Levi and May Hutton

Shoshone County · dedicated 2025 · SH-4, milepost 7.07

Burke’s Hercules Mine brought great wealth to its investors—including May and Levi Hutton. May Arkwright owned a Wardner boarding house. Levi Hutton, a locomotive engineer, dined there regularly. After marrying in 1887, they invested their modest savings in the Hercules. In 1901, the partners struck a fabulously rich silver vein. May devoted much of her new prosperity to supporting women’s suffrage. The Huttons also donated generously to philanthropy. After May died in 1915, Levi purchased 111 acres east of Spokane and founded the Hutton Settlement for orphans. He died in 1928, bequeathing his fortune to the Settlement, which still exists.

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