Hutton

to become a fireman on the Northern Pacific
Railroad, he removed to Missoula, Mont. In less
than three years he had advanced to the posi-
tion of locomotive engineer and in 1887 was
transferred to Wallace, Idaho, where he had the
run from Wallace up the much-prospected can-
yon to Burke. The same year he married Mary
Arkwright of Cleveland, Ohio, who died in 1915.
At Wallace he was in the very center of the
lead-silver mining district of the Coeur d'Alenes,
and, like most men in the region, he became in-
terested in several mining properties. The Her-
cules mine on which he and his impecunious as-
sociates continued for years to do assessment
work was considered among the least promising,
but the ore which was finally struck in 1901
proved to be so rich that it was carried out in
sacks on the men's backs. The Hercules devel-
oped into one of the great mining properties of
that section, and eventually Hutton realized
nearly two million dollars from it.

Moving to Spokane, Wash., in 1906, he more
than doubled his initial fortune by wise invest-
ments in real estate in that city. Taunted at an
early age with being only an orphan, he had fre-
quently declared his intention of establishing a
home for this class of under-privileged children.
Accordingly, on Aug. 28,1917, he announced his
program for what was to be called The Hutton
Settlement It was originally planned to cost
$250,000, but Hutton eventually spent $850,000
on the institution's land, buildings, and equip-
ment. In addition he contributed $35,000 a year
to its maintenance as long as he lived, making
provisions in his will for the continuance of even
more generous support. The Settlement con-
sists of 320 acres, four cottage buildings, and a
large administration hall. It was Button's idea
to minimize as much as possible the usual insti-
tutional atmosphere. The eighty children which
the Settlement accommodates are cared for in
small groups, and boys and girls alike are not
only taught farming, housekeeping, and other
useful arts, but are given a sense of actual pro-
prietorship in the products of the farm, the
kitchen, and the shop. All the work is done by
the children under the direction of trained su-
pervisors and assistants. Hutton was preparing
an annual report to be presented to the board of
trustees when he suddenly died, Nov. 3, 1928.
Both he and his wife were interested in other
charities and enjoyed a reputation for excep-
tionally generous giving to many philanthropic
causes. They were also active in local Demo-
cratic politics, Mrs. Hutton serving as the first
national committee-woman from Washington,
la June 1928, Whitman College, Walla Walla,

Hyatt

conferred on Hutton the honorary degree of
master of arts, for his service to children.

[N. W. Durham, Hist, of the City of Spokane and
Spokane County, Washington (1912), vol. II; Sunset,
Dec. 1919; Spokesman-Review (Spokane), Nov. 4,
1928; N. Y. Times, Nov. 4, 1928; Mining and Metal-
lurgy, Jan. 1929.] H. C. D.

HYATT, ALPHEUS (Apr. 5, i838-Jan. 15,
1902), zoologist and palaeontologist, a descend-
ant of Charles Hyatt who was a resident of
Maryland in 1694, was the son of Alpheus and
Harriet R. (King) Hyatt. He was born in Wash-
ington, D. C., but was brought up at the family
homestead "Wansbeck" near Baltimore, where
his father was a leading merchant. As a boy he
was interested in natural history and under the
influence of an early teacher he was attracted to
the study of fossils. His father's abundant means
made it possible for him to receive every educa-
tional advantage. Studying at first under tutors
and then at the Maryland Military Academy at
Oxford, Md, he prepared for Yale College and
entered in 1856, but after a year his mother, who
desired him to become a Roman Catholic priest,
sent him to Rome, hoping that the influence of
friends there and proximity to the Papal Court
would serve her purpose. During this year, how-
ever, he determined to devote his life to science,
and returning to America in 1858, he entered the
Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard Univer-
sity to study engineering. Coming under the
influence of Louis Agassiz, he was soon drawn
into the study of natural history and began life-
long friendships with S. H. Scudder, A. S.
Packard, Jr., A. E. Verrill \_qq.v.~\ and others
who subsequently became leaders in zoological
work in America. This congenial group were
enthusiastic devotees of Agassiz, and Hyatt's
admiration went so far that he is said to have
learned his master's famous ''Essay on Classifi-
cation" by heart. In 1861, with two companions,
he made a trip to the island of Anticosti in the
Gulf of St. Lawrence to collect fossils and ma-
rine animals. The following year he graduated
from Harvard with the degree of B.S. Feeling
it his duty to serve the cause of the Union in the
Civil War, he raised a militia company in Cam-
bridge, enlisting as a private himself, but he was
soon made a lieutenant and later a captain in the
47th Massachusetts. Receiving an honorable
discharge at the close of the war, he returned to
Cambridge and again took up scientific work,
being placed in charge of the fossil cephalopods
in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, a re-
sponsibility which he continued to carry as long
as he lived.
In 1867, Hyatt, in company with several others
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