Charles R. Utley

UTLEY, SCOTT, ROSS

Posted By: S. Ferrall (email)
Date: 7/16/2005 at 00:14:57

Charles R. Utley (1907) is a Magnolia township farmer. He was born on the ninth of January, 1883, in Delaware county, Iowa, and is the son of Charles L. and Margaret Elizabeth (Scott) Utley, both of whom are still living.

Charles Utley lived in Delaware county until attaining the age of fourteen. Then he accompanied his parents to a new home in Adrian, Minnesota. He early set up as a farmer, and up to the time of his arrival in Rock county in the year 1907, he conducted several different farms in the vicinity of Adrian. The year preceding his arrival in Magnolia township, his home was in Westside township, Nobles county. He now lives on the southwest quarter of section 5 and farms 200 acres.

Mr. Utley was married in Adrian on October 19, 1905, to Carrie Ross, whose birthplace is in Wisconsin. They are the parents of two children, Inis, born March 27, 1907, and Theodore, born November 7, 1908. Mr. Utley holds membership in the lodge of the M.W.A. at Luverne.

-source: An illustrated history of the counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota
Luverne, Minn.; Northern History Pub. Co.; 1911; pg. 618
-transcribed for Delaware co. IAGenWeb by Sharyl Ferrall (not related to the subject)