieces of journalism this researcher has ever seen.  Yet when used in combination with as many other sources as possible, it starts to make some degree of sense.

As a young woman, Agnes managed to find the means to get a music education and do a little traveling.  While studying in Philadelphia, she met and fell in love with Dewitt C. Everest.  The two wanted to get married, but Everest's mother and his sister Nellie opposed the union.

Later, Agnes married George Porcher Postell, with whom she had her only child.   Little is presently known of their time together.  It was almost certainly in the period after Postell died that Agnes met John Hutchinson and he first proposed marriage to her.  At just the right time, John and Agnes can both be placed in New York City.  Late in life, strange to say, John delighted in reciting a list of his failed romances, including one with a woman who he met on a train to Washington.  One might wonder whether this woman may have been Agnes.  It was after she met John that Agnes married Dewitt Everest.  Clearly by this time they were both of an age to make up their own minds as to whether they should be married.  We are never actually told why Mrs. Everest and Nellie had originally opposed this pairing.  Dewitt Everest was said to be a gifted violinist.  Perhaps they simply thought he should concentrate on his music.

After Everest died, Agnes resided with her son and his family for a spell.   Then she moved to High Rock.  Thereafter she became a more prominent part of the Hutchinson family story.

One gets very little sense of the company Agnes was keeping from this bare-bones telling of her life's history.  And not a lot more information is currently available.  But as it turns out, Agnes' father-in-law, Cornelius Everest, was a highly regarded musician and educator.  A May 9, 1879, Philadelphia Academy of Music production of La fille du régiment (English) came with the listing, "maestro direttore: Cornelius Everest," and the following interesting note:  "John Philip Sousa, a member of the Chestnut Street Theatre orchestra, prepared the orchestra parts for The daughter of the regiment."  See "Opera in Philadelphia: Performance Chronology 1875-1899," frankhamilton.org/ph/pha.pdf, accessed August 28, 2006.  The wife of Cornelius, Ellen Everest  -  our main information source  -  was a talented vocalist.  But it is really Nellie W. Everest, as her name was given to a census taker, who one easily may learn most about.  She shed the nickname, Nellie; and as Philadelphia soprano Eleanor Warner Everest, she got a little early front-page press for a program made up exclusively of works by American composers in which she sang.  Violinist Maud Powell was among the players.  The New York Times reported,  "Mr. Dudley Buck, Prof. Paine of Harvard, Mr. Van der Stücken, and Mr. Arthur Gordon Weld will direct the performance of their own compositions."  See "American Music Only," New York Times, March 26, 1890, p. 1.  Future Boston Symphony Orchestra music director Serge Koussevitzky must have been there in spirit.

Eleanor W. Everest married Archibald E. Freer.   And as Eleanor Everest Freer of Chicago, she became a major proponent of American opera.  See Thomas Warburton, "Eleanor Everest Freer and the American Opera Movement," The Opera Journal, December 1996, pp. 2-11.  Many of her own compositions were short and intended largely for instructional purposes.  Nonetheless, it appears she may have had a gift.  Descriptions of various pieces present Freer's work as charmingly inventive.

"This  year,   as  was  so  often  the  case,   it  took  place":   "Annual Reunion of the Hutchinson Family," Milford (NH) Cabinet, August 31, 1905, p. 1 cols. 4-5.

It seems to be generally unknown whether a copy of the paper delivered by Chestina Hutchinson Wooster at this gathering still exists.  If you know and would be willing to share your information, please e-mail us by way of the contact link near the bottom of the page.


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After the reunion, John, Agnes, and evidently Richard led peace services in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts.  Then on September 30, they left for Minnesota to celebrate the town of Hutchinson's fiftieth anniversary.  Dennett, his wife Nellie, and their daughter Bess came from Minneapolis.

On October 16, John, Agnes, Richard, and Maude Stocking, gave a concert at the Opera House.  Like many Hutchinson Family shows a half-century earlier, this one began with  "We're with You Once Again,"  ended with  "The Old Granite State,"  and included some new songs in between.  "The People's Advent"  was sung as a trio.  John's voice,  said the Hutchinson Leader,  retained its sweetness to a remarkable degree.  "Mrs. Hutchinson, a recent addition to the family, . . . is worthy to bear the name as she is a sweet soprano singer having a cultivated voice, and sings with fine expression and quality.  Richard Hutchinson inherits a large measure of his grandfather's talent for music and his trained tenor voice is one of the best ever heard here."

