Harry Burns Hutchins

1847–1930 (age 83)

Educator

Biography

Harry Burns Hutchins served as president of the University of Michigan, steering the institution through a period of expansion and promoting professional education for doctors, lawyers, and engineers.

He valued integrity, cultivated scholarship, and remained a humble leader whose memory is kept alive at Forest Hill Cemetery.

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