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                                 FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS 
JOSEPH R. HUTCHINSON            BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E.
                                         MOREHOUSE 
Early Curtiss Pilot - Instructor    


Joesph R. Hutchinson was born in Philadelpia, Pennsyl-vania March 1, 1887. He attend-ed local grade and high schools and developed an early interest in automobiles. This resulted in positions with Buick agencies and in 1909 he went to Orlando, Florida to work in a Buick agency there.
  Later that year the Orlando agency exhibited a Buick car at the local County Fair and Hutchinson was in charge of the display. Also at the Fair was a Curtiss pusher biplane and Hutchinson became very interested in the machine.
  As a result he decided to go to Hammondsport at once to see about learning to fly, but due to family objections was unable to do so.
  In 1911 he was transferred to the West Palm Beach, Florida Buick agency but was intensely interested in aviation and was studying it closely. Later that year he returned to Philadelphia where he enrolled in a correspond-ence course of Aeronautical Engineering with the LaSalle Institute of Chicago. Hutchinson completed this course in 1913, then enrolled for flying in-struction in the Curtiss school at North Island, San Diego, California. He started there on November 15th, along with M.W. Primm, William Brubaker and W.N. Sharpe, with T.C. Macaulay instructing on land planes. Hutchinson was
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