- JAMES F. HUTCHINSON, mayor of the city of Janesville, is
a native son of Wisconsin, born
- December 31, 1856, at Dunkirk, Dane county, Wis. His parents
were Stoakley and Elizabeth (INGMALLES) HUTCHINSON, who were
both born and reared in England, the father in the town of March,
Cambridgeshire, born November 13, 1826; the mother in Lincolnshire,
born October 8, 1830. They came to the United States in 1852
and lived in New York city for three years, then removed to Wisconsin
in 1855 and settled in Dunkirk, Dane county, where they farmed
for three years. Being attracted by the possibilities of Rock
county, they moved to Janesville in 1858 and there made their
permanent home, Mr. HUTCHINSON engaging in the business of contracting
painter, which he carried on successfully until the time of
his death, which occurred on December 23, 1906, at the age of
eighty years. Mrs. HUTCHINSON died January 11, 1880, aged forty-nine
years. There were born to them ten children, of which our subject
was the second of the family.
- James F. received a good business education in the schools
of Janesville and then engaged in the
- contracting work with his father, and in 1895 embarked in
business for himself, in which he has been very successful not
only in a financial way but also in gaining and holding the esteem
of his fellow men.
- In politics Mr. HUTCHINSON is a Democrat, and has been honored
by the voters of Janesville,
- electing him mayor of the city for two terms and twice as
alderman of the Second ward. His amiable nature makes him very
popular with his fellow members in the different fraternal orders,
and he carries the passwords of the Masons, Odd Fellows and the
Elks. Together with the rest of his family he is an Episcopalian
in religious faith.
- On September 14, 1882, Mr. HUTCHINSON was united in marriage
with Miss Agnes OLSON,
- daughter of Andrew OLSON, of Janesville. There have been
born to Mr. and Mrs. HUTCHINSON two children - Fred O., born
June 22, 1884, and Althea E., born September 18, 1888.
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- Taken from "Rock County, Wisconsin, Vol. II"
by William Fiske Brown, (c)1908, pp. 918-919.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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