Harold was the first child born to Roy and Bessie Drumb Hutton on December 19, 1919 in Grampa Drumb's house.  His dad was a farmer and a laborer in St. Lawrence County.  He was raised in large, poor family and lived in many homes and at one time attended Altmar Union School in a schoolhouse on a hill.  Harold attended his final year of high school at Dean High School in Gouverneur were he graduated at the age of 16. Harold was a ham radio enthusiast.
During the depression he traveled around the United States as a hobo.  In 1939, he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and worked in Sherburne, New York.  Later he worked in the Revere Copper and Brass factory in Rome, New York.  In September of 1941, Harold joined the U.S. Marine Corps, went through boot camp at Camp Lejune and ended up in radio school in Norfolk, Virginia when he heard news on the radio about the bombing of Pearl Harbor.  Harold ended up in British Samoa, Guam, then in the Battle of Guadalcanal in September of 1942 as a radio operator.  On January 7, 1943 he headed to the hospital in Australia with malaria, filariasis, hookworm and amoebic dysentery.  He returned  to stateside from Australia and spent nine months  in the San Diego Naval Hospital. 
Harold Hutton and Irene Stempski, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, met on a train from Chicago in 1943.  Six months later they were married in Milwaukee on January 1, 1944.  Harold and Irene lived in San Diego where their first child, Kitty, was born. The Hutton family moved back to New York and lived with his parents on a farm near Boonville, NY and  in New London. In 1951 Harold was hired by Montgomery Ward in the service department at the Herkimer store. Harold and Irene and their five children moved to Ilion, NY and in  1954  to Herkimer. Harold worked many years for Montgomery Ward and ended up as the head of the service department.  After 25 years at Montgomery Ward he began a position at the Herkimer Hospital in the maintenance department where he retired.  He was a good bowler and served as secretary of his bowling league for many years.  He also enjoyed playing softball, gardening , umpiring for little league baseball, camping in the Adirondacks, and was very active in the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Marine Corps League.  Harold worked a great deal on his family genealogy and was president of the Hutton-Drumb Reunions for many years.
Harold fought his final battle with cancer and died in the care of his daughter Terry at her home in Ilion in 2005.