Au­gust 5, 1838, Con­cord, New Hamp­shire.

1920, poss­i­bly near Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts.

A graduate of Will­iams Coll­ege (MA 1861) and the Gen­er­al The­o­lo­gi­cal Sem­in­ary, New York Ci­ty (DD 1865), Hutch­ins be­came an Epis­co­pal min­is­ter in 1865. He served as Rec­tor of Saint John’s, Low­ell, Mass­a­chu­setts (1867); as­sist­ant pas­tor at St. Paul’s Ca­thed­ral, Buf­fa­lo New York (1869-72); and Rec­tor of Grace Church, Med­ford, Mass­a­chu­setts (1872-90). He al­so served as as­sist­ant sec­re­ta­ry of the Gen­er­al Con­ven­tion (1871 & 1874), and Sec­re­ta­ry of the Con­ven­tion (1877), and ed­it­ed the week­ly pub­li­ca­tion The Par­ish Choir from 1874 to short­ly be­fore his death. His works in­clude:

• Sunday School Hymn­al (Buf­fa­lo, New York: 1871)
• Annotations of the Hymn­al (Hart­ford, Con­nec­ti­cut: 1872)
• The Can­ti­cles (Hart­ford, Con­nec­ti­cut: 1872
• Church Hymn­al (Med­ford: 1879)
• Sunday School Hymn­al and Ser­vice Book (Med­ford: 1871, 1881, 1892)
• The Church Hymn­al (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Parish Choir, 1892)
• A Hymn­al and Ser­vice-Book (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Par­ish Choir, cir­ca 1893)
• The Chant and Se­rvice Book (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Par­ish Choir, cir­ca 1894)
• Carols Old and Car­ols New (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Pari­sh Choir, 1916)
• The Church Psal­ter
• The Point­ed Pray­er Book
• The Echoes of Pine­brook (The Young Peo­ples Church of the Air)

Though Hutchins put out many books, we so far have not found any songs or tunes by him.