CLASS OF 1879
Charles Carroll Hutchinson died December 13 in Mercy Hospital, Prescott, Arizona, from injuries received in an automobile accident at Seligman in that state a few days earlier.
Mr. Hutchinson was born in Sutton, Vt„ July IS, 1852, his parents being William and Susan (Hill) Hutchinson. His college preparation was made at Lyndon Literary Institute, his course in College that of the Chandler Scientific Department, and his fraternity the Vitruvian (now the Beta Theta Pi). After graduation he was for a short time with a publishing house in Kansas City, and then was employed as a surveyor in Colorado and Texas. In 1884 he went to Socorro, New Mexico, and engaged in mining, soon removing to Congress, Arizona, in the same occupation.
In 1892, he embarked in the sheep raising industry, and later made large investments in cattle raising. In this calling, which he followed for the rest of his life, he had attained great prominence and large pecuniary success. The following estimate of the man deserves to be quoted:
"With great physical strength and endurance he possessed unusual mental power, and notwithstanding the exactions of his widely scattered business interests he found time to read his favorite authors, and was always looking for the best books. He was considered one of the best business men in the state. He left no enemies; everyone was his friend. His partner in the live stock business —a banker of wide acquaintance—told me that of all the men he knew Hutchinson was the last to lose his poise, and that he never knew his spirits to be depressed, even in the lean years when the rains failed and their flocks were decimated."
During his earlier years in the sheep industry, Mr. Hutchinson made his home at Flagstaff, but later removed to Phoenix. He was a member of the Baptist church an a Knight Templar. In 1910 Mr. Hutchinson was a member of the Baptist church and a tion of Arizona, but had declined all other public offices.
He was married at Caldwell, Idaho, December 23, 1908, to Mrs. Ella St. Clair, daughter of Robert and Charlotte Hunter of Rock Port, Missouri. She survives her husband, but there were no children.
