Claron B. Hutchison was born in DeSoto, Iowa, in December 1888 to Elza Elsworth Hutchison, from Virginia, and Miriam E. Dillon Hutchison, from Iowa. In the 1900s he lived in Van Meter, Dallas County, Iowa, with his parents and five siblings. The first ISC graduate in Electrical Engineering, Hutchison earned his bachelor’s degree in 1913. In 1938, he was listed as an Electricity Instructor in St. Louis, Missouri, public schools. By 1957, Hutchison was a teacher at the Manual School there. His sister, Doris Aline Hutchison, married another Iowa State graduate, William T. Wells (ISC 1925).
Iowa State College Dissertation Title: Design of hydro-electric plant at Preston, Minnesota, 1913
Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://quicksearch.lib.iastate.edu/permalink/01IASU_INST/174tg9m/alma990019993590102756
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