Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Hutchinson, Wallace Walter 1871 - living in 1917
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WALLACE WALTER HUTCHINSON.

    Wallace Walter Hutchinson, well-known retired miller, banker and landowner,
of Marysville, is a native son of that city and has lived there all his life,
one of the most active factors in the development of the interests of that
thriving county-seat town during the past quarter of a century, an able
representative, in the second generation, of one of the most prominent and
influential pioneer families in this part of the state. He was born at
Marysville on November 6, 1871, son of Capt. Perry and Lydia (Barber)
Hutchinson, the former of whom died at his home in Marysville on December 29,
1914, and the latter of whom is still living there, one of the most honored and
respected pioneers of Marshall county. In a biographical sketch relating to the
late Captain Hutchinson, presented elsewhere in this volume, there is set out at
considerable detail the history of this pioneer family in this county and to
that sketch the reader is referred for further details regarding the genealogy
of the subject of this sketch.

    W. W. Hutchinson was reared at Marysville, receiving his schooling in the
local schools, and early took an interest in his father's flour-mill at that
place, the first flour-mill erected in the state of Kansas; and upon completing
school was installed June n, 1889, as bookkeeper and office manager of the mill,
continuing thus connected with his father in the milling business until his
father's death in 1914, when he became owner of the mill, which he continued to
operate until August I, 1916, when he sold the mill; since which time he has
been giving his attention to his extensive land and banking interests. Mr.
Hutchinson has an interest in seven hundred acres of land and is a stockholder
in and a member of the board of directors of the First National Bank of
Marysville. During his many years of active connection with the old Excelsior
mills he gave his whole time to the direction of the affairs of that pioneer
industry and, as he recalls now, on many occasions worked practically day and
night and on Sundays, it being no unusual thing for him to be occupied at the
mill for twenty hours at a stretch for considerable periods of time during the
busy season.

    On April 20, 1893, W. W. Hutchinson was united in marriage to Bessie L.
Parrish, who was born in Jefferson county, New York, October 20, 1874, daughter
of George W. and Emma (Parker) Parrish, natives of that state, who are now
living in Texas. George W. Parrish was born on January 6, 1849, and became one
of the early students of electricity upon the development of applied electrical
energy for power and light. From New York state he moved to Illinois and came
thence to Kansas, locating in 1878 in the neighborhood of Frankfort, where he
was engaged in farming until 1888, when he moved to Marysville, where he resumed
his trade as an electrician and in that capacity built Marysville's first
electric-light plant. About 1900 he left Marysville and he and his wife are now
living in Texas, where he owns a farm. To them four children were born, of whom
Mrs. Hutchinson, the second in order of birth, is now the only survivor, her
three brothers, Arthur, Franklin and Foster, being deceased.

    To W. W. and Bessie L. (Parrish) Hutchinson five children have been born,
namely: Georgia V., born on March 22, 1894, who was graduated from the
Marysville high school with the class of 1913 and on September 14, 1916, married
Bryan P. Weeks, a linotype operator at Forest City, Iowa; Grace C, March 30,
1896, who was graduated from the Marysville high school with the class of 1914;
Perry P., December 4, 1898, also a graduate of the local high school, completing
the course there with the class of 1916 and now a student at Chauncey Hall, a
preparatory school at Boston, Massachusetts; Glenn W., April 4, 1906, and Carol,
August n, 1908. The Hutchinsons have one of the finest homes in the city of
Marysville and take an earnest interest in the general social activities of the
community. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson are members of the Episcopal church and Mr.
Hutchinson has been treasurer of the local congregation of the same for the past
fifteen years. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and takes a warm
interest in the affairs of the same.



Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)

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