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VOL. XXIV. 



DETROIT, MICHIGAN, JULY 1, 1911. 



Nos. 6 -- 7. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON 



by 

 E. B. TYRRELL. 



-^^^ LWAYS looking on the bright 

 ^,*^i\, side of life, always starting his 

 daily task with a boy's enthusi- 

 asm, never discouraged no matter what 

 happened, ever ready with a word of 

 encouragement, such was the character 

 of the man whose picture is this Re- 

 view's frontispiece. 



What a lesson there is for us in tl;e 

 life of Mr. Hutchinson. How prone 

 we are to bemoan our fate if things 

 don't go just as we wish them to. How 

 often we feel that our row is just a 

 little harder to hoe than is the other 

 fellow's. How many splendid achieve- 

 ments remain unaccomplished simply 

 because we lack the courage to begin 

 them, or possibly we begin them and 

 then fall by the wayside when we re- 

 ceive the first bump. 



Not so, however, with our good 

 friend, Mr. Hutchinson. Who ever 

 heard him complain? And yet he 

 seemed to have more than his share 

 of mislortunes during his whole life. 



Born in New York State in 1851, he 

 •came with his parents to Michigan 

 when but four years old. The State 

 was then mostly covered with mag- 

 nificent forests. Here he grew to man- 

 hood, and, to use his words, "saw the 

 forests recede and give place to culti- 

 vated fields, log-houses give place to 

 more comfortable modern homes, ox- 

 tcams supplanted by horses, and, still 

 later, the iron horse- was given a warm 

 welcome." 



On June 13th, 1875, Mr. Hutchinson 

 was united in marriage to Miss May 

 Simpson, of Flushing, Mich. Their 

 married life began in a house in Thet- 

 ford, built, before marriage, by the 

 groom's own hands. A business trip 

 called him away before this house was 

 completed, and while on his way home 

 he was taken seriously ill of measles. 

 He managed to get home, but was ill 

 a long time. This postponed the wed- 

 ding, and to add to the misfortune, 

 what little he had laid by to begin this 



