HUTCHINSON, Hugh, IRE., then Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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HUGH HUTCHINSON, DUSON.--Hugh Hutchinson, a planter, living ten miles west of
Lafayette, was born in Ireland, 1839.  He is the son of Hugh and Jane (Adair)
Hutchinson, natives of Ireland, where they lived and died.  Hugh Hutchinson,
Sr., in his younger days was a weaver by occupation, he afterward became
captain of the police force of the city of Londonderry.   He was the father of
nine children, seven sons and two daughters.

The subject of this sketch with three of his brothers, emigrated to America in
May, 1857.  He stopped at Philadelphia, and was for a number of years engaged
in Mone & Tascond's Iron works.  In 1865 he went to Chicago, and was on the
police force for a year.  The following year he moved to New Orleans, and was
there engaged in various employments [sic]. For a time he was on the police
force.  He next located in McComb City, Miss., where he worked in the railroad
shops.  In May, 1875, he removed to Lafayette parish, Louisiana, and engaged
in farming on the place he now owns.  The plantation is a good one and
consists of three hundred and twenty-seven acres of land.  Mr. Hutchinson was
married, in 1881, to Miss Albertine Shear.  They are the parents of five
children, viz.:  James,  Thomas,  Elizabeth,  Jonas,  William.  Mr. Hutchinson
is one of the most successful planters in this section.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
232-233.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.