Henry Hutchins (1819–1889)Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History, William Hutchinson Rowe (1937) was an American merchant shipwright during a prolific period at Yarmouth Harbor in Maine.Images of America: Yarmouth, Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.16 His shipyard was one of the four major ones during the town's peak years, between 1850 and 1875.
Career
In 1851,"Yarmouth Historic Context Statement – Town of Yarmouth"Shipbuilding in Yarmouth" – Yarmouth Historical Society Hutchins went into partnership with Edward J. Stubbs, forming Hutchins & Stubbs.Shipbuilding Days in Casco Bay, 1727–1890, William Hutchinson Rowe (1966), p. 95 They launched over 21 vessels at Yarmouth's harbor between 1866 and 1884,Merchant Sail, Volume 5, William Armstrong Fairburn (1945), p. 3160 including the three-mast barkentine Harriet S. Jackson.Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding, Nathan Lipfert (2021)
Personal life Hutchins was married to Harriet, with whom he lived at number 85 Pleasant Street (built in 1848) in Yarmouth.Architectural Survey Yarmouth, ME (Phase One, September, 2018 - Yarmouth's town website) She died on Christmas Eve, 1869, aged 43. He remarried, to Tryphena (1830–1904).
A son, Henry Jr., died in 1869, aged 13.
Death Hutchins died in 1889, aged 69 or 70. His wife, Tryphena, survived him by fifteen years. He is interred, with both of his wives, in Yarmouth's Riverside Cemetery. They share a burial plot with the families of Captain Edwin W. Hill and Hermon Seabury.
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