C. Hutchinson Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Beetown, Biographical Sketches, Page 1020 

C. HUTCHINSON, lead ore smelter and farmer, Beetown; born in Swaledale, 
Yorkshire, Eng., March 30, 1835; received a common school education arid a 
partial academic course at Platteville; came to this country in 1848 with his 
parents, and settled at Dubuque, Iowa; removed to Shullsburg, Wis., in 1852, and 
to Beetown in 1868, where he built a smelting furnace; it is at present the main 
industry of the place; he also owns smelting works and furnace at Potosi ; he 
holds the office of Town Clerk, and has been Chairman for a number of years. 
Wrote the history of Beetown, which was published in the Herald, and deposited, 
together with Grant County records, in the centennial box of Grant Co.; is at 
present on the Wisconsin Fish Commission, and has recently added a fishery to 
his establishment. Republican in politics; enterprising and wide-awake to the 
interests of the county.