Robert, son of James Huthison and Margaret Greenlaw, emigrated to Georgia in 1823. He became a prosperous merchant and trans-Atlantic shipper, and in 1835 became President of the Savannah Steamboat Company. He owned homes in New York, Newport, R.I., and Savannah. He married Corinne Louisa Elliott, the daughter of United States Senator John Elliott, in Chatham, Georgia on 12 January 1832; they had at least two children, Corinne and Caroline.
He was aboard the steam packet Pulaski with his family, on a voyage from Savannah to Baltimore, when one of of the vessel's boilers exploded off the coast of North Carolina. He and his daughter Corinne survived the explosion and sinking, but Corinne later died while adrift on wreckage. Robert was one of a reported 59 survivors of about 180 on board.
Robert was remarried to Mary Caskie in Richmond on 31 October 1848; they had three children: Mary, Esther and Nannie. He married his third wife Ellen Caskie in Richmond on 23 April 1857; they had at least one child, Ellen Laura. He is buried next to his wife Ellen in the James Caskie plot.
Richmond Times-Dispatch, 24 October 1905:"Hutchison was a Scotchman, like the Caskies, and was three times married. His first wife was a Miss Elliott, sister of the first husband of President Roosevelt's grandmother, who later married a Bulloch. The connection between the Hutchinsons and the forbears of President Roosevelt was extended to the Caskies by the marriage of Hutchinson twice again - first to Miss Mary Edmonia Caskie, sister of Lizzie Caskie, and later to Miss Ellen Caskie, first cousin of Lizzie Caskie. Both of these weddings occurred in this city."
He was aboard the steam packet Pulaski with his family, on a voyage from Savannah to Baltimore, when one of of the vessel's boilers exploded off the coast of North Carolina. He and his daughter Corinne survived the explosion and sinking, but Corinne later died while adrift on wreckage. Robert was one of a reported 59 survivors of about 180 on board.
Robert was remarried to Mary Caskie in Richmond on 31 October 1848; they had three children: Mary, Esther and Nannie. He married his third wife Ellen Caskie in Richmond on 23 April 1857; they had at least one child, Ellen Laura. He is buried next to his wife Ellen in the James Caskie plot.
Richmond Times-Dispatch, 24 October 1905:"Hutchison was a Scotchman, like the Caskies, and was three times married. His first wife was a Miss Elliott, sister of the first husband of President Roosevelt's grandmother, who later married a Bulloch. The connection between the Hutchinsons and the forbears of President Roosevelt was extended to the Caskies by the marriage of Hutchinson twice again - first to Miss Mary Edmonia Caskie, sister of Lizzie Caskie, and later to Miss Ellen Caskie, first cousin of Lizzie Caskie. Both of these weddings occurred in this city."
Robert, son of James Huthison and Margaret Greenlaw, emigrated to Georgia in 1823. He became a prosperous merchant and trans-Atlantic shipper, and in 1835 became President of the Savannah Steamboat Company. He owned homes in New York, Newport, R.I., and Savannah. He married Corinne Louisa Elliott, the daughter of United States Senator John Elliott, in Chatham, Georgia on 12 January 1832; they had at least two children, Corinne and Caroline.
He was aboard the steam packet Pulaski with his family, on a voyage from Savannah to Baltimore, when one of of the vessel's boilers exploded off the coast of North Carolina. He and his daughter Corinne survived the explosion and sinking, but Corinne later died while adrift on wreckage. Robert was one of a reported 59 survivors of about 180 on board.
Robert was remarried to Mary Caskie in Richmond on 31 October 1848; they had three children: Mary, Esther and Nannie. He married his third wife Ellen Caskie in Richmond on 23 April 1857; they had at least one child, Ellen Laura. He is buried next to his wife Ellen in the James Caskie plot.
Richmond Times-Dispatch, 24 October 1905:"Hutchison was a Scotchman, like the Caskies, and was three times married. His first wife was a Miss Elliott, sister of the first husband of President Roosevelt's grandmother, who later married a Bulloch. The connection between the Hutchinsons and the forbears of President Roosevelt was extended to the Caskies by the marriage of Hutchinson twice again - first to Miss Mary Edmonia Caskie, sister of Lizzie Caskie, and later to Miss Ellen Caskie, first cousin of Lizzie Caskie. Both of these weddings occurred in this city."
He was aboard the steam packet Pulaski with his family, on a voyage from Savannah to Baltimore, when one of of the vessel's boilers exploded off the coast of North Carolina. He and his daughter Corinne survived the explosion and sinking, but Corinne later died while adrift on wreckage. Robert was one of a reported 59 survivors of about 180 on board.
Robert was remarried to Mary Caskie in Richmond on 31 October 1848; they had three children: Mary, Esther and Nannie. He married his third wife Ellen Caskie in Richmond on 23 April 1857; they had at least one child, Ellen Laura. He is buried next to his wife Ellen in the James Caskie plot.
Richmond Times-Dispatch, 24 October 1905:"Hutchison was a Scotchman, like the Caskies, and was three times married. His first wife was a Miss Elliott, sister of the first husband of President Roosevelt's grandmother, who later married a Bulloch. The connection between the Hutchinsons and the forbears of President Roosevelt was extended to the Caskies by the marriage of Hutchinson twice again - first to Miss Mary Edmonia Caskie, sister of Lizzie Caskie, and later to Miss Ellen Caskie, first cousin of Lizzie Caskie. Both of these weddings occurred in this city."
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