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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ email: melgraves at home.com, Compiler: Mel Graves. Constant Graves, Location: db: :1480803, Url:http:/worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/. (March 2003).
- ↑ Bettye. Robert Hutchinson family information, Recipient: Kristina Kuhn, AuthorE-mail: BHold1 at aol.com. (2001).
- ↑ Doane Robinson. History of South Dakota, Volume: one. (1904)
916-917.
- ↑ D.J. Powell. The Powell Family a Record and Biography of the Descendants of Thomas Powell, Sr. (1906, Damascus, Ohio).
- ↑ D.J. Powell. The Powell Family a Record and Biography of the Descendants of Thomas Powell, Sr. (1906, Damascus, Ohio).
- ↑ Obituary. (further information available upon request)
of Aaron Culler.
- ↑ "Robert M. Hutchinson, of Delmont, Douglas county, one of the able
and popular members of the legislature of the state, is a native of the
state of Illinois, having been born in Henderson County, on the 8th of
September, 1858, a son of Benjamin and Anna B. (Moore) Hutchinson, to
whom were born six children, namely: John M., who resides in Charles Mix
County, South Dakota, James G., who is a resident of Delmont, this
state; Robert M., who is the immediate subject of this review; Sarah
E., who is the wife of Elmer F. Whitney, of Delmont; George W., who died
at the age of nineteen years; and Thomas H., of Delmont. The father of
the subject was born in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1821, and his death
occurred on the 26th of June, 1896. As a boy of twelve years he removed
with his parents to the military tract in Henderson County, Illinois,
where he was reared and educated, eventually becoming the owner of the
old homestead farm, where he resided for the long period of sixty-three
years, - to the hour of his death. It was his wish that some of the
heirs should purchase the homestead so that it might remain permanently
in the possession of the family and his second wife now resides on the
farm. The mother of the subject died in 1869. and his father later
married Mrs. Anna (Evans) Grant, and they became the parents of two
children, Benjamin Ralph, who has charge of the old home farm, and Anna
M., who is the wife of Charles Smith, of Benton County, Iowa.
Robert M. Hutchinson was reared on the homestead farm in Illinois,
while he received his educational training in the public schools. In
1880 he rented land and began farming on his own responsibility, and in
the following year his father came to South Dakota to look up locations
for his sons, finally entering three claims in the bottom lands near
Delmont, Douglas County, the same being the most arable and valuableland
in this section of the state. In the spring of 1881 our subject, in
company with his two brothers and their sister, came to South Dakota and
each of the brothers located on the claim selected for him by his
father. Robert M. devoted himself with characteristic energy and
judgment to the improvement and cultivation of his fine farm, which he
has developed into one of the most valuable in the county, and there he
continued to reside until the autumn of 1891, when he removed toDelmont,
where he became associated with Henry S. Wilson in the handling of grain
and live stock, as well as coal, flour and agricultural machinery. This
partnership continued about one year, and Mr. Hutchinson then entered
into a partnership association with James M. Doyle, in the buying and
shipping of stock, and they now control an extensive and profitable
business in this line, being numbered among the enterprising and
representative business men of this locality and having the highest
reputation for reliability and honorable methods in all transactions.
In politics Mr. Hutchinson is a stalwart advocate of the principles
and policies of the Democratic party, in whose cause he has been an
active and effective worker. In the autumn of 1898 he was elected to
serve his district as representative in the state legislature, in which
his course fully justified the choice of the voters of the district, and
in the autumn election of 1902 he again appeared as the candidate of his
party for the same office, in which he is serving at the present time
(1904). He has been signally prospered in his business affairs and is
now the owner of five quarter sections of as fine bottom land as the
state affords, seven hundred acres of the same being under cultivation
and the balance utilized for pasturage. He is a member of the village
council of Delmont..."
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