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History of Manistee, MASON and Oceana counties, Michigan
H. R. Page & Co., Chicago - 1882

-71- [Free Soil Township History]

      One of the earliest settlers in this township was Mr. S. E.
   HUTCHINSON.  He was born in the state of New Hampshire in 1796.  At
   an early age he learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed
   through life.  From New Hampshire he went to Vermont, where, in 1818,
   he was married.  From Vermont he went to Rochester, N.Y., where his
   wife died, June 3, 1848.  In 1855, with his two young daughters,
   then at home, he came West and settled in the township of Free Soil,
   and was a resident of this county until his death, which occurred
   June 8, 1876, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. GEORGE TRIPP in
   Ludington.  He was a man of exemplary habits, and he was greatly
   esteemed by all who knew him.
   
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