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near his home in
Appleton from which he supplied to gas to customers living nearby. He developed land to the west of his factories on Widnes Marsh and Moor where other industrialists built their factories and where another dock, West Bank Dock was built. This area was connected to the
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agent. Nothing is known of John junior's early education until he was a student in Paris where he met Andrew George Kurtz, the son of Andrew Kurtz who owned an alkali factory in St Helens. Hutchinson was subsequently given a post at this factory.
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but Deacon left to found his own alkali factory nearby in 1853. When
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also joined
Hutchinson's and a friendship developed between the Brunners and Mond. The association between John Brunner and Ludwig Mond was later to develop into the chemical business of
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business and they traded as "Hutchinson and Earle". It is likely that Earle was the selling agent for this business. In addition to his alkali factories, Hutchinson had interests in
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and his estate was valued at under £50,000. During his life the population of Widnes had increased almost fivefold. His contemporaries called him "the father of Widnes".
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family. They lived throughout their marriage in
Appleton Lodge, Widnes, and had five children, three daughters and two sons, including John, Arthur, Mary and Gertrude.
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between
Gossage's factory, on the other side of the Sankey Canal, and Waterloo Road, where he also built the Tower Building to house his office. In 1861
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Hutchinson's, joining his older brother Henry, and he was soon appointed as the office manager. In 1862 the German chemist
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Elizabeth Kinsey who had been born in Ireland but who was a member of an old Cheshire and
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186:Early life
148:Lancashire
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412:Citations
292:quarrying
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