Dr. David W. Hutchison and Jane A. Noble
Husband Dr. David W. Hutchison 1
Born: 10 Aug 1818 - East Nottingham Twp, Chester Co, PA 2 Christened: Died: 29 May 1874 1 Buried: - Oxford Cemetery, Oxford, Chester Co, PA
Father: David W. Hutchison ( -1835) 3 Mother: Fannie Watt ( -1862) 3
Marriage: 1844 4
Wife Jane A. Noble 1
Born: Christened: Died: 15 Apr 1894 1 Buried:
Father: William Noble ( - ) 4 5 Mother: Christiana [Unk] ( - ) 4 5
Children
1 M William Noble Hutchison, M.D. 6
Born: Christened: Died: 4 Oct 1877 6 Cause of Death: Drowning Buried:
2 M David C. Hutchison 6
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
3 F Susan Noble Hutchison 6
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
4 M Francis P. Hutchison, M.D. 6
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
5 M J. Hervey A. Hutchison 6
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
6 F Fannie W. Hutchison 6
Born: Christened: Died: May 1859 6 Buried:
7 F Maggie Dickey Hutchison 6
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
8 M H. Agnew Hutchison 6
Born: Christened: Died: 29 Apr 1884 - Philadelphia, PA 6 Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Dr. David W. Hutchison
the Oxford Press, Oxford, PA
June 3, 1874.
DR. DAVID W. HUTCHISON.
This community was greatly shocked on Friday last at the announcement of the death of Dr. D. W. Hutchison which occurred suddenly at half-past two o'clock on that morning, at his residence in this Borough.
Dr. Hutchison was a physician of great skill and his large and extensive practice extended over a wide district. He had skillfully performed many difficult surgical operations and raised many deeply diseased persons from the worst sick beds to life and strength. He seemed to possess great intuitive knowledge of every case he undertook and could almost always inspire confidence in the patient of ultimate recovery. He was kind and affectionate in his manner and won the deep regard of all. His kindness of heart would never allow him to refuse a call from any, no matter how small his reward might be and no matter how unfit his own health was for the duty. His place as a physician will be hard to fill.
He took an active part in politics and was one of the ablest stump speakers and debaters in the State. In 1871 he was a candidate for Congress before the Republican county nominating convention, receiving a very liberal support from his many friends.
Dr. Hutchison was born in East Nottingham Township, August 10, 1818, and was therefore in the 56th year of his age. He studied medicine under Dr. Johnson, of Drumore Township, Lancaster County, and graduated at the Medical Department of the College of Pennsylvania in 1840. He removed to Oxford in the spring of 1841 where he commenced that brilliant professional career which had but few equals in its extent, and which ended only with his death. It might be truly said of him he died in the very walks of life and business.
Dr. Hutchison was long a member of the United Presbyterian Church and contributed largely to the support and advancement of the gospel. He leaves a wife and seven children to mourn their sudden bereavement. Peace to his ashes\emdash they rest in the beautiful Oxford cemetery, while his memory is enshrined in the hearts of his friends.
Dr. Hutchison was married in 1844 to Jane A. Noble, daughter of William Noble, of Nobleville, an active business man, and prominent in all enterprises, the town of Christiana being named after his wife. Dr. William Noble Hutchison, the oldest son, studied under his father, and was considered one of the most promising physicians of the section, and especially in surgical operations. Dr. D. W. Hutchison and Dr. Wm. N. both volunteered their services to the wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, and labored for weeks after the battle.
Dr. Wm. N. Hutchison was drowned in the fall of 1877, shortly after returning from Pittsburg, where he went as Surgeon of the Oxford Guards. Another son, Dr. Francis P. Hutchison, resides in Oxford, where he has an extensive practice. The other children are David C., Sue N., Maggie D., J. H. A. Hutchison, of the Oxford Press, and H. Agnew, who died suddenly in Philadelphia, April 29, 1884. Dr. D. W. Hutchison was identified with all that pertained to the welfare of the town having built over thirty houses in the town and at different times owned about fifteen or twenty farms in the neighborhood.
He was a member of the first Board of Directors of the National Bank of Oxford, Trustee in the Oxford United Presbyterian Church and strong supporter of the church and its doctrines, and few cared to attack him on the question of Psalmody. He was a man who delighted in debating questions of the day and was known as the "silver-tongued orator of Chester County."
IN MEMORIAM,
By Rev. Wm. R. Bingham, D.D.
Dr. Hutchison was not a man of ordinary talents, and he brought all his capabilities to bear upon the necessities of his patients, not merely as a doctor, but as a real friend. He impressed the sick with the idea that he made their difficulties a personal matter. There was not the cold, calculating treatment of the professional, but the ready, vigorous, determined effort of a friend\emdash not to save his reputation, or gratify his love of fame, but to save one in whom he was interested, who ever held out his sick hand a second time to Dr. Hutchison, without feeling confidence in his judgment to discover the secret place of his disease and skill to apply the best remedies of relief? These gifts of nature to him gave him a great advantage over an ordinary man in approaching a sick bed. This mesmerism of his presence and manner has saved the lives of many in the community when drugs would have no effect without them. To this was added medical ability of no ordinary kind. He had what might be called medical instincts. His diagnosis and application of remedies were at times truly wonderful, even in the judgment of medical gentlemen of acknowledged ability. To these natural talents he brought an amount of thought and study known only to those with whom he was intimate. After long and exhaustive rides in attendance upon a large number of sick, he would often spend a good part of the night in study. And the result of such reading and study were carefully stored by a retentive memory.
When cases of difficulty occurred in his practice, his mind would not long be detained from the most intense study; other things might obtrude for a time, but his mind would break away instinctively and with renewed vigor would return to the point of danger. Whoever has accompanied him in his practice must have often been impressed with this fact. Even his great interest in anything of importance that transpired around him, his desire for public improvement, his readiness to discuss questions of general advantage, never prevented him from close attention to the interests of his patients. They seemed to be uppermost in his mind. Many a mile has he traveled out of his way to find something that would gratify or benefit some one bound down by disease.
As has been well written by others, Dr. Hutchison was kind to his poor patients. No question of interest, no call from the rich, no personal gratification, no darkness of the night, no inclemency of the weather, detained him from the bedside of a man whose life was endangered by disease and who had entrusted his case to his hands, though he knew that no pecuniary return could be made. Thousands of dollars would not pay the pecuniary obligations of the community to him, at the ordinary rate of charge, and he has made no charge.
The large concourse of people that attended his funeral showed how far the stroke of his death was felt. The people gathered at his grave as they do when a friend or benefactor dies\emdash not to gaze in idle curiosity, but in sad silence to pay their heartfelt tribute to his memory.
1 Hugh R. Fulton, Genealogy of the Fulton Family (Lancaster, PA: Privately published?, 1900), Pg 32.
2 Hugh R. Fulton, Genealogy of the Fulton Family (Lancaster, PA: Privately published?, 1900), Pg 90.
3 Hugh R. Fulton, Genealogy of the Fulton Family (Lancaster, PA: Privately published?, 1900), Pg 28.
4 Hugh R. Fulton, Genealogy of the Fulton Family (Lancaster, PA: Privately published?, 1900), Pg 91.
5 —, Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (J. H. Beers & Co., 1903), Pg 6.
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Hugh R. Fulton, Genealogy of the Fulton Family (Lancaster, PA: Privately published?, 1900), Pg 40.
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