Once back home, John got ready for an event that was dear to him  -  the dedication of the park atop High Rock.  On December 16, the ceremony began in the high school, because of cold weather; negotiations for the park took decades, and many who took part were now elderly.  The audience, 1,000 strong, enthusiastically greeted John, Agnes, and Richard, who sang three songs including  "Old High Rock."  John said his eyes did not serve him as well as he wished, and Agnes would read his address.  Vanity, on the other hand, had served John well all his life; and he was not about to wear his glasses in public.  When the exercises were completed, a procession passed through Essex Street and Hutchinson Court to the summit.  John, accompanied by the band, led the singing of "The Star Spangled Banner."

For John, 1905 was one of the busiest, most event-filled years in a long, long time.  It must have come as a welcome relief.

By the first days of 1906, John and Agnes were on their way to California.  They visited New York and Washington, where John was given a birthday party.  "Although Mr. Hutchinson is eighty-five years old,"  said the Washington Post,  "he still has a remarkable voice, and sang several selections during the afternoon."  He and Agnes stayed about ten days and then left for New Orleans and the Mardi Gras.  After this, known records of them quickly grew scarce until after they got home.  There is no telling how much singing was involved.  It is doubtful this was the grand concert tour John announced a year earlier; but it was a grand trip nonetheless.  John came home to his new great-grandson, Richard J. Hutchinson, who was born on March 10.  Then John committed one of the most remarkable acts of his life.  One might say it was out of character.

He retired.

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"Then on September 30,  they left for Minnesota to celebrate":   "Purely Personal," Hutchinson (MN) Leader, October 6, 1905, p. 16 cols. 1-3.

"On October 16, John, Agnes, Richard, and Maude Stocking":   "Musical Recital by the Hutchins'n Family," Hutchinson (MN) Leader, October 13, 1905, p. 1 cols. 1-3.

Pianist Maude Stocking's name appears several times in Hutchinson family records, and it seems she accompanied them on a number of occasions.  At the time of the 1900 census, she was a near neighbor of Jack Hutchinson.

"Mrs. Hutchinson,  a recent addition to the family,  . . .  is worthy":   "A Delightful Musical Recital," Hutchinson (MN) Leader, October 20, 1905, p. 1 col. 3.

John, Agnes, and Richard sang together often enough that it seems fair to say John was leading his own company once again.  They performed after this at special events; and it is entirely possible, even likely, that they gave more concerts.  But this seems to be the last such event for which we still have both a press notice and a detailed program.

In the October 16 concert, Agnes performed several songs that probably had not yet found their way into Hutchinson Family programs prior to her advent as a member of the Tribe of John.  She sang "My Dreams," with lyrics by Frederic E. Weatherly and music by F. Paolo Tosti; "Sing, Smile, Slumber," a Victor Hugo piece set to music by Charles Gounod; Carl Bohm's "Still as the Night;" and "Violets," featuring lyrics by Julian Fane, from the German of H. Heine, and music by Ellen Wright.

"Once back home, John got ready for an event that was dear":   E.g., on May 10, 1873, John wrote to the Mayor and Common Council of Lynn, donating the summit of High Rock to the city.  For some reason, the donation was not completed.  See "Old High Rock and Its Tower of Granite," Lynn (MA) Daily Evening Item, December 16, 1905.  Of course Jesse raised the subject as early as 1848.

As John grew older, many Lynn citizens seem to have become increasingly concerned that his High Rock property might pass, at his death, into less altruistic hands.  Thus, talk of acquiring the summit for a park picked up greatly in the 1890s.

"The audience,  1,000 strong,  enthusiastically greeted":   "Old High Rock and Its Tower of Granite," Lynn (MA) Daily Evening Item, December 16, 1905.  "The Dedication of High Rock Tower," Lynn (MA) Daily Evening Item, December 18, 1905, in Item 139r, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire.

