DUTTON, Leroy

DUTTON, PEARSALL, HELLER, BALDWIN, HOLCOMB, BROWN

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Date: 10/17/2001 at 10:50:56

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF OLIVE TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879)

LEROY DUTTON, farmer, Sec. 1; P. 0. DeWitt; owns 510 acres of land, valued at $40 per acre; son of Charles and Nancy (Pearsall) Dutton; was born April 21, 1816, in Chenenago Co., N. Y.; in the fall of 1837, came on a raft, with parents, from Potter Co., Penn., to Madison, Ind.; in December, 1838, the family came by river to Alton, Ill., he joining them two months later, and, in the spring of 1839, they all came up to Camanche, this county, came out and located in Olive Township, Mr. D. purchasing the claim of' part of his present farm. Married Miss Harriet Heller, of Scott Co., Dec. 31, 1843; she was born in Huron
Co., Ohio, and died in March, 1845. He again married Mrs. Flora Baldwin, whose maiden name was Holcomb, in March, 1847; she was born June 11, 1817, in Connecticut; her mother is living in the
family at the advanced age of 87. Mr. D. had one son by first wife and three children by second wife; all died in infancy; second wife had two children b/first husband—Richard C. and Olive, the latter deceased. Richard C. lives
with Mr. Dutton; he married Emily Brown in July, 1860, and has four children— Anna L., Harriet M., Richard L. and William B. Greenbacker; religion, Liberal.