- JAMES S. HUTSON, proprietor of the HUTSON House, Stoughton;
a native of Michigan; his
- parents, John and Mary HUTSON, were natives of Lincolnshire,
England, but emigrated to America and located in Cass Co., Mich.,
where James S. was born in 1841; in 1851, the family removed
to Wisconsin, and in 1855, located at Edgerton, Rock Co., where
the father of our subject built the United States House, and
was its proprietor for a number of years; he afterward died there;
his widow still resides at Edgerton. James S. made his home
at Edgerton till about 1859, where he engaged in farming in that
vicinity for two years; in 1861, he went via the Isthmus to California,
and followed stock-raising, dairying, etc., for about two years,
after which he returned to Edgerton and engaged in the cigar
manufactory for a time. He next went to Atchison, Kan., where
he continued the cigar manufactory for nearly a year, then following
railroading for about the same length of time, and later, he
went to Lawrence, thence to Humboldt, where he resumed the cigar
trade for two years; in 1872, he returned again to Edgerton,
Wis., and there followed the same line of business for nine months,
and in September 1874, removed to Stoughton, where he continued
the cigar trade for some time. Dec. 10, 1877, he became a proprietor
of the HUTSON House. He was a member of the Village Board in
1875-76. He was married in Kansas, Sept. 9, 1871 to Carrie H.,
daughter of William B. and Fannie JOHNSON, a native of New York.
Mr. H. is a member of the Masonic Fraternity and I.O.O.F.
Taken from "The History of Dane County, Wisconsin"
(c)1880 Western Historical Company, Chicago, p. 1088.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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