- Jesse Erwin HUTCHINS was the
son of Alonzo B. and Rosetta (WEED) HUTCHINS. He
- was born at Palo, Iowa, October 12,
1877, and died May 17, 1924, at St. Mary's Hospital at Centralia,
Illinois being 46 years old, 7 months, and 5 days old.
- He was the youngest of a family of
six sons and two daughters. On March 26, 1902, he was
- married to Miss Edith E. CAMPBELL.
When about sixteen years of age he was baptized and became a
member of the North Loup Seventh Day Baptist Church. He was graduated
from Milton College and the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1905,
and from the Theological Seminary of Alfred University in 1909
with the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. He also 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 ministry in the autumn of 1907.
On graduation from the seminary in May, 1909, be became pastor
of the Seventh Day Baptist Church at Berlin, N.Y., where he remained
four years, and then went to the Marlboro Church near Bridgeton,
N.J. In the spring of 1917, he became pastor of the church at
Brookfield, N.Y., and in 1921 went to Farina, Ill., where he
served as pastor till the time of his death.
- During his college and seminary days,
he spent several summer vacations as a member of a
- student quartette engaged in evangelistic
campaigns: and during his pastorates has been active in this
same kind of work, especially as leader of evangelistic music.
He also found time to be one of the editors of the Helping Hand,
a quarterly magazine conducted in the interest of the Bible school
work. He was for a time the editor of the Seventh Day Baptist
Pulpit.
- Farewell services were held in his
church at Farina, Ill., May 19, 1924, conducted by Rev. Edwin
- Shaw of Milton, Wis. Interment was
made in the cemetery at Milton, Wis. [pp. 60-61]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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