Beloit
December 22, 1858
Brother Benjamin & Wife,
Sunday Eve.
Here you will find your humble friend, Dottie & Hattie,
in a long little room. Contents of room:
stove, bed, rug carpet, chairs, table and in this you will find us ___ &
talking of you & stars that we left behind in Hutchinson. We reached here in safety; found folks are well
and glad to see us. Hattie was some sea
sick on our way down, but not bad. She
is much pleased with the place and so am I.
Like the Beloit people much.
Think I shall stop till spring anyhow. Business is very dull here. My brother is doing good business for the
times. I am going into trade with him or
in company with him the first of January.
Don’t expect to make much this winter.
If I can pay my way, will be satisfied.
Have found your brother & family in sound health. Have made a trade with him. He is to have the watch. I like him well, though he is not so much
of a man as his brother (J.B.) – in size. He seems much as you said he would , kind of
boyish. A good boy I should judge. He has a fine baby and wife. Mrs. B, how are the old ___? Hope well & the little cow, ___ she
holds out in milk.
Dec 26, Sunday Eve
You will see by the date of this that I have been some days absent,
and so I have. I have been away with
Judson a few days. So will try and
finish this now. I have no news to
share. We are all happy as the times will allow – times are hard. I
never saw such times in my life. No
money here, business is dull, just live & ___ is all. Your brother’s family
is all well. He is at work in his old
shop, but where he is going I can’t say.
I see him most every day. I would
like to just step in and see you all. Hope you are all well. Tell the little children that we thought of
them this Christmas and would have been glad to have visited them had the
distance not been so great. Will try and
come next time. Will now close by
wishing you all a Merry Christmas.
Truly yours,
A.J. H. [Adoniram Joseph Hutchison]
Historical
Note:
Hutchinson township took the name of its
village, founded November 19, 1855, by the brothers, Asa, Judson, and John
Hutchinson, with others. These brothers were members of the famous family of
many singers, born in Milford, N. H., who gave concerts of popular and
patriotic songs throughout the United States after 1841 until the close of the
civil war. Hutchinson was incorporated as a village February 9, 1881, and as a
city in 1904.
Asa Burnham Hutchinson, youngest of the brothers founding Hutchinson, where he afterward lived, was born March 14, 1823, and died at his home here November 25, 1884. Adoniram Judson Joseph Hutchinson, commemorated by the name of Judson lake, recently drained, about a mile north of this city, was born March 14, 1817, and died in Lynn, Mass., January 10, 1859. John Wallace Hutchinson, born January 4, 1821, resided many years in Lynn, Mass., and was author of the "Story of the Hutchinsons," two volumes, 495 and 416 pages, published in 1896. Koniska, a village platted in 1856 on the South fork of Crow river, for utilization of its water-power, has been mainly superseded by the villages and cities on railways.
Asa Burnham Hutchinson, youngest of the brothers founding Hutchinson, where he afterward lived, was born March 14, 1823, and died at his home here November 25, 1884. Adoniram Judson Joseph Hutchinson, commemorated by the name of Judson lake, recently drained, about a mile north of this city, was born March 14, 1817, and died in Lynn, Mass., January 10, 1859. John Wallace Hutchinson, born January 4, 1821, resided many years in Lynn, Mass., and was author of the "Story of the Hutchinsons," two volumes, 495 and 416 pages, published in 1896. Koniska, a village platted in 1856 on the South fork of Crow river, for utilization of its water-power, has been mainly superseded by the villages and cities on railways.
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