- Rev. Jesse Erwin HUTCHINS, pastor of the Seventh Day
Baptist Church, was the son of
- Alonzo B. and Rosetta WEED HUTCHINS. He was
born at Palo, Ia., October 12, 1877 and died May 17, 1924 in
St Mary's Hospital at Centralia, Ill., from the effects of acute
gangrenous appendicitis, being forty six years, seven months
and five days old.
- He was the youngest of a family of six sons and two daughters,
Abbie, now Mrs. William
- WETZEL, of North Loup, Nebr., Wilton and Willis, twins,
both of whom have passed away, Wilton when twenty six years old
and Willis when he was forty two, Eugene A. of Olathe Colo.,
Guilford L. of North Loup, Nebr., Alice, now Mrs. John DAVIS,
of Harrison, Nebr., and Wesley T. of North Loup Nebr. Guilford
and Wesley were here.
- On March 26, 1902, he was married at Milton, Wis., to Miss
Edith E. CAMPBELL, daughter
- of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus A. CAMPBELL, of New Auburn,
Minn. Their oldest child Edith, died in infancy and was buried
at Milton, Wis.; the other children are Marcus A., Margaret,
Ruth and Eleanor.
- When he was about sixteen years he was baptized and became
a member of the North Loup
- Seventh Day Baptist Church. He was graduated at Milton College
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1905, and from the Alfred
Theological Seminary with the degree of Bachelor of Divinity
in 1909, and he had the degree of Master of Arts from Milton
College.
- While in the Seminary he was student pastor of the Hartsville
Seventh Day Baptist Church which
- ordained him to the Gospel Minitry in the autumn of 1907.
On graduation from the Seminary in May 1909, he went at once
to become pastor of the Berlin, New York, Seventh Day Baptist
Church, where he remained for four years and then accepted a
call from the Marlboro Church near Bridgeton, N.J. In 1917 he
resigned and went to Brookfield, N.Y. and in 1921 he came here
to Farina.
- During his college an Seminary years he spent several summer
vacations as a member of the
- student quartet engages in evangelistic campaigns and during
his pastorates has been active in the same kind of work, especially
in the leadership of the music.
- He has also found time to be one of the editors of the Helping
Hand, a quarterly magazine
- published in the interest of Bible School work, and for a
time he was editor of the Seventh Day Baptist Pulpit. For six
months between his pastorates at Marlboro and Brookfield, he
was employed by the Baptist Missionary Society as a field evangelist.
- He belonged to the Ancient Order of Free and Accepted Masons,
and at the time of his death
- was a member of the lodge at Bridgewater, N.Y. He was eligible
both on his mother's side and his father's side of the family
to the order of Sons of the American Revolution.
- Funeral service was held Monday, May 19th at 2:30, at the
Seventh Day Baptist church, con-
- ducted by Rev. Edwin B. Shaw.
- Besides his brothers there were present a niece, Mrs. Verne
ROBBINS of North Loup, Nebr.,
- and a brother and sister of Mrs. HUTCHINS, Mr. Turiel
CAMPBELL of Welton, Ia., and Miss Margaret CAMPBELL
of Milwaukee, Wis. The burial was at Milton, Wis.
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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