Mecklenburg County NcArchives Obituaries.....Huchison, James M.  August 29, 1838
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Sept. 21, 1838   Charlotte Journal
   DEPARTED THIS LIFE, on the 29th of August last, at the residence of THOMAS 
L. HUTCHISON, in the neighborhood of Charlotte, JAMES M. HUTCHISON, ESQ., 
aged  42 YEARS.
   The deceased was a native of Mecklenburg, a son of one of that patriotic 
band who achieved our National Independence. It was his misfortune to be 
deprived of the guardian hand of his father at an early age, and left 
destitute of the means to complete his collegiate course of education. Thus 
thrown upon the world with no one to guide and protect him, and nothing to 
depend upon but his own exertions for support and success in life, he 
commenced a student of law under the distinguished and much lamented JOSEPH 
WILSON, ESQ., and completed his legal studies under ALFRED M. BURTON, ESQ., of 
Lincoln County. He obtained license to practice the profession of Law in 1816 
and settled in the town of Charlotte, his late residence, and after enjoying 
the confidence of the public for several years as Clerk of the Superior Court, 
he was promoted to  the highly responsible station of a member of the 
Legislature for a number  of years, during which his great attention to the 
interest of his constituents confirmed their confidence in his integrity and 
usefulness and secured to him a seat in the late convention to alter and amend 
the Constitution. As an eviidence of his faithful discharge of his duty in 
that grave body -- composed of the most distinguished talent of the State -- 
he was again returned as a member of the House of Commons. His constitution  
having been much impaired by his great industry and zeal to discharge the 
public trust reposed in him, he felt it prudent to retire, but the people 
being unwilling to lose prematurely the services of a long tried and faithful 
public agent, by strong solicitations prevailed upon him once more to suffer 
his name to be used as a Candidate for the Assembly. Although very feeble and 
worn down by chronic disease, and conscious that his life was endangered by 
his public exertions, he remitted nothing that would honorably promote the 
cause of his friends until a few days prior to the election, when he was 
confined to his death bed: he, however, lived to see his warm, genuine and 
inflexible friends, once more and the last, express their entire confidence in 
his integrity and firmness of mind, by again returning him as a member of the 
House of commons.
   Thus a life which had been ardently engaged in public service, was forced 
to yield in the midst its usefulness to a virulent disease, which baffled all 
medical skill for 12 long years, but kept partially subdued by his own most 
extraordianry prudence and self command in denying to himself the pleasures of 
the world.

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