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| Charles L. Hutchinson March 7, 1854 - October 7, 1924 |
October 15, 1924 – Chicago learns that Charles L.
Hutchinson, who died on October 7, has rewarded the Art Institute of Chicago,
which he had served as president, handsomely in his will. After providing $300,000 to his wife, Frances,
he gives the museum the paintings that hang in the Hutchinson home at 222 East
Walton Place. Other stipulations in the
will provide gifts to Hull House, the Cliff Dwellers’ Club, Children’s Memorial
Hospital, Presbyterian Hospital, Michael Reese Hospital, and Lombard
College. Hutchinson was born into wealth
as his father brought the family to Chicago in 1856 and made a fortune as a
grain merchant, in meatpacking, and as one of the founders of the Corn Exchange
National Bank. Charles Hutchinson
followed his father into banking and grain speculation. The Newberry Library’s introduction to the collection
of Hutchinson’s papers states, “Because he was a man of wide interests with a
strong sense of civic duty, Hutchinson’s activities were not confined to
finance but ranged over many aspects of Chicago life. Though his greatest
enthusiasm was for art and the establishment and growth of the Art Institute,
Hutchinson was president, board member, trustee and/or supporter of perhaps as
many as seventy organizations and social institutions, orphanages, hospitals
and schools. Among his numerous involvements, he served as president of the
Chicago Board of Trade, director and chairman of the Fine Arts Committee of the
World’s Columbian Exposition, trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
president of the Chicago Orphan Asylum, president of St. Paul’s Universalist
Church, vice-president of the Egypt Exploration Fund, president of the American
Federation of the Arts, and treasurer of the Cliff Dwellers, of the Municipal
Art League, and of the Chicago Sanitary District. Also, at the founding of the
University of Chicago, in 1890 he was named a trustee of the new institution
where he served as treasurer until his death.”
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