Elizabeth (Ingmalles) Hutchinson, mother of the future Janesville mayor whose biography records the date, was born in Lincolnshire, England.

The evidence

• “Hutchinson, mayor of the city of Janesville, is a native son of Wisconsin, born December 31, 1856, at Dunkirk, Dane county, Wis. His parents were Stoakley and Elizabeth (Ingmalles) Hutchinson, who were both born and reared in England, the father in the town of March, Cambridgeshire, born November 13, 1826; the mother in Lincolnshire, born October 8, 1830. They came to the United States in 1852 and lived in New York city for three years, then removed to Wisconsin in 1855 and settled in Dunkirk, Dane county, where they farmed for three years.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 427 / book p. 918

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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