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WILLIAM A. HUTCHISON, farmer, P. O. Aberdeen. William Hutchison, the grandfather of our subject, was born in the Blue Mountains, in Loudoun County, Va., about seventy-five miles from Richmond, in 1757, and died in Brown County January 7, 1841, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, participated in the decisive battle in which Cornwallis was defeated, and stood near that General when he surrendered his sword to Washington. When about twenty-six years of age, he married Rebecca Cooper, a lady of about his own age, who was raised in his neighborhood. In 1795, he embarked in a flatboat at Pittsburgh, and, coming down the Ohio River, did not land for fear of the Indians and Tories along the river until he arrived at Maysville, then but a station of a few log cabins. After eight years’ residence at a fort four miles from Maysville, and where Washington, Ky., now stands, he bought sixty acres of land in Huntington Township, Brown County, Ohio, on which he lived until his death, as above given. His wife died in this township January 15, 1853, in the eighty-seventh year of her age. They were the parents of eleven children, all of whom lived to reach their majority; they were all Baptists, and the men were Democrats. Their youngest son Samuel, father of our subject, was born in Brown County in 1810, and, on March 4, 1841, married Tamar Lock, who was born in Brown County in 1820, and died August 9, 1878; she united with the Christian Church when quite young, and lived as a consistent member of that church until her death. By her Mr. Hutchison had eleven children, four sons and seven daughters. The father lived on the farm, originally purchased by his father, for sixty-nine years, and three years ago moved to Adams County. His son, William A., the subject of this sketch, was born in this township in 1845, and remained on the farm with his parents until twenty-seven years of age, when he commenced life for himself. He was married, December 19, 1872, to Fanny, daughter of Benjamin Payne, and a native of this county, where she was born November 23, 1851; by her he had three children — Micajah M., Clara B. and Nellie L. After his marriage, he rented his father’s farm until 1881, when he purchased 101 acres of land where he now resides. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church, to which they connected themselves eight years ago.