Henry C. Hutzell (1848-1921)

HUTZELL

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Date: 3/26/2022 at 16:15:40

Henry C. Hutzell
(June 17, 1848 – September 7, 1921)

Sixteen years have passed since Henry C. Hutzell came to Calhoun County, and
during this period he has been well known by reason of his enterprise and progressiveness in his farm work. He was born in Washington, Maryland, on the 17th of January, 1869 [17 June 1848], and is a son of Samuel and Eliza (Middlecough) Hutzell, who were also natives of Maryland. Throughout his entire business career, the father followed farming, but died at the early age of thirty-eight years. His wife still survives him and is yet living in Maryland. In their family were seven children, namely: Henry C. Alice, Jacob, John, Samuel, Lilly and William.
Henry C. Hutzell remained in his native state until eighteen years of age and during that time mastered the English branches of learning taught in the common schools. Deciding to seek a home in the west he made his way to Illinois, settling in Ogle County, where he remained for four years, and on the
expiration of that period removed to Dallas County, Iowa, in about 1871. Thirteen years passed and in 1886 he came to Calhoun County, where he had previously purchased a farm, upon which he now lives. He has one hundred and sixty acres of rich and arable land in Twin Lakes Township and he also
leases land, having operated more than four hundred acres for several years. He plants annually from one hundred to one hundred and thirty acres to corn and from ninety to one hundred and twenty-five acres to small grain while the remainder is divided to hay and pasture land. He is likewise successfully engaged in stock raising, keeping on hand from forty to ninety head of short horn cattle and from eight to twelve head of horses. Everything about his place is neat and thrifty in appearance and indicates his careful supervision.
When only twenty-one years of age, an important event in the life of Mr. Hutzell occurred, for at that time he was united in marriage to Miss Susan Middlecauff, who was born in Maryland. Their union has been blessed with eleven children, namely: Edward, Grace. Harvey, Earl, Florence, Louis, Benton, Etta, Cecil, Delia and Nellie. In his political views Mr. Hutzell is a Democrat, having supported this party since attaining his majority. In religious views he is liberal but at all times he has followed the golden rule and his reputation in business circles for honesty and fair dealing is above question. All that he has had has been made through his own labors and his efforts
have brought to him a very desirable competence. His worth as a man and citizen is widely acknowledged and Calhoun County numbers him among its leading agriculturists. [Source – Biographical Record of Calhoun County, Iowa, by S. J. Clarke, 1902, p.261]