DUTTON, Charles

DUTTON, GRACE

Posted By: Administrator
Date: 10/17/2001 at 10:47:42

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF OLIVE TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879)
CHARLES DUTTON, farmer, Sec. 2; P. 0. Dc Witt; owns 252 acres acres,valued at $30 per acre; born Sept. 17, 1823. in Chenango Co., N. V.; in 1837,
started with the rest of' the family, from New York to Potter Co., Penn.; thence by raft to Madison, Jefferson Co., Ind., and,in the fall of 1838, came to Alton, Ill., and, in the spring following, to Clinton Co. His mother died in New York in 1837, and his father in this county
in 1859. Mr. D. married Hannah Grace Oct. 5, 1845 she was born in Tompkins Co., N. Y., Oct. 3, 1829; have one son—Horace G., born Sept. 15, 1865; lost three—Wilmot W., Ellen E. and Charles M. Has served as Township Trustee several years. Religion, Liberal.