William Palmer Hutcheson

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William Palmer Hutcheson

Birth
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
Death
19 Jun 1966 (aged 78)
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
Burial
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Section C-3 Lot 057
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"Palmer" was named for his maternal pioneering Texas family: Judge & Mrs. Edward A. Palmer. While most of his childhood was spent in Houston, in order to escape the tropical diseases of the summer, he and the Hutcheson family traveled to their home on Signal Mountain, Tenn. where he hunted, chased foxes and bowled with his family & friends . Once graduated from the Hill School, Princeton and the U. of Texas Law School, he enlisted and served as an officer in the U.S. Army Artillery Corp. during WWI. His carrer encompased working in the field of law with his father's law firm, then Baker-Botts, and finally joined with his sons and relations in Hutcheson, Taliaferro & Hutcheson. Through inheritance, marriage and purchase he owned a beautiful home on North Blvd. in Houston, a Birdsall Briscoe designed home on Galveston Bay dubbed the "Bay House", 30 K acre T Circle Ranch in West Texas and the 700 acre Palmer Plantation in Sugarland, TX. He was married twice: the second marriage to Mrs. Gladys Lindley Ferguson took place May 23, 1952 after his first wife died. Palmer's outstanding sevice to the community included the presidency of the Houston Bar Assn, Regent of the Univ. of Houston, Chairman of the Community Chest, President of St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and Director of the Houston Chamber of Commerce. He was a person strongly out-spoken for liberty: and he once said that his philosophy was "preservation of rights and justice for all".
"Palmer" was named for his maternal pioneering Texas family: Judge & Mrs. Edward A. Palmer. While most of his childhood was spent in Houston, in order to escape the tropical diseases of the summer, he and the Hutcheson family traveled to their home on Signal Mountain, Tenn. where he hunted, chased foxes and bowled with his family & friends . Once graduated from the Hill School, Princeton and the U. of Texas Law School, he enlisted and served as an officer in the U.S. Army Artillery Corp. during WWI. His carrer encompased working in the field of law with his father's law firm, then Baker-Botts, and finally joined with his sons and relations in Hutcheson, Taliaferro & Hutcheson. Through inheritance, marriage and purchase he owned a beautiful home on North Blvd. in Houston, a Birdsall Briscoe designed home on Galveston Bay dubbed the "Bay House", 30 K acre T Circle Ranch in West Texas and the 700 acre Palmer Plantation in Sugarland, TX. He was married twice: the second marriage to Mrs. Gladys Lindley Ferguson took place May 23, 1952 after his first wife died. Palmer's outstanding sevice to the community included the presidency of the Houston Bar Assn, Regent of the Univ. of Houston, Chairman of the Community Chest, President of St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and Director of the Houston Chamber of Commerce. He was a person strongly out-spoken for liberty: and he once said that his philosophy was "preservation of rights and justice for all".

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