Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Hutchinson, Luther N. April 8, 1823 - 
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Author: 1883 Mecosta Co. Portrait & Bio Album

LUTHER N. HUTCHINSON, dental surgeon at Big Rapids (office on the N. W. 
corrner of North Michigan avenue and 

Maple street), was born in westmoreland, Oneida Co., N. Y., April 8, 1823.  
His parents were natives of 

Connecticut, and were married at Hartford, June 6, 1801.  Warren Hutchinson, 
his father, was born Nov. 17, 

1780; was a carpenter and joiner by trade, and during a considerable period of 
his life kept a hotel; he 

died Sept. 5, 1847.  The mother Mary (Goddard) Hutchinson was born Feb. 19, 
1781, and died in March, 1855.  

The family included four children - Warren S. (deceased), Ephraim F. (dec.) 
and Fannie J., widow of Isreal 

L. Adams, residing at Winona, Iowa.  Dr. Hutchinson is the youngest child.  He 
accompanied the family to 

Washtenaw County, this State, when 11 years old, and settled in Scio, where 
his father built a hotel.  Both 

parents passed the remainder of their lives here, and their children reached 
adult age.  Early in life Dr. 

Hutchinson developed a taste and genius for the career of an artist, and he 
devoted the first years of his 

manhood to portrait-painting; but was compelled to abandon this profession 
because of failing eyesight.  In 

1845 he went to Ypsilanti, where he worked at photography about two years.  In 
1847 he went to Dexter, and 

spent two and a half years in the office of Dr. Hollywood, reading for the 
practice of medicine.  He went 

thence to Ann Arbor, and applied himself to the study of denistry, and was 
under the instructions of Prof. 

Bennett one year.  After two years of practice at Ann Arbor, he went to 
Howell, this State, and pursued his 

profession two years, going thence to Sturgis, where he opened dental rooms, 
and operated until 1870, the 

date of his removal to Big Rapids.

Dr. Hutchinson was married at Scio, Jan. 2, 1843, to Ruth L. Richmond.  Their 
son Ernest M., is now living, 

and is a dentist at Cadillac, this State.  Aver M. died Feb. 22, 1865.  The 
mother died, and the Doctor 

contracted a second marriage, July 27, 1870, to Adda C. Foote, daughter of 
Jacob J. and Sarah H. (Secord) 

Foote, a native of Scio.  Glen L., their only child, died Jan. 11, 1879.  
Daisy, an adopted daughter, was 

taken to their hearts and home when five weeks old.  She was born May 9, 1881.

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