 Denison, Texas  Father R. J. Hutcheson St Patrick's Catholic Church Denison, Texas Collection of Grayson County Frontier Village  Photographer
G.W. Moore was living in Denison by 1893 and died there in 1911.
Father Hutcheson assumed his duties as Assistant Priest at St.
Patrick's in November or December 1905.
 The 1910
Denison, Grayson County, Texas ceneus was taken while Father Hutcheson
enumerates Father Hutcheson shows Father Hutcheson to be 30 years of
age. That data places his birth in 1879 or 1880. In late
January 1907 Rt. Rev. E.J. Dunn, bishop of Dallas, appointed Rev. F.P.
Maginn, late of Oak Cliff, pastor of St. Patrick's to succeed
Rev. T.K. Crowley who had died on Christmas Day 1906. Father
Maginn was appointed as successor to Father Crowly in January 26, 1907
and he assumed the duties of his pastorate at St. Patrick's on Sunday,
January 27, 1907 and before his first sermon read the letter of
appointment to the congregation. In the same letter, Rt. Rev. E.
Dunn the report of a new parish created in Denison was confirmeed and
that Father Hutcheson, assistant priest to the late Father Crowley was
to have charge of the new parish. Bishop Dunn of Dallas gave permission
for Father Hutcheson to begin immediately working in the new parish and
soliciting donations for the erection of a house of worship. (The Sunday Gazetteer, Sunday, February 3, 1907, pg. 1)
Father Hutcheson purchased property formerly occupied by the German Lutheran Church as well as the parsonage. He began to make improvements to the worship building, rebuilding the tower, adding a gallery and sacristies. It was proposed that the new church known as St. Joseph's be dedicated on St. Joseph's day, March 19, 1907. Father Hutcheson took up residence in the parsonage that adjoined the church, corner of Owings street and Armstrong Ave. (The Sunday Gazetteer, February 17, 1907, pg.4) The newly organized church of St. Joseph's was dedicated on Tuesday, March 19, 1907. (The Sunday Gazetteer, March 24, 1907, pg. 1)  Father
Hutcheson left his pastorate at St. Joseph's in Denison in the last
summer of 1910, staying a little over 3 years in Denison. His new
"charge" was at Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas, located in north central
Texas on the southwestern edge of the Dallas-Ft.Worth metroplex.
From Cleburne, Texas, Rev. Father Hutcheson moved to Boston
sometime before his death in 1945.
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