Los Angeles County
Biographies
AURELIUS WINFIELD HUTTON
HUTTON, AURELIUS WINFIELD,
Attorney, member of the firm of Hutton & Williams, Los Angeles, Cal., was
born July 23, 1847, at Hopewell P. O., Greene County, Ala., son of
Dr. Aquila D. Hutton and Elizabeth H. (Tutt)
Hutton. His grandfather was Gen. Joseph Hutton and his grandmother Nancy
Calhoun, cousin of John C. Calhoun. He was married in Los Angeles
February 24, 1874, to Kate Irene Travis, and they had ten children, of
whom Mignonette, William B., Helen, Elizabeth, Travis C. and Eugenia
are living.
Judge Hutton attended the “old field schools” in Alabama
until 1863, when he joined the Cadet Corps of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa, serving
as a cadet to the end of the Civil War and rendering some service in the
Confederate army.
From 1866 to 1867 he read law under Bliss & Snedecor at Gainesville, Mr. Bliss having been a class
mate of Franklin Pierce, afterward President. In the fall of 1867 Judge Hutton
entered the University of Virginia Law Dept., and was graduated in a year. He
went to Los Angeles in April, 1869.
Judge Hutton wrote the first special charter of Los
Angeles in 1874. He was the first judge to decide against the
S. P. Ry. in its claims to lands granted to the A. & P. R.
Company. He was special counsel for the United States in the “Itata cases” for violation of the U. S. neutrality
laws during Chilean revolution. In 1872 he was elected City Atty., and
re-elected in 1874. In 1887 was appointed Superior Judge L. A. County; in 1889
U. S. Dist. Atty. pro tem for the So. Dist., Cal.
He was an original stockholder of the San Gabriel Orange Grove Assn., which
founded Pasadena. He served twice as Maj. Gen., Pacific Div.,
U. C. V., is a member L. A. Pioneer Society, L. A. Bar Assn.,
Sam Davis Camp, U. C. V., L. A. Chamber of Commerce and Golden
Rule Lodge, I. O. O. F., Los Angeles.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
31 August 2010.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 499, International
News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2010 Marie Hassard .
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