dividual characteristics than of advantages accruing from the schools he had attended. He has been his own architect. He may, if he chooses, write "M. A." after his name, but titles are of little worth to one who can in his own person carve a name and acquire a fortune. Mr. Hunt married Miss Jessie Noble, of Des Moines, in 1885, and one son cheers the domestic hearth. This brief record of a former citizen of Story County, who has but reached the years of early manhood, is furnished by a friend rather as matter of historical than personal incident, and under the modest injunction of its subject to pass him by "with as little mention as possible."
Andrew J. Hunter came to Story County, Iowa, about the year 1855, and lived in the county from that time until the day of his death in November, 1886. He was a son of Craig and Margaret (Hipsher) Hunter, who were born in the " Keystone State," and was one of their eight children. He was married in 1862 to Miss Sarah E. Elder, a native of Decatur County, and a daughter of Robert Elder, and unto their marriage a family of six children were born, four of whom are still living and at home: Minnie (a teacher in the public schools of Sioux County), Inez A., Ernest J. and Daisy. Miss Minnie was educated in the schools of Ames, graduating in 1887 from the high school of that place, and is now a very successful teacher. Mr. Hunter had a beautiful farm of 120 acres, all of which was earned by hard toil and persistent endeavor, and at the time of his death left his family in good circumstances. They now reside on the farm which he labored so hard to obtain for them, and on this place Mrs. Hunter expects to spend the rest of her days, for here she has many friends and acquaintances. Mr. Hunter was a man whose habits were of the best, and in social life he was kind, courteous and affable in his demeanor to all, ever being found ready to aid enterprises which tended to the interests of his adopted county. In his political views he supported the measures of Democracy.
James Hutchison, retired, Ames, Iowa, is of Scotch parents, his father, Robert Hutchison, and his mother, whose maiden name was Miss Jean Craige, having been natives of Scotland. In 1831 they emigrated to Pictou, Nova Scotia, there remaining until 1837, when they again moved, going to Millersville, Penn. They were the parents of four sons and three daughters, of whom three sons and two daughters are now living. James Hutchison, their eldest son, was born in Johnston, Scotland, on the 30th of September, 1829. He received a common-school education in the public schools of Nova Scotia and Pennsylvania, and worked in the coal mines in Pennsylvania until the fall of 1852, when he went to California by the way of the Isthmus and Nicaragua, and worked at mining and washing gold at Columbia and Big Oak Flats and other places, until the fall of 1855. Returning to Plymouth, Penn., he was married to Miss Jean Love, a native also of Scotland, born at Toll Cross in March, 1833. She came with her parents to Nova Scotia in 1842. The father went to Maryland in 1846, the family following a few months after. In June, 1846, the vessel ran on a rock and went down along the coast of Massachusetts, and the mother and four children and some thirty others were drowned. To Mr. and Mrs. Hutchison were born these children: R. B., Alex L., Lida Jean, David L., William C., John R., Charles Stuart and James A. — seven sons and one daughter in all. After being married he went in company with three others and opened a coal mine in Plymouth, Penn., and worked it until 1860. Business being so poor it did not pay, Mr. Hutchison lost four years' work and what money he had