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9941 DAVIESS CO - HITE, BENONIA - Hite, Figg, Jones
9942 DAVIESS CO - HITE, JOHN J - Hite, Figg, Sands, Cambron
9943 DAVIESS CO - HITE, THOMAS T - Hite, Figg, Harrison, Cook
9944 GRANT CO - HUTCHINSON, JAMES W - Hutchinson, Humphreys, Lawrence
9945 PULASKI CO - DUTTON, SHERROD W MD -Dutton, Murdock, Betts,
Satterthwaite, Frazier, McKinley, Eastham, Burkhart, Chesney, Jasper,
Martin, Mickle, Sandifer, Turner, Hawes, Lawrence, Floyd, Mitchell

#9941: History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p. 681.
BENONIA HITE was born in Shelby County, Ky., March 9, 1841. His father,
William Hite, was born in Virginia, and came to Shelby County, Ky., when a
child. He married Courtney Figg. Benonia was their fifth son; he was but
five years old when his father died. In 1856 the family came to Daviess
County, Ky., and they settled on the farm now owned by his brother, John J.
Hite, in Masonville Precinct. Benonia remained with his mother until
twenty. He then worked on farms for different parties until his marriage to
Sallie Jones, Jan. 19, 1865, a native of Masonville. They have had nine
children--James T., born Sept. 14, 1865; Robert E., born July 4, 1867;
Artelea F., born Nov. 19, 1868; Mellie L., born March 15, 1870; Lucinda A.,
born Dec. 11, 1871; Arthur L., born March 10, 1874; Ethelinda S., born Feb.
10, 1876; Eileen A., born July 19, 1878; Zoloam L., born July 1, 1880, died
Oct. 10, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Hite are members of the Baptist church. Mr.
Hite owns a farm of ninety-eight and a half acres, all under cultivation
except ten acres of timber. He is of English descent; in politics is a
Democrat. Mr. Hite's children, Robert E., Artelia and Mellie L., are
members of the Baptist church.

#9942: History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p. 681.
JOHN J. HITE, born in Shelby County, Ky., Oct. 16, 1836, was the fourth son
of William C. and Courtney (Figg) Hite, natives of Virginia and Kentucky
respectively. His father came to Shelby County when a child and resided
there till his death. He died when John J. was nine years old. In November,
1856, Mr. Hite's mother came to Daviess County with her family and settled
on the farm where her son now resides. She died Jan. 2, 1876, aged seventy
years. Oct. 9, 1881, Mr. Hite married Zarilda (Sands) Hite, the widow of
his brother, Lorenzo D., and the daughter of William and Mary (Cambron)
Sands. She was born in Daviess County, Nov. 30, 1846. Mr. Hite has a fine
farm of 200 acres, eighty under cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Hite are members
of the Methodist Episcopal church. In politics he is a Democrat. Mr. Hite's
brother, Lorenzo D., was born April 24, 1831, and was married Dec. 7, 1864.
He had a family of five children, four still living--Mildred D., born Sept.
2, 1867; Frances E., born Aug. 28, 1870; John W., born March 29, 1872;
Lorenzo M., born Jan. 29, 1876. Mr. Hite was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church.

#9943: History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p. 682.
THOMAS T. HITE, born in Shelby County, Ky., Dec. 13, 1834, was a son of
William and Courtney T. (Figg) Hite. They had a family of ten children,
seven sons and three daughters, Thomas T. being the third son and fifth
child. He was but ten years old when his father died. In 1856 the family
came to Daviess County and settled on a farm in Masonville Precinct. Thomas
remained here a year, then worked for Newtigan Harrison a year; then he and
his brother, John J., farmed together until his marriage to Nancy E. Cook,
Dec. 22, 1859. She was born in Cass County, Mo., Dec. 8, 1840, and was a
daughter of Washington and Rebecca (Harrison) Cook. After his marriage, Mr.
Hite settled on his farm in Masonville Precinct. He soon after sold it and
leased one in Upper Town Precinct for six or seven months; then returned to
Masonville and remained four or five months; then rented a farm in Murray
Precinct six years; then purchased his present farm in Masonville Precinct,
where he and family still reside, and where he owns a fine farm of 140
acres, seventy-five acres under cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Hite have had a
family of five children--Austin K., born Jan. 16, 1861; James W., born July
9, 1862; Joseph B., born Nov. 19, 1864; Anna E., born April 31, 1867;
William C., born Feb. 2, 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Hite are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church, Masonville. In politics he is rather
independent and votes rather for men than measures.

