HARALSON COUNTY, GA - BIOS  G.R. Hutchins

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Source: "MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA", Historical and Biographical Sketches,  1896.

G. R. HUTCHINS, lawyer, Tallapoosa, Haralson Co.,
Ga., son of Nathan L.and Matilda Hutchins, was born
in Randolph county, Ala., Jan. 22, 1867.His father
was born in Coweta countv,Ga.,in 183I. IN 1850 he
went to Alabama, and from there to Mississippi.
Subsequently he returned to Alabama, and being there
when the war began, enlisted in the Thirteenth
Alabama regiment, which was assigned to A. P. Hills'
corps. He remained in the service until the
surrender, receiving two wounds (one in the hip and
one in the hand), from which he is disabled. After
the war he married and returned to Troup county,
Ga., and became a contractor. Not long afterwards he
removed to Heard county Ga., where he remained until
1893, when he came to Haralson county ,. While in
the army he was the first soldier in his company who
was given a furlough on account of good service. Mr.
Hutchins' mother was a daughter of James B. Greer,
and was born in 1834. Mr. Hutchins received but
little schooling during his boyhood, only ten days
after he was thirteen years of age. Later, however,
he acquired a very excellent education, and for
several years was engaged in farming and saw-
milling. In 1885 he taught school in Haralson
county, and read law, and Jan. 22, 1886, was
admitted to the bar and located in Tallapoosa, where
he still lives. In 1888 he was elected mayor of
Tallapoosa, and in 1891 was a member of the city
council. In 1892 he was elected mayor again to fill
an unexpired term, and in 1893 was re-elected for a
full term. Mr. Hutchins had nothing-not even a good
education-to start life with, excepting pluck,
energy, a resolute purpose, and integrity of
character. Yet, at the age of nineteen he was
admitted to the bar, and has bounded to the front as
the most promising young lawyer in his circuit,
rapidly gaining a large and influential clientage,
and already, young as he is, has been called by his
fellow-citizens to honorable and responsible
official positions. It is safe to predict for him a
professional reputation surpassed by few, and
distinction in the political and other fields. Mlr.
Hutchins has been married twice. His first wife was
Miss Maggie, daughter of Calvin and Mary Fults, of
Cobb county, Ga., to whom he was married in February
1887, and who died without issue. In November, 1891,
he was married to Miss Marie, daughter of W. H. and
Leora Kimball, formerly of Michigan, by whom he has
had two children, Harold Charles and Marie Louise.
Mr. Hutchins is a prominent member of the Christian
church.