Confederate Biography : J. C. HUTCHESON,  Harris County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p.  158

Joseph C. Hutcheson of Houston, was born in Mecklenburg county, Va., 
May 18th 1842.  He was graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 1861, 
and immediately enlisted in the Confederate army as a private in Co. C, 
Twenty-first Virginia Infantry, serving in the Valley under Gen. 
Stonewall Jackson.  His personal courage and devotion to the duty 
brought promotion, and when he surrendered under Gen. Robert E. Lee at
Appomattox he commanded Co. E, Fourteenth Virginia Infantry.  He now 
entered the University of Virginia and granduated from the law 
department in 1866.  Removing to Texas he began the practice of law in 
Grimes county, but in 1874 removed to the city of Houston where he has 
since resided.  He was a member of the Texas legislature in 1880; 
chairman of the fifty-third congress and two years later was re-elected.  
He declined a third term.  He is one of the best known lawyers in Texas 
and is still in the active practice in Houston.  He is an eloquent 
speaker. Mr. Hutcheson's first wife was Miss Mildred Carrington, who 
died in 1882.  Four years later he married Mrs. Betty Palmer Milby.  
Two of his sons are promising young lawyers.