Hutchinson, Calvin Gibbs, ca.1836-ca. 1912.

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Calvin Gibbs Hutchinson, a resident of Roxbury, Mass. In 1851-1852 he attended Providence Conference Seminary at East Greenwich, R.I., and later was employed by various Boston firms as a bookkeeper. In Oct. 1862 he was appointed Acting Assistant Paymaster and reported for duty on board of the U.S.S. Commodore Morris. The Commodore Morris was assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and served in the rivers and creeks of Virginia on patrol, pickets, transporting troops, dragging for mines, towing disabled ships, as well as dispatching parties which foraged, took prisoners and destroyed Confederate property. In Sept. 1863, Hutchinson was detached from the Commodore Morris and assigned to the U.S.S. Pequot, under command of Stephen P. Quakenbush, that was on blockade duty along the Atlantic coast operating in the tidewaters of Virginia and North Carolina. He was detached from the ship on June 1, 1865. After the war he lived in Roxbury and Dorchester, Mass. working as an accountant, and was active in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

From the description of Papers of Calvin Gibbs Hutchinson, 1862-1912, (bulk 1862-1864). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122499598

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Death 1912

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