. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. Grange. The Hutchinson lamily has long been promi-nent in Milford, the ancestor, Nathan Hutchinson, beingone of the early settlers of the town. His son, Benjamin,great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, marrieda daughter of WilliamPeabody, the first set-tler of the town, wholocated on land grant-ed an uncle for heroismin battle. BenjaminHutchinson 2d, son ofBenjamin, received,through his mother,the land embraced inthe present Hutchinsonfarm, and upon whichhis son, Benjamin F.,father of Emri C, wasborn June 10, 1814,and has alway
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. Grange. The Hutchinson lamily has long been promi-nent in Milford, the ancestor, Nathan Hutchinson, beingone of the early settlers of the town. His son, Benjamin,great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, marrieda daughter of WilliamPeabody, the first set-tler of the town, wholocated on land grant-ed an uncle for heroismin battle. BenjaminHutchinson 2d, son ofBenjamin, received,through his mother,the land embraced inthe present Hutchinsonfarm, and upon whichhis son, Benjamin F.,father of Emri C, wasborn June 10, 1814,and has always re-sided. Benjamin married Eliza Richardson, and the worthycouple celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their mar-riage some years since. He has always taken a stronginterest in agricultural progress and was one of the firstmen in the state to engage in and report the result ofscientific feeding experiments. He was an active mem-ber of the State Board of Agriculture in the early daysof the organization, was for several years president of. Emri C. Hutchinson. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 313 the Hillsborough County Agricultural Society, and alsorepresented his town in the state legislature. Emri C. Hutchinson was born July 31, 1849, ^ipon thefarm where he was reared and has alwa3s resided, thelocation being near Richardsons Crossing, on the Wil-ton railroad, about two miles from Milford village. Hewas educated in the town schools and the private schoolof Prof. W. L. Whittemore, and entered the first classin the New Hampshire College of Agriculture, but didnot complete the course. August 9, 1876, he was unitedin marriage with Miss Annie E. Lovejoy of Peterborojwho has been a most faithful companion and assistant inthe work in which he has been engaged. They havetwo daughters,—M. Roselle and Medora A. Mr. Hutchinson, like his father, has always beenstrongly interested in agriculture, and has been promi-nently identified with organizations promotive of its prog-res
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