Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Hutchinson, J. Pemberton
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Newtown Township


   J. PEMBERTON HUTCHINSON conveyancer and civil engineer, 
P.O. Newtown, was born in Newtown township, October 3, 1843, 
and is a son of David and Rachel B. (Child) Hutchinson.  His 
paternal grandfather was Thomas Hutchinson, a farmer of 
Northampton township, whose wife was Sarah Twining, and by 
whom he had the following children:  Elizabeth, Rebecca 
(Mrs. Chapman Buckman), Thomas (married Esther Smith) and 
David, who was a physician and a graduate of Jefferson 
Medical college, of Philadelphia.  He began the practice of 
medicine in Bristol and subsequently removed to Newtown, 
where he resided until his death, December 31, 1871.  He had 
two children who grew to maturity:  Edward S. and J. 
Pemberton, who was reared in Newtown and educated in the 
Polytechnic college at Philadelphia.  He was graduated in 
1865 and went to Colorado, and opened a chemical laboratory 
and was a mine examiner and also engaged in prospecting for 
railroads.  In 1867 he returned from the west and located in 
Newtown. He was at first assistant engineer and subsequently 
chief engineer of the Newtown railroad.  He has been engaged 
in his present business for the past nine years.