Frank X. Hutmacher is a dealer in groceries, meats and vegetables at Nos. 892 and 894 State street, where he has built up an extensive trade, New Haven numbering him among her enterprising merchants, his store being one of the largest in the outlying districts of the city. He was born in Hohenzollern, Germany, March 23, 1880, a son of Gustave Hutmacher, who was also a native of that country. The father was a shoemaker by trade and continued his residence in Germany until death called him in 1884, when he was forty-six years of age. He married Celestine Wetzel, also a native of Germany. She came to America with her son Frank and the others of the family in 1893, making her way direct to New Haven, where she resided until the time of her death, which occurred in 1901, when she was sixty-one years of age.

  Frank X. Hutmacher was the youngest in a family of nine children. The public schools of Germany afforded him his early educational opportunities and he also attended night school in New Haven. He was a lad of but thirteen years when he started out to earn his own living, being first employed by the Booth Meat Company, with whom he continued until 1909. He there learned the business in all of its departments and worked his way steadily upward. He started with a salary of but two dollars per week and during the last eight years of his connection with that firm was the manager of the New Haven house. At length he resigned his position to open his present store as a dealer in groceries, meats, fruits and vegetables. From the beginning the new enterprise has proven profitable and in point of volume of business is one of the largest in the outlying or suburban districts of New Haven. He employs from five to six clerks and he has a most attractive store, carrying a large and carefully selected line of goods. His store presents a neat and tasteful arrangement and his honorable business methods insure him a continuance of the liberal patronage that is now accorded him.

  On the 10th of December, 1900, Mr. Hutmacher was united in marriage to Miss Mabel G. Arnold, a native of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and they now have one daughter, Helen Elizabeth, who was born in New Haven, January 18, 1917.

  In politics Mr. Hutmacher is independent where there is no question to be considered save the capability of the candidate, but at national elections he votes with the republican party. He is well known as an exemplary member of Hiram Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and he also has membership with the Knights of Pythias. He belongs as well to the Automobile Club and he and his family attend the Episcopal church. His military record covers service as a member of Company B of the Connecticut National Guard, with which he was associated for three years as a private. Mr. Hutmacher has made a most creditable business record and in addition to engaging in the sale of groceries, meats, fruits and vegetables, he is now engaged in the manufacture of peanut butter, in which he has established a large and growing patronage among the more substantial merchants who handle the product.