Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 30 May 2003

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FREDERICK HUTCHINSON (deceased) was born at Lexington, Ky.; he was the son of John and Catharine (Snyder) Hutchinson, he a native of Lexington Ky., and she of Fredericksburg, Va. Our subject was compelled by straitened circumstances to begin hard labor at a tender age and received very little, if any, education; he was married, in 1838, to Miss Mary Shawhen, daughter of John and Rebecca (Leggett) Shawhen, who was born in 1820. She emigrated with her parents to Ohio, from the Red Stone country, Pennsylvania, when only four months old. By her marriage to our subject ten children were born, of whom three are deceased and the following seven survive: Rebecca, born in 1840, wife of Moses Crossley; Frank, born 1843; John, born in 1850, now married; Annice, born in 1852, now the wife of J. B. Todhunter; Josephine, born in 1854, wife of Victor Worley; Laura, born in 1859, wife of Christopher Stibbs, and William, born in 1862, now married. Mr. Hutchinson started in life with nothing, but, by industrious habits and close attention to his business, he had accumulated at the time of his death, Dec. 19, 1881, a large property, consisting of farming lands in different localities, amounting in the aggregate to nearly 700 acres; he was a man of indomitable energy and possessed more than ordinary business ability; his life was spent entirely on the farm, but he was an extensive dealer in pork and real estate; the surviving members of his family are all well-to-do residents of Warren County.