Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hutchinson, Frederick S. 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net July 15, 2011, 11:59 am Lyons Herald, 16 Oct 1913 Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 11. – Brigadier General Frederick S. Hutchinson, aged 74 years, died this afternoon at the Soldiers’ Home hospital. He suffered a stroke of paralysis a week ago yesterday. He was first stricken in July, but had almost recovered when he suffered the second stroke. General Hutchinson was inspector General of the Michigan Nat’l guard from 1883 to 1885 and was the second captain of Ionia’s first company G of the Michigan state troops. He saw service during the entire Civil war, enlisting at the start in company F., Fifteenth Michigan infantry at Ionia. As inspector general he took the Ionia company to Muir at the time of the threatened lynching of a man named Long, who had murdered his wife and who was a prisoner in the Muir hotel surrounded by a mob. General Hutchinson was born in Bedford, Ohio, Sept. 8, 1839. He attended school at various places in Ohio and in 1858 he came to Michigan and located at Lyons, where he was employed as clerk and bookkeeper until 1861, when on July 30 he enlisted as a private in Company F, Fifteenth Michigan Infantry. His rise was rapid and in seven months he had risen through the various ranks of corporal, sergeant, lieutenant and captain, to major. In 1862, Gen. Hutchinson as a private commanded company F at Shiloh, through the two days fighting, the officers being killed or wounded early in the engagement. Following Shiloh he was sent to General Grant and served as clerk under General Rawlins, until his commission as lieutenant arrived. In October of that year he was assigned to duty as assistant adjutant general and had two horses killed under him and received two wounds in the battle of Iuka. During the following months he was at Vicksburg, at Memphis and Chattanooga, and in the battle of Missionary Ridge he was again wounded and had a horse killed. He was with Sherman in the Atlanta campaign and participated in every battle in which the Fifteenth corps was engaged. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and went to Savannah where he participated in the capture of Ft. McAllister. In 1865 he was made colonel and later he was placed in command of the brigade. After the war he was sent to Louisville, Ky., and thence to Little Rock, Ark. He was for some time in command of a division, after he had been brevetted brigadier-general. All told General Hutchinson received five wounds and had five horses shot under him. He was many times reported for his conspicuous bravery in battle. One of the prominent figures in the great cyclorama at Atlanta is General Hutchinson leading the Fifteenth regiment. He returned to Lyons after the war and studied law. He then went to Ionia and in 1868 was admitted to the bar. He served as register of deeds, alderman and justice of the peace. In 1881 he was made captain of company G., M.N.G. following the resignation of Capt. J.H. Kidd. He was a member of the Vicksburg commission, and was one of the few brigadier generals to come under the jurisdiction of the pension bill recently passed by congress. He built a home adjoining that of General Kidd, of whom he was a warm personal friend, and whose death in March of this year had a very depressing effect on him. General Hutchinson was married in 1869 to Miss Ada Roof of Lyons who survives him. There are two sons, Herbert, of Ionia and Albert K., of Chicago. He was a democrat, a Mason and a member of the G.A.R. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/h/hutchins14806nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb