Background
HUTCHISON, William Easton was born on July 14, 1860 in Oxford, Chester Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William G. and Ann Eliza (Campbell) Hutchison.
HUTCHISON, William Easton was born on July 14, 1860 in Oxford, Chester Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William G. and Ann Eliza (Campbell) Hutchison.
Bachelor of Arts, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, 1883, A.M., 1886, Doctor of Hebrew Literature (honorary), 1951. Doctor of Laws, College of Emporia, Kansas, 1927.
August 6, 1895 (died 1929). Foster-children—Review Ralph C., Doctor James E., Marian Hutchison Clements. Admitted to Pennsylvania bar, 1886, Kansas bar, 1887, Kansas Supreme Court.
1889. United States Supreme Court, 1917. Practiced in Ulysses, Kansas, 1887-1892. County attorney, Grant County, Kansas, 1888-1891.
Judge District Court 32d Judicial District of Kansas, 1892-1907. Settled in Garden City, Kansas, 1896. Resumed practice there, 1907.
Member and secretary State Board of Bar Examiners of Kansas, 1911-1927. Pardon attorney of Kansas, 1925. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas, 1927-1939.
Again resumed practice of law. Now member Hutchison, Vance, Hope & Fleming. Ex-president Garden City Building & Loan Association Trustee College of Emporia.
Director Kansas.
Member American Bar Association, Kansas Bar Association (president 1911), Southwestern Kansas Bar Association (president 1945), Garden City Chamber Commerce (ex-president). Odd Fellow, Knights of Pythias, Elk. Member A.O.U.W.; Club: Rotary of Garden City (ex-president).
Spouse Reba Anderson, August 6, 1895, Beulah, N.