CLASS OF 1858

Henry Elijah Hutchinson, a member of this class during the first two years of the course, died May 8 of apoplexy at his home, 856 Park Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.

The son of Elijah and Laura Manning (Skinner) Hutchinson, he was born in Windsor, Vt., July 31, 1837, and prepared for college at the local high school. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. After leaving Dartmouth, he entered Amherst, and graduated there in 1858. For two years after graduation he taught and studied law at Montgomery, Ala., and then continued his law studies in New York, being admitted to the New York bar in 1862.

In 1862 he was appointed assistant to the notary of the Broadway Bank, which was the beginning of a long and successful financial career. In the same year he became assistant assessor of United States Internal Revenue, ] which position he held until 1872. He then became secretary of the Mechanics Savings Bank, Brooklyn, and in 1877 cashier of the Brooklyn Bank. In 1890 he was promoted to the presidency of the bank, and retired from active work in 1907.

From 1870 to 1882 Mr. Hutchinson was organist and director of music in St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal church, Brooklyn. He was a director of the Brooklyn Dispensary, a member of the advisory board of the Brooklyn Nursery ' and Infants' Hospital, and was formerly a director of the Hamilton Trust Company. He was a member of the New England Society, the Sons of Vermont, the Union League Club, the Church Club of Long Island, and the University Club.

February 10, 1863, he was married to Ella daughter of James Romeyn and Caroline Augusta (Cook) Stafford of Brooklyn, who died February 28, 1898. A second marriage was to Lillian Bennett, who survives him. A son and two daughters of the first marriage also survive.