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Dr. D. A. Hutchinson is one of the leading practitioners of the “healing art” in Howard County, but is especially well known in Nashville and vicinity, where he has resided since 1876. He was born in Alabama in 1848, the fourth of a family of eleven children born to J. R. and Henrietta W. (Furlow) Hutchinson, who were native Georgians, and farmers by occupation, emigrating to Alabama in 1846. Three years later they returned to their native State, where Mr. Hutchinson was exclusively engaged in planting until after the war, but in 1866 removed to Texas, and in 1870 came to Arkansas and settled in Columbia County, purchasing a tract of land, and for many years was engaged in farming on an extensive scale. In 1882 he moved to Lockesburg, where he owns a fine farm on the Cossatot River, and here is now making his home. He has held several county offices, both in Columbia and Sevier Counties, and has served as county treasurer for several terms. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is one of the well-known citizens of Sevier County. The subject of this sketch spent his early life on his father's plantation in Georgia, and he was given the advantages of a high-school education, attending the same at Calhoun after his parents' removal to Columbia County, Ark. At the end of one year he began his medical studies in the office of Dr. Walker, and becoming sufficiently well posted at the end of one year he went to New Orleans and entered the University of Louisiana, graduating from the medical department of this institution in 1872. He then returned to Arkansas and settled at Three Creeks, Union County, and there remained until 1874, removing in the fall of that year to Hope, Hempstead County, where his home was for the two following years. He then came to Nashville, on account of his wife’s health, but this move proved of no benefit, and in March, 1882, she passed to her long home, leaving a family of four small children: Edwin, Minnie, David and Jesse. She and the Doctor were married in December, 1872, her maiden name being Mary Wallace, a native of Georgia, and a daughter of Rev. Isaiah Wallace, pioneer preacher. In June, 1884, Dr. Hutchinson married his present wife, Mrs. Jennie Crofton, nee McLane, of Hope, Ark., and to them one child has been born —Richard. In 1881 the Doctor erected him a fine residence in the town, but it caught fire and was burned to the ground in 1886, and in 1889 he erected his present home, which is substantial and comfortable. He is the owner of a good farm of 160 acres three miles north of Hope, eighty acres of which he has in a good state of cultivation. This land is very fertile, and the uncleared portion is covered with excellent timber. In 1880 the Doctor took a post-graduate course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Baltimore, Md., and has since devoted his entire time to the practice of his profession. In 1887 he purchased land in Florida, with the intention of there making his home, but he soon found out that Arkansas presented more attractions and advantages than that State, so sold out his property there and returned to Nashville. He is now one of the foremost physicians of this section, and possesses a character which all respect and admire.