LUTHER N. HUTCHINSON, dental surgeon at Big Rapids (office on the N. W. corrner of North Michigan avenue and Maple street), was born in westmoreland, Oneida Co., N. Y., April 8, 1823. His parents were natives of Connecticut, and were married at Hartford, June 6, 1801. Warren Hutchinson, his father, was born Nov. 17, 1780; was a carpenter and joiner by trade, and during a considerable period of his life kept a hotel; he died Sept. 5, 1847. The mother Mary (Goddard) Hutchinson was born Feb. 19, 1781, and died in March, 1855. The family included four children - Warren S. (deceased), Ephraim F. (dec.) and Fannie J., widow of Isreal L. Adams, residing at Winona, Iowa. Dr. Hutchinson is the youngest child. He accompanied the family to Washtenaw County, this State, when 11 years old, and settled in Scio, where his father built a hotel. Both parents passed the remainder of their lives here, and their children reached adult age. Early in life Dr. Hutchinson developed a taste and genius for the career of an artist, and he devoted the first years of his manhood to portrait-painting; but was compelled to abandon this profession because of failing eyesight. In 1845 he went to Ypsilanti, where he worked at photography about two years. In 1847 he went to Dexter, and spent two and a half years in the office of Dr. Hollywood, reading for the practice of medicine. He went thence to Ann Arbor, and applied himself to the study of denistry, and was under the instructions of Prof. Bennett one year. After two years of practice at Ann Arbor, he went to Howell, this State, and pursued his profession two years, going thence to Sturgis, where he opened dental rooms, and operated until 1870, the date of his removal to Big Rapids.
Dr. Hutchinson was married at Scio, Jan. 2, 1843, to Ruth L. Richmond. Their son Ernest M., is now living, and is a dentist at Cadillac, this state. Aver M. died Feb. 22, 1865. The mother died, and the Doctor contracted a second marriage, July 27, 1870, to Adda C. Foote, daughter of Jacob J. and Sarah H. (Secord) Foote, a native of Scio. Glen L., their only child, died Jan. 11, 1879. Daisy, an adopted daughter, was taken to their hearts and home when five weeks old. She was born May 9, 1881.
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