History of Houston, (Harris County) Texas United States of America

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A Biography of John Russell Hutchinson

John Russell Hutchinson, educator, was born in Columbia county, Pa., Feb. 12, 1807. He prepared for college at an academy conducted by his uncle, the Rev. John Hutchinson, at Mifflin-town, Pa., and was graduated at Jefferson college in 1826. He studied theology at Princeton, 1826-28; was licensed by the presbytery of Philadelphia, April 22, 1829, and preached at Bethel and Rodney Mills, Miss., 1829-30. He was ordained in July, 1830, by the presbytery of Mississippi; was pastor at Baton Rouge, La., 1830-33; pastor and professor in the Louisiana college, Jackson, La., 1834-36, and pastor at Vicksburg, Miss., 1837-42. He was professor at Oakland college, Claiborne county, Miss., 1842-50, and acting president from the assassination of President Jeremiah Chamberlain, Sept. 5, 1850, to 1854. He was pastor and principal of a classical school at Covington, La., 1854-57; pastor at New Orleans, 1857-60, Houston, Texas, 1860-65, and a missionary in the presbytery of Brazes, Texas, 1867-75. He received the degree of D.D. He published Remiaiscences, Sketches and Addresses (1874). He died at Houston, Texas, Feb. 24, 1878.

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