John's avoidance of wearing his glasses in public was not the only story of his vanity.  For amusing reactions to his habit of having his hair up in curlers, see Carol Brink, Harps in the Wind: The Story of the Singing Hutchinsons (New York: Macmillan, 1947), 114; and Dale Cockrell, ed., Excelsior: Journals of the Hutchinson Family Singers, 1842-1846 (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1989), 342 and n. 45.

"Although  Mr.  Hutchinson  is  eighty-five  years  old":   "Bard Sings to His Guests," Washington Post, January 5, 1906.

"He and Agnes stayed about ten days and then left for New Orleans":   "John Hutchinson and wife of Lynn," s.l.: s.n., March 10, 1906, in Item 126r, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford, New Hampshire.

"Then John committed one of the most remarkable acts of his life":   "Famous Bard of High Rock Passed Away Early Today," Lynn (MA) Daily Evening Item, October 29, 1908, p. 1.


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On August 29, John and Agnes hosted a family reunion.   The program began with Abby's  "Ring Out, Wild Bells"  played on the chimes at St. Stephens Church.  Kate Rapley and Richard Hutchinson, John's grandchildren, sang, as did Judson's daughter Kate Birney and her son Dr. Jesse Dearborn.  And of course John and Agnes sang.  A banquet was served on the lawn.  Very little is generally known about the recent activities of Ludlow Patton.  On this occasion, Kate Birney read his letter of regret that he could not take part in this gathering.

Thursday, September 6, 1906, was a sad day; Ludlow Patton was found dead at his Linden Place home in Orange.  He was survived by his wife Marion and their daughter Helen.  Ludlow's funeral took place at the Milford homestead on the 10th.  The service was conducted by his nephew, Rev. Cornelius H. Patton.  John and Agnes sang "No Night There," and at the close of the service the family sang "Nearer My God to Thee."  Ludlow was buried beside his first wife, Abby Hutchinson Patton, in the family cemetery on Milford's North River Road.

Ludlow's importance to the Hutchinsons was beyond measure.  He was like a brother to them, served as their business manager at one time, and was their financial adviser at all times.  Ludlow often sang in public with Abby and John, particularly after he retired from the stock exchange.  Only John was his equal as a Hutchinson Family historian.

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Agnes found fault with Joseph D. Elms' management of John's finances, and Elms resigned early in 1907.  That summer, John and Agnes spent some time apart.  Meanwhile, John threatened to rescind his donation of the High Rock summit, because the park commissioners refused to build a stairway on the south side.  But there were fun times, as well.  That summer, John sang at a gathering in the Lynn Woods.  And the struggle over the appointment of a new trustee for John's property ended in November when he agreed to Fred H. Nichols for that role.

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Late in life,  John took an interest in Christian Science.  On the evening of October 28, he attended a church function, had a good time, and returned home in fine spirits.  The next morning he got up and lit a gas stove, while preparing for his bath.  John turned on the gas, then fell.  Not long after this, Agnes found him and turned off the gas; but it was too late.  He could not be revived.  On Thursday morning, October 29, 1908, John W. Hutchinson died of gas inhalation.

Fred Nichols took charge of affairs at Tower Cottage.

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"On August 29,  John and Agnes hosted a family reunion":   "Annual Reunion of the Hutchinson Family at High Rock, Lynn," Milford (NH) Cabinet, September 6, 1906, p. 1 col. 3.

"Thursday, September 6, 1906, was a sad day; Ludlow Patton":   "Ludlow Patton Dead," New York Times, September 7, 1906, p. 9 col. 6; "Funeral of Ludlow Patton at the Hutchinson Homestead," Milford (NH) Cabinet, September 13, 1906, p. 1 col. 4.

"Only John was his equal as a Hutchinson Family historian":   Asa is the other member of the trio of great, early Hutchinson Family historians.  His journal entries and collected papers, along with the songsters he compiled, taken together, form a major body of information about the singing group as well as about the family as a whole.  His descendants seem to have done a superlative job of keeping his papers from being lost or destroyed.  A tip of the hat to the Tribe of Asa.

"Agnes found fault with Joseph D. Elms' management of John's":   "Famous Bard of High Rock Passed Away Early Today," Lynn (MA) Daily Evening Item, October 29, 1908, pp. 1, 11.  Regarding John and Agnes being apart for a while in 1907, marital discord may have been implied.  But it could have been simply that Agnes traveled to attend the wedding of her son and that she spent some time with him.  Regarding High Rock, see Elizabeth Hope Cushing and others, Historic Landscape Report: High Rock Reservation, Lynn, Massachusetts (Boston: Boston Univ., American and New England Studies Program, 1986), 27, 28-29.

"On Thursday morning, October 29, 1908, John W. Hutchinson died":   "John W. Hutchinson Dead," New York Times, October 30, 1908, p. 9 cols. 5-6.  According to this notice, citing the authority of Medical Examiner Joseph G. Pinkham,  "the amount inhaled would not have affected a person in good health."

"Fred  Nichols  took  charge  of  affairs  at  Tower  Cottage":   At the time, Fred Nichols thought there would be no dispute over the disposition of the estate.

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John Wallace Hutchinson (1821-1908)
Ludlow Patton (1825-1906)


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"To him,"  wrote Brother Joshua long ago,  "belong many of the laurels so lavishly bestowed by the press in the years that have marked the popularity of the 'Hutchinson Family.'"  After describing some of his characteristics, Joshua said that if not for those qualities in John, the Hutchinsons would have scarcely been known outside of Milford.  "With his gray hair and beard,"  said the Lynn Item,  "both allowed to grow with great luxuriance, and his straight carriage, clear eye and sweet voice, his was a figure to be remembered.  His nature was especially merry and hopeful, and was able to rise above the petty troubles that make so hard a lot of life to many."

John's funeral took place at Tower Cottage on the afternoon of November 1, 1908.   The service was conducted by Rev. Varnum A. Cooper, Superintendent of Boston's Home for Little Wanderers and formerly the pastor of Lynn's First Methodist Church.  Rev. Cooper said, "He was choir-master of a choir of bards who sang for a nation."   "In his repertory there was no vice that his songs did not strike; no virtue that was not promoted."   John was interred at the Eastern Burial Ground in Lynn.

After the funeral, members of the family gathered, and Fred Nichols opened John's sealed effects.  One of the provisions of his will would tie up his estate, in trust, for fifteen years, to provide for Agnes.  Not surprisingly, some of John's heirs were dissatisfied with this arrangement.  The race to consult lawyers was on.

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"To him,  wrote Brother Joshua long ago,  belong many":   Joshua Hutchinson, A Brief Narrative of the Hutchinson Family (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1874), 42-44.

"With his gray hair and beard,  said the Lynn Item,  both":   "Famous Bard of High Rock Passed Away Early Today," Lynn (MA) Daily Evening Item, October 29, 1908, p. 1.

"Rev. Cooper said,  He was choir-master of a choir of bards":   "Sang His Favorites," Boston Daily Globe, November 2, 1908.

Rev. V. A. Cooper had ministered to Henry and Fanny during their last illnesses.

"John was interred at the Eastern Burial Ground in Lynn":   The vandalism to the Eastern Burial Ground that occurred between about 1980 and the summer of 2000 is astonishing.  At the time of my first visit, one Hutchinson family headstone was tipped over.  The most recent time, one heavy, blocky stone was tipped over and all the other grave stones connected to the Hutchinsons were gone.  As I understand it, the Hutchinson family headstones most likely were stolen.

"After the funeral,  members of the family gathered":   "Gas Fumes Kill Famous Bard of High Rock," Boston Post, October 30, 1908, p. 7 col. 3; "Uncle John's Money Still Making Trouble," Milford (NH) Cabinet, December 3, 1908, p. 1 col. 4.

John Hutchinson's will was settled in 1909.   Fred H. Nichols and Joseph C. Norton of Lynn were appointed as executors.

Fred H. Nichols seems to have been a son of the Thomas P. Nichols who printed the original booklet account of John W. Hutchinson's 70th birthday celebration.  In 1907, Fred became the second trustee or conservator for John's property.

Joseph C. Norton was a Boston piano tuner who resided in Lynn.

Esther M. Hutchinson, along with an un-named third party, skillfully researched this settlement in 1912 for her father, George Hutchinson.  The trail then was a good deal warmer than it is today, and this study has benefitted from certain of Esther's findings.  There was thought at the time of contacting Agnes Hutchinson or, more likely, Harry Campbell.  It would be fascinating to know if anyone ever did and what were the results.  More on this elsewhere.

Agnes Hutchinson had one son, George Wallace Postell, from her first marriage.  It is said that when she left Tower Cottage in Lynn, evidently around the time John's will was settled or possibly earlier, she moved to Boston.  If this is so, she did not stay there long.  According to the 1910 United States Census, she was living with her son in Alabama, where, according to her granddaughter Eleanor, she remained until the time of her death.

Richard D. Hutchinson returned to dental school, and it seems likely that his inheritance from John's estate paid his educational expenses.  Efforts to locate a published obituary or even to determine his date and place of death have been unsuccessful.  Living descendants who we have contacted say they know nothing about him.  But one of Richard's sons is known to have prepared a family history, so there is hope.  If you know what became of Richard D. Hutchinson and his family after 1930 or if you know where a copy of Bradford D. Hutchinson's genealogy records may be found and you would be willing to share this information, please e-mail us by way of the contact link toward the bottom of the page.

Lillie Morgan, according to her family's account, used money willed to her by John to purchase a retirement home and a neighboring lot.  Lillie's daughter-in-law, Ethel Morgan, said that Lillie sang to the end of her days.  Little more is known of her late years.

Lewis Campbell's health broke down, and he went to live with his daughter, probably partly in search for a more healthful climate.  He had a business address listed in the 1905 Boston city directory, but the directory does not name the firm nor say anything about what line it was in.  I have never been able to make out information in the 1910 United States Census as to Lewis Campbell's occupation.  It may say that he was treasurer for some business; but the words to the right of what I take to say "treasurer" are totally illegible in the HeritageQuest scanned image.  If you have information about his work late in life and would be willing to share what you know, please e-mail us by way of the contact link toward the bottom of the page.

Harry Campbell, as noted elsewhere in this book, was in the Massachusetts state militia at the time of the famed 1912 "Bread and Roses" labor strike, and he had some degree of involvement in that contest.  This is a topic that calls for further research.  Harry had a varied career, first as a printer while working his way through law school, then as a Massachusetts practicing attorney, and finally entering the world of business and settling in New York.  He died fairly young and quite unexpectedly.  Getting Harry's biography straight would not be the easiest task that could be set before a researcher.  One example of the difficulties is that his widow is well recorded at a major genealogy Web site but only in relation to her second  husband: there is not even an allusion to her marriage to Henry Douglas Campbell nor to their children.  Further research is possible, and it is clearly needed.  Fortunately, his branch of the Campbell/Hutchinson family now has its own family historian.

Cleaveland Campbell always loved the ancestral home of the Hutchinson side of his family.  When he retired, he settled in Amherst, New Hampshire, with his sister Kate Rapley.  Cleaveland was quite active in Amherst's civic affairs, and he was very interested in Hutchinson family history.  Kate seems to have lived a quieter, more private life.  Published sources do not agree as to her daughter's given name or even which coast she lived on.  Late in life, Viola Hutchinson Campbell moved from the Boston area to live with her children in Amherst, New Hampshire.  Published sources say that Viola was buried beside her husband, but her remains are actually with those of her children: Cleaveland, Harry, Kate, and Colin.  In the early 1990s, for some reason most of Viola's death certificate was available online through the librarians' Worldcat database.  That same March 1, 1977, Worldcat record still exists (Accession No: OCLC: 2768036), but the abstract of the death certificate has been removed.



