Mrs. Mary A. Dutcher Biography - Mecosta County, MI.

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1883 Mecosta County Portrait and Bio Album, Chapman Brothers

MRS. MARY A. DUTCHER, residing on sec. 29, of Green Tp., was born in 
Liverpool, Eng., Aug. 16, 1820. She is a daughter of Edward and Elizabeth 
(Fowle) Hudson, natives of England. They came to America in 1823 and 
landed at St. John, New Brunswick on the ninth of May. They were residents 
there until their death.  
 
Mrs. Dutcher was married Dec. 26, 1840, to Alexander McPhee, a native of 
Halifax, Nova Scotia. They went to Canada West and in 1861 moved to 
Michigan, locating in Mecosta County, where the husband followed farming 
until his death, which occurred May 21, 1864.  
 
The widow was a second time married in 1866, to Simeon S. Dutcher, a native 
of Greenbush, N.Y. He died June 30, 1880. Mrs. Dutcher has been a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church for 20 years.