Amador County Biographies

JOHN W. HUTCHINS

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Is a native of the State of Maine, and was born in Hermon, Penobscot county, June 24, 1828. His 
father was one of the principal farmers and lumber-dealers of that section of the country, and 
our subject was trained to those callings during his early life. He received a common school 
education, and in 1853 cut loose from the ties that bound him to his native town, and sought his 
fortune in the far West. During the last-named year he arrived in California, and for ten years was 
engaged in mining in Amador county. In 1863 he entered the United States Army as a member of the 
seventh regiment, California Volunteers, and served as a soldier for about eighteen months. His service 
was principally in Arizona, a country well calculated to destroy the ambition of the most valiant and 
patriotic of our boys in blue. After his discharge from the service he returned to Clinton, where he 
has since resided. Mr. Hutchins has held the office of Justice of the Peace, being elected in 1856 and '57, a 
position he creditably filled. The history of his successes and reverses in fortune would fill an ordinary 
volume. He is unmarried. 

History of Amador, California With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches 
of its Prominent Men and PioneersOakland, California, Thompson and West, 
1881.