Spence Atwell Hutt
Hutt, Spence Atwell M. D., was born,
September 19th, 1824, in Ross county, Ohio. He was one of seven children of Nimrod Hutt
and Fanny B. Atwell. His father was a
Virginian who followed mercantile pursuits for the greater part of life, and in
his latter days was proprietor of a hotel in Bainbridge, Ross county, Ohio.
About 1805 the senior Hutt left his Virginia home, and settled in
Circleville, Ohio. From there he moved
to Chillicothe, and thence to Bainbridge, where he died in 1849. S. Hutt’s mother died June 3d, 1875, at
Hillsborough, Highland county, Ohio. He
worked as a farmer’s boy, and while so employed, thought of a trade, and
accordingly went to work at blacksmithing, in Bainbridge, Ross county, where he
worked at the forge for about two years and a half. From here he went to New Petersburgh, Highland county, where he
was engaged as a clerk until about 1845, when he took a position in a
Chillicothe store. Returning to New
Petersburgh, he was again employed as clerk in a store. He now began to read medicine with Dr. James
D. Miller, devoting his days to business and his nights to study. In the fall of 1848 he matriculated at the
Starling Medical College, at Columbus, Ohio, and in the spring of 1849 he began
the practice of medicine at Sharonville, Pike county, Ohio. In the following fall he took up his
residence in Waverly, in the same county, where he has since lived in the
enjoyment of the fruits of industry applied to the practice of his
profession. Although a Democrat of
pronounced views his modest and retiring nature has kept him out of political strife. He is a genial, companionable, energetic, irreproachable
character. On the 13th of
July, 1852, he married Keziah Hinson, of Waverly, Pike county, Ohio.
Source:
The biographical encyclopædia of Ohio of the nineteenth century. 1876.
Galaxy Publishing Company. P.
457.