Son of John Hutchings and Jane Street. Math prodigy, reverend, and sideshow barker.
Professor William Street Hutchings, "the lightning calculator," for fifty years famous in the show world of the United States, died yesterday, at his home, 8 Bulfinch Street, Boston, aged 80 years. He was born on Forsyth Street, Manhattan, January 7, 1832, his father being a grocer. He first practiced law, then became an actor and afterward a farmer. In 1860 he went into Barnum's Museum as a lightning calculator, remaining until the museum burned down the second time. He then went on the road and in 1872 gave a private entertainment to President Grant, in the White House. In 1883, he went with Austin & Stone's museum in Boston, and was with them at his death. He claimed to have given 30,000 lectures to 80,000,000 people.
~The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 26 August 1911. p 2.
Professor William Street Hutchings, "the lightning calculator," for fifty years famous in the show world of the United States, died yesterday, at his home, 8 Bulfinch Street, Boston, aged 80 years. He was born on Forsyth Street, Manhattan, January 7, 1832, his father being a grocer. He first practiced law, then became an actor and afterward a farmer. In 1860 he went into Barnum's Museum as a lightning calculator, remaining until the museum burned down the second time. He then went on the road and in 1872 gave a private entertainment to President Grant, in the White House. In 1883, he went with Austin & Stone's museum in Boston, and was with them at his death. He claimed to have given 30,000 lectures to 80,000,000 people.
~The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 26 August 1911. p 2.
Son of John Hutchings and Jane Street. Math prodigy, reverend, and sideshow barker.
Professor William Street Hutchings, "the lightning calculator," for fifty years famous in the show world of the United States, died yesterday, at his home, 8 Bulfinch Street, Boston, aged 80 years. He was born on Forsyth Street, Manhattan, January 7, 1832, his father being a grocer. He first practiced law, then became an actor and afterward a farmer. In 1860 he went into Barnum's Museum as a lightning calculator, remaining until the museum burned down the second time. He then went on the road and in 1872 gave a private entertainment to President Grant, in the White House. In 1883, he went with Austin & Stone's museum in Boston, and was with them at his death. He claimed to have given 30,000 lectures to 80,000,000 people.
~The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 26 August 1911. p 2.
Professor William Street Hutchings, "the lightning calculator," for fifty years famous in the show world of the United States, died yesterday, at his home, 8 Bulfinch Street, Boston, aged 80 years. He was born on Forsyth Street, Manhattan, January 7, 1832, his father being a grocer. He first practiced law, then became an actor and afterward a farmer. In 1860 he went into Barnum's Museum as a lightning calculator, remaining until the museum burned down the second time. He then went on the road and in 1872 gave a private entertainment to President Grant, in the White House. In 1883, he went with Austin & Stone's museum in Boston, and was with them at his death. He claimed to have given 30,000 lectures to 80,000,000 people.
~The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 26 August 1911. p 2.
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