Hutton, Joseph (1825-1892)

HUTTON, GOUGHNOUR, DAVIS, EASTLEY

Posted By: Jane Adams (email)
Date: 6/24/2005 at 21:53:55

Fairfield Ledger
Mar. 30, 1892
Page 2, col. 4.

DEATH OF A JEFFERSON PIONEER. The Des Moines Register notes the death in that city, March 17th, of Joseph Hutton, a brother of Stephen Hutton of Locust Grove Township and a pioneer settler of Des Moines township, this county. It says: Joseph Hutton, who died of blood poisoning at Tracy Home Hospital March 17th, aged 66 years and 7 months, was one of the best know hotel keepers in the state. The traveling public will remember him as the genial host at Elkhart. He was born in Kentucky in 1825, but his parents shortly afterwards removed to Indiana, where he grew to maturity. He came to Iowa in 1844, when it was yet a territory, and settled in Jefferson County. He was married to Miss Martha Goughnour in 1847. They came to Des Moines in 1855, where he engaged in business and for years conducted a saw mill on the banks of the Des Moines river. He cut the logs from Capitol Square, and from them sawed the lumber with which the fence and old state capitol were constructed. In 1861 he removed to Elkhart, where he erected the Exchange hotel. He resided there until taken to Tracy hospital, where he died. Dunkard Church. He left a wife and seven children, Henry of Denver, Col.; Sam of Madrid, Iowa; Etta Davis of Spangle, Wash.; Ida Eastley of Sumas, Wash.; Anna Hutton, a trained nurse of the corps of Tracy Home; George of Madrid; and David of Elkhart, all having attained their majority.....

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