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Author: MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA
ARTHUR HUTCHESON, deceased, for years the president of the Hutcheson 
Manufacturing company, Banning, Carroll Co., Ga., was the son of James and 
Sophia (Montgomery) Hutcheson, and was a full-blooded Irishman, having been 
born in Ireland in 1818. His father died in 1827 and his mother in 1856. In 
1836, when eighteen years of age, he left Ireland for America, on whose shores 
he landed after a journey of six weeks, and came to Campbell county, Ga., and 
stopped with an uncle living there. This uncle, James Hutcheson, left Ireland 
for this country in 1818, and his first stop in Georgia was in Milledgeville. 
>From there he went to McDonough, Henry Co., and thence, in 1827, he removed to 
Newnan, Coweta Co. From Newnan he went, in 1832, and settled in the woods and 
cleared a farm, and here on this farm Arthur Hutcheson, without education or 
money, started in life. But he had good common sense, indulged in no bad 
habits, was frugal, and invested his earnings with rare good judgment. What he 
amassed was not made by sharp, tricky trading nor semi-gambling speculation. 
No "blood money" stained his purse. He did not accumulate rapidly, but he did 
it safely and surely, nor was he a millionaire, nor could he ever be, but he 
left a comfortable fortune, though he provided generously for himself and those 
dependent upon or serving him. During the war he was in the commissary 
department under Maj. Shackelford, whose headquarters were in Atlanta. He had a 
cousin in the army who saved the Confederate general, Bates, from being 
captured on one occasion when posting his pickets. After the war he engaged in 
merchandising at County Line, Carroll county, and in 1878 he bought an interest 
in what was then known as Amos' factory, to which he subsequently devoted 
almost his entire attention. At that time there was one mill, and that supplied 
with old-style, run-down machinery. The old fogy shareholders were gradually 
bought out, and under Mr. Hutcheson's able management improved modern machinery 
displaced the old. He next proceeded to organize a joint stock company with a 
capitol of $93,000, of which he was elected president and general manager. 
Additions and improvements were continued and now they have a 5,000-spindle 
(and preparation) cotton factory - a...paper mill, two pulp mills, and a grist 
and sawmill, all fully equipped with the best made, modern improved machinery, 
all within a mile along the creek, propelled by water retained by one dam. This 
company operates one of the three mills in the United States that make striped 
paper. The company owns 1,300 acres of good land, employs 210 hands, and when 
all their machinery is running full time, 240. Workers are furnished house room 
and a garden spot free; and the, company has built a school house for the 
children and a church for them to worship in.. Mr. Hutcheson looked after the 
physical comfort of his employees and gave attention to their moral training 
and conduct. He was kind and considerate, and treated them humanely, respecting 
them himself and stimulating them to cultivate self-respect for themselves. It 
is superfluous to add that Mr. Hutcheson was esteemed very highly by all who 
knew him in financial circles as well as in the humbler walks of life.  His 
true worth as a man could not be better appreciated than by his employees and 
their families, in whose welfare he took so much interest, and to them his 
death fell with the heaviest hand.  He was a master Mason and an exemplary 
member of the Methodist church.  He died on the morning of April 5, 1895.



Additional Comments:
“MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA”, Historical and Biographical Sketches
by S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., Published in 1896.  Transcribed by Elizabeth Robertson 
July 2004.


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