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Massachusetts, MA, Mass.; Minnesota, Minn., MN; New Hampshire, N. H., NH; New Jersey, N.J., NJ. Essex County, Hillsboro County, Hillsborough County, McLeod County. Lynn Massachusetts, Hutchinson Minnesota, Amherst New Hampshire, Milford New Hampshire, Mont Vernon New Hampshire, Orange New Jersey, City of New York City. Cellist, cello, fiddle, fiddler, melodeon player, violin, violinist, violoncello. Baptist, Christian Science, Christian Scientist, Congregational, Congregationalist, Methodist, Unitarian Universalist. The Book of Brothers, Carol Brink Harps in the Wind: The Story of the Singing Hutchinsons, Carol Ryrie Brink, Carol R Brink, Dale Cockrell Excelsior: Journals of the Hutchinson Family Singers 1842-1846, John Wallace Hutchinson "Story of the Hutchinsons (Tribe of Jesse)", "Story of the Hutchinsons", Joshua Hutchinson A Brief Narrative of the Hutchinson Family, Philip Jordan, Philip Dillon Jordan, Philip D Jordan Singin Yankees, Phil Jordan, Ludlow Patton The Hutchinson Family Scrapbook. Index: Singing Yankees. 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930. Birth, born, death, died, divorce, divorced, maiden, marriage, married, single, unmarried. Ancestry, www.ancestry.com, the Boston Globe, family history, genealogy. Abolition, abolitionism, abolitionist, anniversary, anti-slavery, antislavery, audience, band, biography, chorus, church, the Civil War, company, compose, composer, composition, concert, convention, entertain, entertainment, folk music, folk songs, folksongs, group, harmony, High Rock in Lynn, Hutchison, instrument, instrumental, lyricist, lyrics, meeting, musician, N E, NE, NEMS, New England Music Scrapbook, Northeast, Northeastern, the Old Granite State, practice, profile, program, quartet, rehearsal, rehearse, religious left, repertoire, research, the Revels' Circle of Song, show, singer, social reform, social reformer, song writer, songwriter, stage, equal suffrage, suffragette, equal suffragist, impartial suffrage, impartial suffragist, temperance, tour, the Tribe of Jesse, trio, troupe, verse, vocal, vocalist, woman's rights, women's rights, words. Augusta, Crosby, Donomore, Hopkins, Gertrude, Hambrecht, Schuetz, Lowell, Winchester. Abby Anderson, Abby Hutchinson Anderson, Abby H Anderson, Samuel Anderson, Samuel Gilmore Anderson, Samuel G Anderson, Catherine Campbell, Catherine Livingston Campbell, Catherine L Campbell, Kate Campbell, Kate L Campbell, Cleaveland Campbell, Cleaveland John Campbell, Cleaveland J Campbell, C J Campbell, Cleave Campbell, Henry Campbell, Henry Douglas Campbell, Henry D Campbell, H Douglas Campbell, H D Campbell, Harry Campbell, Lewis Campbell, Lewis Averill Campbell, Lewis A Campbell, Viola Campbell, Viola Gertrude Hutchinson Campbell, Viola Campbell, Viola G Campbell, Viola Campbell, Viola Hutchinson Campbell, Viola H Campbell, Elizabeth Chace, Elizabeth B Chace, Lizzie Chace, Lizzie B Chace, Abby Hutchinson, Abby J Hutchinson, Asa Hutchinson, Asa Burnham Hutchinson, Asa B Hutchinson, David Hutchinson, Elizabeth Hutchinson, Elizabeth Chace Hutchinson, Elizabeth C Hutchinson, Lizzie Hutchinson, Lizzie Chace Hutchinson, Lizzie C Hutchinson, Esther Hutchinson, Esther Mahala Hutchinson, Esther M Hutchinson, Fanny Hutchinson, Fanny B Hutchinson, Henry Hutchinson, Henry John Hutchinson, Henry J Hutchinson, Jerusha Hutchinson, Jerusha Peabody Hutchinson, Jerusha P Hutchinson, Jesse Hutchinson Jr, Jesse Hutchinson Junior, Jesse Hutchinson Jun, John Hutchinson, John Wallace Hutchinson, John W Hutchinson, Joshua Hutchinson, Judson Hutchinson, Adoniram Judson Joseph Hutchinson, Judson J Hutchinson, J J Hutchinson, Kate Hutchinson, Kate Louise Hutchinson, Kate L Hutchinson, Mary Hutchinson, Mary Leavitt Hutchinson, Mary L Hutchinson, Noah Hutchinson, Noah Bartlett Hutchinson, Noah B Hutchinson, Rhoda Hutchinson, Sarah Rhoda Jane Hutchinson, Rhoda J Hutchinson, Viola Hutchinson, Viola G Hutchinson, Abby Patton, Abby Hutchinson Patton, Abby H Patton. 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Heralds of Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers: Chapter 22: Part 2: With Angel Voices Blending 1903-1908