Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Hutchinson, William F 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County 

WILLIAM F. HUTCHINSON, of Joliet, came to this city in the fall of 1886 as
deputy county clerk under H. H. Stossen, continuing in that capacity for two 
terms. In the fall of 1894, on the Republican ticket, he was elected to the  
office by a majority of twenty-two hundred and eighty-five. Four years later he
was re-elected by a majority of over three thousand, which was the largest 
vote ever polled for a county clerk in Will County. As clerk he has been 
systematic in his work, energetic, and attentive to every detail, and has won 
the confidence of the voters of the county. He is also serving as clerk of the 
board of supervisors, and, under the new law, is a member of the board of
review. During his residence in Monee he was for fourteen years treasurer of 
Monee Township, and, on the incorporation of the village of Monee, served for 
one term as clerk of the village board.

The Hutchinson family originated in England, but has been represented in  
America since Puritan times, and one of its most distinguished members was 
Governor Hutchinson, a colonial governor of Massachusetts. Rev. William 
Hutchinson, our subject's father, was a son of Ebenezer Hutchinson and was 
born in New Hampshire, where his active life was spent in the Congregational  
ministry. He died at Plainfield, that state, in 1842, when he was forty-eight 
years of age. His wife, who had died in the fall of 1835, bore the maiden name 
of Mary Ann Abbott and was born in New Hampshire of an old family of New 
England. They were the parents of three sons and one daughter, of whom the  
latter, Martha, died at sixteen years. Joseph, who resides in Waterbury, Vt., 
served in a Vermont cavalry during the Civil war, and was taken prisoner and  
confined in Libby prison until exchanged. Merrill, who was a protege of one of 
the early governors of Ohio, enlisted from that state in the Civil war and 
served as a lieutenant; he died in Burlington, Vt.

William F. was born at Dalton, Coos County, N. H., April 1, 1833. From an 
early age he was self-supporting, earning the money necessary for his  
education in the St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy, where he completed the regular 
course of study. He then taught for a year in Columbus, Ohio. In 1855 he came 
to Illinois, where he first taught in Greengarden, Will County, and then at 
Monee, being principal of the latter school for seven years. For two years he 
was connected with Fairbanks & Co., as commercial traveler, and then entered 
the store as a bookkeeper, where he remained until 1879. Afterward he was 
principal of the school until 1886, the time of his removal to Joliet. 
Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Mount 
Joliet Lodge, A. F. & A. M. During the Civil war he was chairman of the local 
division of the Union League. Reared in the Whig faith, he became a free 
soiler and, in 1856, affiliated with the Republican party upon its 
organization in Illinois. He is chairman of the board of deacons of the 
Central Presbyterian Church. While in Monee he was for fourteen years 
superintendent of the Union Sunday-school.

In Batavia, Ohio, Mr. Hutchinson married Miss Virginia Bryan, who was born in 
that city and died in Joliet in 1897. They were the parents of six children, 
namely: Bryan, who is a deputy county clerk; Gertrude, who died in this 
county; Merrill, of Chicago; Maud, who acts as one of the deputy county 
clerks; Edwin, who died at twenty years of age; and Bertram, who is a coal and 
feed merchant in Joliet. The second marriage of Mr. Hutchinson took place in
Kankakee on the last day of 1898 and united him with Miss Mary L. 
Easterbrooks, who was born in Rhode Island, of an old New England family,
and was for some years successfully engaged in educational work in this county.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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