Carroll County GaArchives Obituaries.....Arthur Hutcheson April 5 1895
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Carroll Free Press - 12 April 1895 - page 3
"Death of Hon. A. Hutcheson"
   News was received here on last Friday morning that the Hon. Arthur Hutcheson 
of Banning had died at 6 o'clock that morning at his home in that place.  As 
was stated in the Free Press last week, he had been quite ill for several 
weeks, but no one thought that the end was so near.  His death was a shock to 
quite a number of people here who were not aware of his extreme illness.
   Mr. Hutcheson was at the time of his death seventy six years old, having 
come to this country from Ireland in 1836, when he was seventeen years of age.
   He landed upon the shores of America a penniless boy.  He came directly to 
the home of his brother [uncle], Mr. James Hutcheson, the father of Mr. Joseph 
Hutcheson, our county man, who had paid his fare from Ireland.  Mr. James 
Hutcheson was then living in the corner of Coweta county, near Campbell, and 
also near Hutchesons ferry which he owned.  In connection with his farming 
operations he conducted a country store.  Arthur, after working a year or two 
on the farm, was placed in the store, where he developed quite a talent for 
trading.  This was the beginning of his remarkable career as a business man, 
which placed him among the foremost merchants and business men of western 
Georgia.
   Mr. Hutcheson was no common man.  He was not only big bodied, but he was 
also big brained.  He was well-informed upon the current events of the world 
and kept abreast with the times.  He was a close observer of the remarkable age 
in which we live and his comments upon passing events and the drift towards an 
ominous and portentious future, were quite interesting.  He believed we were on 
the verge of an epoch in history.
   As a business man, his strong, common sense and knowledge of men, were 
remarkable.  Everything he touched prospered.  Although without experience in 
manufacturing enterprises, a few years ago, he purchased with other parties, 
the cotton mill in the eastern part of this county.  Such was the confidence of 
his associates in his business sagacity, that he was placed in charge, though 
as already stated, without experience.  The factory though in bad shape when it 
was purchased, we have no doubt is the best paying investment of its kind in 
the state today.  Its stock is said to be worth $175 on the share of $100.  A 
paper mill near by was afterwards purchased by the company and to this was 
added two pulp mills and this too has proved to be a success under his 
management.
   Mr. Hutcheson's estate is estimated to be worth, by those who were close to 
him, $150,000.  As he was never married, he leaves the bulk of his property to 
his cousin, Mr. Joseph Hutcheson of this county, and his nieces, Miss Sophie 
Latimer, who lived with him, and Miss Margaret Latimer, who lives in Tennessee.
   Mr. Hutcheson was a member of the M.E. church and a few years ago he bought 
the Whitesburg High School Building and gave it to the North Georgia 
Conference, who placed the Rev. G.W. Griner in charge of it.  He afterwards 
made considerable additions to it and it is now one of the best school 
buildings and schools in the county.  The conference gave it the name of 
Hutcheson Institute in honor of Mr. Hutcheson's munificence.
   Mr. Hutcheson's remains were interned at the Hutcheson grave yard, on the 
old Hutcheson homestead, just across the Chattahoochee river on Saturday 
evening 3 o'clock p.m.  There was a large number of people present to pay the 
last sad tribute to the deceased.  The funeral exercises were conducted by Rev. 
J.S. Bryan, assisted by Revs. Griner and Crawley.

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