William Hutchinson, Caro, Tuscola County, Michigan

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"The Tuscola Advertizer," Feb. 1941

Tuscola Advertizer, February 1941.   Contributed by Maxine Shannon

Tuscola County Advertiser,  Feb 1941 -- Believe Caro Man is 100 Years Old.

Evidence brought to light the Rev. William Hutchinson was born in 1841. Family Bible containing 
Birth Record was blown away in Tornado of 35 years ago. Rev. Wm Hutchinson, Michigan's oldest 
retired Methodist minister will be 100 years of age Saturday according to his son, W.H. 
Hutchinson of Caro. In previous stories of the Rev Hutchinson by the Advertiser, his age was 
placed at two years younger, but an investigation by the son gives pretty good authority that 
the venerable minister will reach the century mark Saturday. Rev Hutchinson was born at Escott 
Ont, and was married at Alexander Bay NY, to Christiana Smith. Two Years after the marriage he 
had come to Ellington, but for a short time after the marriage the couple lived in Bay City 
where their oldest son W. H. Hutchinson was born. The first home in Ellington was built of logs 
which Rev Hutchinson cut from timber on the farm. All supplies were brought at Wahjamega from 
the late W. A. Heartt. Today the trip from the Hutchinson farm home, about six miles northeast 
of Caro, would require only a few minutes by automobile but in those early days it was a 
tedious trip by ox team over rudely built corduroy roads. At the age of 35 yrs Mr. Hutchinson 
received the call to preach. He was affiliated with the former Methodist Protestant, now merged 
with the Methodist Episcopal to form the Methodist church.


November 1998

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