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DAVID H. HUTCHISON, farmer, was born in Steuben county, N. Y., May 4, 1849, but at the age of six years was taken by his parents to Michigan and thence to Wisconsin, and in the latter state lived until he reached manhood. When about twenty-one he went to Illinois and followed for a living common laboring work in the vicinity of Dixon and Chicago. From Illinois he went to Iowa, in 1877, and for five years engaged in farming on rented land. In March, 1882, he came to Nebraska and bought from the railroad company his present farm — the northeast quarter of section 7, township 12, range 14 — then all wild and raw. He has now eighty acres in cultivation, raising mixed crops and graded live stock, including Clydesdale horses. On his first coming here he found no railroad, no town, and was compelled to go through all the hardships and inconveniences of pioneer life, but he bravely went to work and improved his homestead and now finds himself comfortably situated, with his post office at Ravenna, one and one-half miles to the southeast, and railroad facilities at the same point.

William Hutchison, the father of the subject of this sketch, was also a native of the State of New York, was a wagon-maker by trade and was also engaged in the saw-mill and lumber business. He married Miss Esther Sweet, who bore him thirteen children. Of these David H. is the fifth, and beside himself there are three of his brothers living in Buffalo county, Nebr., and there are also three of his brothers living in Cherry county, same state. In March, 1877, while in Illinois, David H. Hutchison married Miss Sarah, daughter of Calvin and Marietta Buffington, of Pennsylvania. The father of Mrs. Hutchison was a farmer, and settled near Dixon, Illinois, in 1856, and there died about ten years later. To the marriage of David H. and Sarah Hutchison have been born seven children in the following order — Frank, Marietta, Fred, Jessie (died in 1883, at the age of eleven months), Seth, Charles and Malcolm. In politics Mr. Hutchison is a republican. Mrs. Hutchison is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, but Mr. Hutchison, although a member of the same church when he was a resident of Illinois, does not at present affiliate with any religious society, but his upright and moral life wins for him the full respect of the community with which he has so happily cast his lot.