Representative Samuel T. Hutchison View All Years
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Samuel T. Hutchison
Calhoun County
Born September 16, 1840, in Barnesville, Ohio. He obtained his early education in Fairview, that state, and was living with his father when the south attempted to overthrow the Union by secession. Among the first to enlist, he responded to his country's call on the 29th of April, 1861, becoming a member of Company C, Twenty-fifth Ohio Infantry, under command of Captain Jerry Williams and Colonel J. A. Jones. He had enlisted as a private, was promoted to corporal, then to sergeant, then to acting sergeant major, orderly sergeant, and when discharged held a commission as first lieutenant of Company G, Twenty-fifth Ohio Infantry. Returning to Masterton, Ohio, Mr. Hutchison engaged in teaching school for six months, but believing that he might better his financial condition in the west he came to Calhoun county, Iowa, in May, 1866, and for sixteen months was connected with educational work here. His fellow townsmen, recognizing his worth and ability, called him to public office in the fall of 1867 by electing him county treasurer, and in that capacity he served for four years, from 1868 until 1871. In 1873 he became county recorder and also filled that position for four years, while for one year he was county supervisor. In 1879 he was elected to represent his district, comprising Calhoun, Carroll and Greene counties, in the state legislature serving in the Eighteenth General Assembly, and proved an able member of that body. To each question which came up for consideration he gave careful and earnest thought, and supported with zeal and activity every movement which he believed would contribute to the general good. Since his retirement from the office he gave his attention to abstracting and the real estate business, and later to banking. On the 23d of November, 1869, Mr. Hutchison was united in marriage to Elizabeth S. Hold, a daughter of Lorenzo Dow and Susana (Houston) Hold. Mr. Hutchison is a prominent member of Lander Post, No. 157, G. A. R., and his wife has more than a state reputation in connection with the work of the Woman's Relief Corps. Mr. Hutchison is a man of wide experience and broad mind, who has many friends all over the state, being one who is clearly entitled to be classed as one of nature's noblemen.
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