#9944: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th
ed., Grant Co. JAMES W. HUTCHINSON was born in Harrison County, Ky.,
February 22, 1846, and is the younger of two children born to James and
Elizabeth (Humphreys) Hutchinson, natives of Harrison County, Ky. John
David, the older brother was born in 1844, and died in 1878. James
Hutchinson, the father, was born in Harrison County in 1821, and died in
the same county in 1882, he was a son of William Hutchinson. James
Hutchinson's wife, Elizabeth, a daughter of David Humphreys, of Harrison
County, died in 1852 at the age of twenty-eight years. Her father, David
Humphreys, died in 1866, aged eighty-seven years. James W. Hutchinson, at
the age of six years, moved from Harrison to Grant County, and was reared
on a farm. He received his education at the common schools and at Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio. He was married in 1867 to Miss Alice Lawrence,
and began business in Dry Ridge, Ky., in 1868, where he has since lived.
Mrs. Hutchinson was born in 1850, and died in 1873, leaving two children:
Maud and Fred.

#9945: A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by
William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society,
Topeka. [Revised ed.] Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1919. Jefferson Co.
SHERROD W. DUTTON, M. D. The first professional service required in a
pioneer community is usually that supplied by the physician. The early
settlers in Kansas were all around men. They could perform in a rough
fashion the duties of a carpenter, the housebuilder, the blacksmith, they
had the Anglo-Saxon trait of being able to govern themselves, and in the
absence of a regular minister they could gather together under a tree or in
some humble cabin and worship God. Nor were they lacking altogether in
ability to minister to the sick and suffering. But they were likely to
welcome a regular physician above all others who were competent to render
some special sort of service. Many of the first doctors in Western Kansas
have long since given up practice, have left the country, or have died. One
of those specially competent to recall the scenes of early days and early
trials is Doctor Dutton, who was among the first settlers in the McCracken
community of Rush County. He arrived in 1880. At that time only a few sod
houses were scattered over the site now occupied by that city. He located
on a claim, his homestead being four and a half miles south of the present
town of McCracken. There he built a sod house of two rooms, and into that
humble abode he moved his family, consisting of his wife and two children.
He planned to develop the homestead as a farm, but the demands of his
professional service sadly interfered with that program. His first office
was in the kitchen of his home, but subsequently he bought a quarter
section of land across the road from the homestead and used the vacant
house which stood there as his office. There were no telephones, no
railroads, the dugouts and sod houses were often miles apart, and in the
absence of drug stores and other conveniences which are accepted by the
modern world as matters of course, he had to carry not only the implements
of his profession, but also most of the drugs and medicines he used. He
often went to see his patients on foot, though for the most part he rode a
horse. The territory he had to cover in the early days was bounded by a
radius around his home of not less than thirty miles. Wind and rain, cold
and heat, were no obstacles to his rendering all the service he could to
the sick and suffering over that broad extent of territory. At night he
directed his course by the north star and if the sky was cloudy he would
observe the direction of the wind and direct his journey accordingly.
Almost the first essential for the success of a pioneer practitioner was a
sturdy physique, one capable of withstanding all the fatigue and hardships,
and a great many of the young graduates of medical colleges of the present
day would readily surrender their diplomas and seek work elsewhere rather
than enter upon a practice involving such tremendous physical toil and
hardship as Doctor Dutton had to face thirty or thirty-five years ago in
Western Kansas. Though he lived on his farm about six years, Doctor Dutton
was too much engaged with his practice to carry out any extensive
improvements, and he finally left the farm and moved into McCracken, which
was just beginning to grow as a town. Of the residents of McCracken at that
time Doctor Dutton knows of only two who are still in the town. He erected
his own home there in 1887, and is still active as a physician, and is
regularly called to the homes of some of the families whom he doctored
thirty or thirty-five years ago. He erected the first drug store in
McCracken, and he has continued that as a part of his business enterprise.
Doctor Dutton is now a man seventy-five years of age, and has had a great
range of experience in the Middle Western States. He was born in Pulaski
County, Kentucky, September 8, 1841. He finished his literary education in
Hayden University, and as a young man taught school in Kentucky, Indiana,
and also in Butler County, Kansas. He came to Kansas from Blackhawk,
Indiana. His medical studies were carried on in the Kentucky School of
Medicine at Louisville and in the University of Louisville, from which
latter institution he graduated in 1865. He did his first practice at
Somerset and Mill Springs, Kentucky, later practiced in Indiana, and in
1871 settled in Butler County, Kansas. From there he removed to Barber
County. He presided at the first obstetrical case in Barber County. That
was in April, 1873, when the first white child born in the county came into
the world. The scene of that birth and pioneer professional service of
Doctor Dutton was four miles south of Medicine Lodge. From Barber County he
soon returned to Eldorado, Kansas, and spent most of his time in medical
practice there until he removed to Rush County in 1880. While living in
Butler County Doctor Dutton was actively associated with the leaders in
public affairs, particularly men like Bent Murdock, Joe Satterthwaite, John
Betts and Frank Frazier. In the early years after coming to Rush County he
was himself a leader in democratic politics, served two terms as coroner,
and at one time was defeated for representative of the State Legislature.
His first presidential vote was cast for Seymour in 1868. He continued an
adherent of the democratic party until Bryan became the foremost exponent
of its principles, and in that campaign he voted for William McKinley and
has since been a republican. While a democrat Doctor Dutton was chairman of
his party committee and was frequently a delegate to conventions. He has
also been chairman of one republican county convention. For the past
twenty-one years he has been on the board of pension examiners for Rush
County and is now its chairman. He is an active Methodist, for fifteen
years has been teacher of the Bible class of the church at McCracken, is a
past master of his Masonic Lodge, has attended the Masonic Grand Lodge, and
has also been a delegate to the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows in Kansas. For
twenty-four years Doctor Dutton served as local surgeon for the Missouri
Pacific Railway at McCracken, and he is a member of the Kansas Medical and
American Medical associations. His family is a very old one in America. His
great-great-grandfather Dutton came from England and located in Virginia.
His great-grandfather was a soldier under George Washington during the
Revolutionary war. David Dutton, grandfather of Doctor Dutton, was a native
of Lee County, Virginia, and spent his boyhood in that county while the
Revolutionary war was in progress. In 1798, he moved across the mountains
into Pulaski County, Kentucky, and he died near Somerset in that state. He
combined the vocations of farmer and carpenter. The battle of Dutton's Hill
in the Civil war was fought on his farm in Kentucky. David and Mary Dutton
had the following children: William; Mrs. Kate Eastham; Jonathan S.; Mrs.
Sallie Burkhart; Martin, who lives at Lincoln, Nebraska; and David, Jr.
Jonathan S. Dutton, father of Doctor Dutton, was born near Somerset,
Kentucky, in June, 1811. He had the advantages of the common schools of
that day and his chief work through his active career was the trade of
carpenter. In early life he served as major of the Kentucky militia. He
afterwards came to Kansas and died at Eldorado in 1887. Jonathan Dutton
married Martha Chesney, whose father, John Chesney, came from Scotland,
first settling at Culpeper Court House, Virginia, and in 1798 removing to
Kentucky, where he was a slave holding planter. John Chesney married a Miss
Jasper at Culpeper Court House, Virginia. Mrs. Jonathan Dutton died in
Butler County, Kansas, about a month after her husband's death. Their
children were: Sarah A., deceased, whose first husband was Henry Martin and
her second was Melvin Mickle; Keziah P., who died in Eldorado, Kansas, the
wife of George M. Sandifer; Dr. Sherrod W.; Mary, who died in Louisville,
Kentucky, the wife of Charles Turner; Josephine, Mrs. Wilson, living in
Texas; Mattie, who married Joe Satterthwaite, of Douglas; Kansas; Susie,
widow of Perry Hawes; Schuyler, who became a Union soldier in the Civil war
and was killed in Stoneman's raid. Doctor Dutton was married in Butler
County, Kansas, August 3, 1873, to Miss Susie Lawrence, a daughter of
Martin and Susan (Pond) Lawrence. Her father was a native of New York
State, went west to Wisconsin, and finally came to Kansas, locating on a
farm. Doctor and Mrs. Dutton have reared a family of four children: Chesney
L., of Meridian, Iowa; Vella, wife of Hayes Floyd, of Ness City; Jonathan
S., who is in France as a member of Company I, Twenty-Second Engineers, and
Mattie, wife of Pearl Mitchell, of Colorado.


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