Los Angeles County
Biographies
GEORGE LEWIS HUTCHINSON
HUTCHINSON, GEORGE LEWIS, Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, California, was born in Linn County, Iowa, May 8, 1859, the son of Walter Hutchinson and Ann E. (Gates) Hutchinson. He is descended from an old line of New England settlers, one of his ancestors being Governor Hutchinson, the last Colonial Governor of Massachusetts. His father, a Union soldier, died during the Civil War in the Red River Expedition. Dr. Hutchinson married Lillie M. Davis at Colton, California, June 14, 1888, and to them were born two children, Ruth and Edith Hutchinson. He graduated from the State Normal School at Fredonia, N. Y., in 1879; taught school for a year, then took up medicine graduating from Long Island College Hospital in 1884; served as Interne for a year, then moved to Colton, California. Practiced for fourteen years, then moved to Los Angeles. For the next nine years he was railway surgeon and in 1908 he became manager and surgeon of the Crocker Street Hospital, but resigned in 1911, to resume railway practice.
He is a member of the leading medical and scientific associations; Knights Templar, Masons, Elks, Knights of Pythias and Mystic Shriners. Clubs: Jonathan, Union League, of Los Angeles.
Transcribed 7-23-09
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 320,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2009 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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