DUTTON, Lorenzo

DUTTON, ALLISON

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Date: 10/17/2001 at 10:49:04

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF OLIVE TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879)
LORENZO D. DUTTON, farmer, Sec. 1; P. 0. De Witt; owns 340 acres of land, valued at $30 per acre; is a brother of Leroy Dutton; was born June 28, 1818, in Chenango Co., N. Y.; in January, 1837, went to Potter Co., Penn., and engaged in
lumbering during the winter; in the spring came, with an uncle, to Madison, Ind. ; engaged in the employ of his uncle, who was in the mercantile business' managed store for him in New Castle,
Ky., one year; in the spring of 1841, came to this county; in the spring of 1850, Went by overland route to California, in company with his brother Jerome and R. S. Dickinson and wife; in the fall of 1854, returned to this county. On
the 6th of December, 1856, married Miss Sarah H. Allison; she was born in 1838, in Rockingham Co., Va.; have nine children living—Charles A., Viola M., Orsini, Nancy P., Martha J.. Lorenzo D., Elva B., Orpha M. and Blanche I. Mr. D. has served as Justice of the Peace and County Assessor one year, and Township Assessor several years. Religion, Liberal; Greenbacker.