Sutter-Yuba County Biographies RAY ELMER HUTCHINSON Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm A very interesting representative of a fine old family is Ray Elmer Hutchinson, who controls some 2268 acres of land, two fine ranches, the home place lying about six and one-half miles to the southwest of Marysville. He was born on December 11, 1880, on the old Hutchinson ranch, the son of Perkins Lafayette Hutchinson, who had married Miss Susan Maria Kuster. Perkins L. Hutchinson was born in Virginia on January 3, 1832, and he died on March 14, 1919. He was the son of Benjamin and Sabra (Oakes) Hutchinson, born in Virginia, the former on April 1, 1809. He died in 1840. The mother was born on December 12, 1808, and died on April 30, 1886. Benjamin and Sabra Hutchinson had five children: Perkins L. the father of our subject; Elijah W., who was born on June 1, 1833, and died on January 30, 1910; Ruth J. C., entered the family circle on January 2, 1835, and died on January 16, 1907; Margaret E., was born on May 5, 1837, and died November 15, 1886; and Joab N., was born on March 22, 1839, and is still living. Mrs. Susan Maria Hutchinson, a native of Switzerland, was born on January 13, 1850, and died on February 16, 1899. They were married on January 13, 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins Hutchinson had seven children. William Benjamin was born on August 30, 1871, and died on September 18, 1872; Fred Lafayette was born on November 27, 1873, and died November 1, 1923; Ralph P. was born on June 3, 1877; Ernest Emery was born on February 5, 1879; Ray Elmer was born on December 11, 1880; Oscar Rubin was born on September 9, 1883; and Susie Maria was born on October 12, 1894. By his first marriage, Mr. Hutchinson had one child, Belle Sabia, born November 11, 1862, who died January 11, 1924. The Hutchinsons came from old Virginia and migrated to Missouri, where they settled a few miles east of Warrentown; and the old home was on the south side of Indian Camp Creek, on the lower road from Troy to Wright City, Mo. The land was fresh and fertile, and crops of corn, wheat, oats, flax and tobacco were raised, as also were horses, cattle, sheep and hogs. In 1853, Perkins Hutchinson left his Missouri home for the Pacific Coast, crossing the plains with ox teams and wagons, reaching California in September of that year. His brother, Elijah W., a step-brother, Charles W. Gibson, and a neighbor�s boy, Elisha Calhoun, hitched five yoke of cattle to a wagon and started for the far-away country in the Golden West. Perkins arrived at Donnerville on September 13, 1853, and he settled in Yuba County, and took up farming. He acquired a large tract of land, and farmed it until he died. Ray Hutchinson attended the Elizabeth District School, and he was associated with his father in grain and stockraising until the latter�s death. He was married at the old Hopkins ranch, on November 25, 1903, to Miss Loga Hopkins, who was born on the same place, the daughter of Thomas Benton and Mary Frances (Harkins) Hopkins, the former a native of Missouri and the latter of Illinois. Thomas Hopkins came to California at the age of eighteen, and for a while teamed at Nevada City, Carson City and Virginia City, Nevada, carrying freight from California, and later in life he farmed on some 900 acres lying about seven miles north of Wheatland, which he had bought. Mrs. Hutchinson has two half-sisters, for her father had previously been married, and he had one daughter, Jennie Belle, and her mother was also previously married, and was the widow of Reuben Hobbs, by whom she had a daughter, Emaline Elizabeth Hobbs. Loga is the only child by the marriage of Thomas and Frances (Harkins) Hopkins. Thomas Hopkins died in 1906, and Frances Hopkins is still residing in Watsonville. Mrs. Hutchinson attended school in the Elizabeth and Virginia districts, and after their marriage, she and her husband purchased a small place near the Elizabeth School, with scenes familiar to her from childhood, and they lived there, while Mr. Hutchinson worked on his father�s ranch. They have one daughter, Madeline. Out of the old Hutchinson estate, our subject received 880 acres of land in Linda Township, and since then he has purchased 1388 acres in Nevada County, devoted to grazing. He now makes his home on his ranch in Linda Township and engages in both general farming and stockraising; and he has a few head of cattle and 230 head of sheep. He leases out his Nevada County property, and runs only his own place. Mr. Hutchinson is a Democrat, but he usually votes free of party trammels, and seeks to support the best men and the best measures. He is a member of Linda Farm Center, the Marysville District Wool Growers� Association, and California Wool Growers� Association. History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924 p 1222