Background
Hutchinson, Elijah Cubberley was born on August 7, 1855 in Windsor, New Jersey, United States. Son of Spafford W. and Mary E. (Cubberley) Hutchinson.
General politician representative
Hutchinson, Elijah Cubberley was born on August 7, 1855 in Windsor, New Jersey, United States. Son of Spafford W. and Mary E. (Cubberley) Hutchinson.
He attended the public schools and Riders Business College in Trenton, New Jersey.
He became a merchant miller in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey and was interested in banking and in the manufacture of fertilizer. He served as township clerk for three years. He served as state road commissioner from 1905 to 1908.
Hutchinson was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving in Congress from March 4, 1915 to March 3, 1923, but was unsuccessful in his bid for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress.
He resided in Trenton, until his death there on June 25, 1932. Hutchinson was interred in Greenwood Cemetery in Hamilton Township.
Although the mill he owned is no longer in existence, the neighborhood of Hamilton Township where it stood is known as Hutchinson Mills, New Jersey. Several other stained glass windows bear dedications by "Mistress
East.C. Hutchinson" and one is in the name of Stanley Hutchinson, in memory of his mother.
Hutchinson was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1895 and 1896, and served in the New Jersey Senate from 1899 to 1904 and was president of that body in 1903.
Married second, Mistress.