History of McPhersonville, (Hampton County) South Carolina United States of America

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Charles Woodward Hutton, educator, was born at McPhersonville, S.C., Sept. 23, 1840; son of William Ferguson and Sophronia Lucia (Palmer) Hutson; grandson of Richard Woodward and Martha O'Rielly (Ferguson) Hutson, and of the Rev. Edward and Sarah (Bunce) Palmer, both descended from early colonists of New England; and a descendant of the Rev. William Hutson, who came from England to America in 1740, settling near Stoney Creek church, Prince William's parish, S.C., marrying Mary Woodward, a descendant of the oldest settlers in the colony. Charles Woodward Hutson was graduated from South Carolina college, Columbia, S.C., in 1860, and served in the Confederate army as private in the Hampton Legion, infantry, 1861-62, and the Beaufort artillery, 1862-65. He was professor of Greek at the Louisiana State university, 1869-72; professor of modern languages at the University of Mississippi, 1881-89, and in 1893 was elected professor of English and history at the Agricultural and Mechanical college of Texas. He is the author of: Beginnings of Civilization (1881); Out of a Besieged City (1887); The Story of Beryl (1888); French Literature (1889); The Story of Language (1898), and fugitive verses in current periodicals.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of McPhersonville, (Hampton County) South Carolina

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