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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY
C'f Ansak-ni and Elizabeth Beverley (IJuck-
iier) Brock. Through both parents she is
descended from Robert Beverley, the immi-
grant, and her family line runs through
many names prominent in the colonial and
revolutionarv history of her native state,
including that of John Chew, of Jamestown
( 1622). In her girlhood her father removed
with his famiU to the University of Virginia
at I'liariottesville. and subsequently to Rich-
mond. Her education was conducted by her
father and she was for four years under the
preceptorship of a Harvard graduate. She
began her literary career in 1866, adopting
the pseudonym, Virginia Madison. In 1876
she published "Richmond During the War."
and in 1S68 appeared "The Southern Amar-
anth," a compilation of war poetry of the
south. These were followed by "The Do-
mestic Missionary Catechism" (1872) and
"Kenneth, My King." a novel of social life
in Virginia before the civil war (1872). She
was one of the two female contributors to
"Picturesque .America" (1874). An article
entitled "The I'ine Arts in Richmond,"
written for the "Home Journal of New York
City, was copied in "II Cosmopolita," a jour-
nal published in Rome, Italy, and printed in
Italian, English, French and Spanish. Mrs.
Putnam has traveled extensively, and in
1891, with her husband, visited Egypt, F'al-
e^tinc. Turkey, Greece, Syria, and several
islands and cities in the eastern Levant.
Her minor contributions to the press in-
clude editorials, descriptive and historical
articles, reviews, essays, letters, sketches of
travel, short stories, biographies, composi-
tions in verse and translations from the
French. In 1893 she published a richly
illustrated compilation entitled "American
Poets in their Favorite Poems," which in
its inception received the indorsement of
William Cullen Bryant. She was married at
Richniijnd, Virginia, January 11, 1882, to
Rex. Richard V. Putnam, of Boston.
Hutcheson, Joseph Chappell, Sr., was born in ?ilccklenburg county, X'irginia, May 18, 1842. His father, Charles Sterling Hutche- son, was born in Mecklenburg county, Vir- ginia, -April 14, 1S04, and died there March 22:, 18S1 ; married Mary Mitchell Hutcheson, November 12, 1823. He was a planter and a member of the Virginia legislature ; the son of Joseph and Rebecca (Neblett) Hut- cheson, daughter of Sterling Neblett and
his wife, Chappell, of Lunenburg
ctunty, Virginia; this Joseph Hutcheson was the son of Charles and Frances Collier ( Gaines) Hutcheson ; and this Charles Hut- cheson was the son of Peter Hutcheson of Caroline county, X'irginia, and his wife, who was Miss Collier. His mother was Mary Mitchell (Ilutcheson) Plutcheson, born in Mccklenbur-.^ county, \'irginia, August 12, 1S06, and (lied there. Alarch 9, 1895. She was a daughter of John Hutcheson, Jr., .born April 7, 1772; married September 10, iBoi), and his second wife, Mary Jones Sugget (nee Jones). John Hutcheson, Jr., was the son of John and Elizabeth (Childs) Hutcheson, of Caroline county, Virginia. Joseph Cha))|)cll Hutcheson, Sr., the sub- jfict of this sketch, was graduated at Ran- dol]ih-Macon College in i8f)i. In the civil war ho entered the Confederate service as a ])ri\ate in Com])aiiy C. Twenty-first \'ir- ginia Regiment. He studied law at the L'ni- \ ersity of Virginia, and was graduated there in 1866. He then went to Texas, and began the practice of law in Grimes county. In 1S74 he removed to Houston, and entered
