Routt County CO Archives Biographies.....Hutchinson, Frisbie Dewey June 22, 1844 - ? ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Crook jlcrook@rof.net March 25, 2006, 7:19 pm Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado This widely and favorably known and leading ranchman and cattle-grower of Routt county, is a native of the state of New York, born at Canaan, Columbia county, on June 22, 1844, and the son of Benjamin B. and Clarissa (Dewey) Hutchinson, also native in that state, the mother being a first cousin to Admiral Dewey. The parents were farmers in New York, Michigan, Missouri and Colorado, becoming residents of this state in 1872. The father was a successful business man, always finding good opportunities for his advancement and using them wisely. During the Civil war he furnished beef for the United States troops at a profit. He was a Republican in politics and a Freemason and Odd Fellow fraternally, being district deputy grand master in the former order. The son received a good education, and at the age of eighteen took up the burden of life for himself as a private soldier in the Seventeenth Michigan Infantry, Company C, finding active service and facing death on seventeen of the renowned battle fields of the memorable contest of 1861-5. He was taken prisoner at Spottsylvania Courthouse in Virginia and held in captivity to the close of the war. Returning to Michigan after his release, he passed the winters of 1865 and 1866 at school, and afterward learned the trade of a stone mason. He has also done much good work as an auctioneer, and for seven years he was an agent for the German Life Insurance Company of Rockford, Illinois, and the Home and Phoenix of New York. In 1866 he moved to Hannibal, Missouri, and until 1890 he made his headquarters there. In addition to other work he carried on a farming enterprise in Ralls county, Missouri, and also manufactured brooms extensively. In 1881 he made his first trip to Colorado, and located at Montezuma with the hope of improving his failing health, and also his financial condition. Here he passed three months prospecting, then returned to Ralls county, Missouri. In 1885 he came again to this state and in 1886 rented a ranch ten miles north of Denver, where he lived a year and a half, learning how to farm by irrigation, managing the ranch and his Missouri interests as well. He was so much encouraged by the improvement of his health and the business outlook that in 1890 he sold all his interests in Missouri and determined to make Colorado his permanent home. He then pre-empted one-half of his present ranch, of three hundred and twenty acres, acquiring the rest later by homestead. Of the entire tract he has two hundred acres under cultivation in hay, grain and vegetables, but hay and cattle are his principal sources of revenue. The ranch is six miles southwest of Yampa, on the Trappers’ Lake trail, and was all in wild sage when he took hold of it, all the improvements being made by him. Not long after his arrival in this section an Indian scare was occasioned by the savages stampeding sheep between Beggs, Wyoming, and Fortification creek, which brought out five hundred armed men for the defense of the region and the punishment of the marauders, Mr. Hutchinson being one of the number. He is an ardent Democrat in politics, having cast his first vote (a white bean) in Andersonville prison for George B. McClellan. In the fraternal life of the state he takes a native interest as a Freemason, a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, an Odd Fellow, a member of the Rebekahs, and a Grand Army of the Republic man. In the order of Odd Fellows he holds the rank of past grand. On October 10, 1867, he united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Doggett, a native of Marysville, Kentucky. In every relation of life Mr. Hutchinson has met his duty manfully, and he has won thereby the guerdon of true fidelity in the lasting regard and good will of his fellow men. Additional Comments: From Progressive Men of Western Colorado. Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/routt/bios/hutchins440gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cofiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb