This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/4145 Message Board Post: Lewis George Hutchings, a prosperous and well-known young farmer of Plainfied township, Kent county, Mich., is the second son of Robert M. and Mary A. (Gross) Hutchings, and was born October 20, 1866. He was rared on the old homestead, of which more may be read in the sketch of Willis Hutchings, and remained with his parents until about twenty years of age, when, November 1, 1886, he married Miss Almeda M. Long and began the battle of life in earnest. He first hired out to a neighbor for six months and then took his wife to Minneapolis, Minn., where he secured a situation as barn boss at a saw-mill. Two years later he returned to his old home in Plainfield, remained one year, and then rented a farm in Algoma township, which he cultivated three years; he next moved to an adjoining farm on the south, which he also cultivated for three years, and then went to Newaygo county, to act as overseer of a 1,000-acre farm in Ashland township. Four years later, or in the spring of 18! 98, he purchased the old homestead of 100 acres in Plainfield township, and this he makes his present home. Mrs. Almedia M. Hutchings was born in the village of Sparta, Kent county, Mich., March 10, 1863, and is a daughter of Jacob and Margaret Fansler Long, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Pennsylvania. She has blessed her husband with three children, Mazie, Bernice and Melbourne. Mrs. Hutchings is a most amiable lady and is noted everywhere for her qualifications as a housekeeper. Mr and Mrs. Hutchings are not members of any church organization, but incline toward the doctrines of the Baptists; yet they are liberal in their contributions toward the support of church and school. In politics Mr. Hutchings upholds the democratic party, having cast his first presidential vote for Grover Cleveland in 1888. He is an intelligent, hard-working man, thrifty as well as enterprising, and well deserves the high esteem in which he is held by his neighbors.