C. B. HUTCHINS, M.D. 

C. B. Hutchins, M.D., whose office is at No. 712 Post street, San Francisco, has been a resident of California since 1872, and has been engaged in the practice of medicine continuously since 1850. He was born in Waterford, Pennsylvania, in 1825. On his father’s side his ancestors settled in Massachusetts in 1638, coming from England with the early Puritan settlers. On his mother’s side they came in 1632. His great-grandfather, Colonel Seth Reed, commanded a regiment at Bunker Hill in the opening of the Revolutionary war. His paternal grandfather was a private soldier in the French war, preceding the Revolution, but was too old to fight in the latter war. His brother, Gordon Hutchins, commanded a regiment in the Revolutionary war. Dr. Hutchin’s father served a short time in repelling the British at Buffalo in the war of 1812. 

The subject of this sketch, C. B. Hutchins, received his early education in the schools of Waterford, and later spent four years in the academy of that town. He then engaged in teaching a private school, and as principal of an academy in Tennessee from 1845 to 1848. In 1847 he commenced the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of a physician of Somerville, Tennessee, a town near the academy he had charge of, with whom he studied for two years. He then went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he entered the medical department of the University of Ohio, graduating at that institution in the spring of 1850. The Doctor then entered into the practice of medicine for about two years in his old home, Waterford, Pennsylvania. He then went to Europe, where he studied for two terms in London and Paris, but mostly in the latter city. He then returned to the United States and practiced in Buffalo, New York, until 1862, when he entered the army as Surgeon of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment of the New York Volunteer Infantry. His regiment served most of the time in the Department of the Gulf, as a part of the Nineteenth Army Corps. He served on the Red River expedition as Surgeon-in-Chief on General Emory’s staff, and participated in the battle of Pleasant Hill, Sabine Cross-Roads and Cain River. Later he accompanied, in the same expedition, that corps to Virginia, where they did splendid service with General Sheridan, taking part in the battle of Winchester and in the campaign that shattered General Early’s army and gave possession of the valley to the Union army. 

At the close of the war Dr. Hutchins returned to Buffalo, and remained in the practice of medicine until 1872, when he came to California, where he has since been in practice in San Francisco. He had charge of St. Luke’s Hospital for three years, and has since had charge of the San Francisco Female Hospital. He is a member of the San Francisco Gynecological Society, and is also a member of George H. Thomas Post of the Grand Army, and of the Loyal Legion, Commandery of California. 

Transcribed by Donna L. Becker 

Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, pages 484-485, Lewis Publishing Co., 1892.

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