JUTTING, GEORGE

JUTTING, ALBERS, HIPPEN

Posted By: Jean Kramer (email)
Date: 2/27/2004 at 17:14:30

Biography reproduced from page 255 of Volume II of the History of Kossuth County written by Benjamin F. Reed and published in 1913:

George Jutting is one of the efficient and highly successful young agriculturists of Lincoln township, where he is engaged in general farming and stock-raising. He was born in Grundy county, Iowa, on the 15th of February, 1889, and is a son of Uffe and Fanny (Jutting) Jutting, natives of Germany. The father emigrated to the United States with his parents when a babe a year old. The family located in Grundy county, and there he was reared to manhood and educated, continuing to make it his place of residence until 1894, when he removed to Kossuth county with his wife and children. During the first two years of his residence here he cultivated a rented farm, a mile south of the present Jutting homestead, in German township. At the expiration of that time he purchased a tract of uncultivated land on section 25, Lincoln township, and diligently applied himself to its improvements during the remainder of his life. He was thrifty and enterprising and at the time of his death held title to two hundred and forty acres of excellent land, which he had acquired through his individual effort, as he had started out in life with no other capital than an inexhaustible supply of energy and the determination to succeed. He passed away in 1905 and was laid to rest in the cemetery at Buffalo Center. He was a member of the German Reformed church, as is also his widow, and assisted in building this house of worship in Lincoln township. His political allegiance he gave to the republican party. The mother, who was a native of the same place as the father, was reared in the old country, coming to the United States when a young woman of twenty-two years with her parents, who located in Grundy county. She is still living and continues to make her home on the farm. She has been well provided for financially and besides her realty interests holds stock in the Independent Harvester Company of Plano, Illinois; and the McGuire Lumber Company and Cooperative Elevator Company of Buffalo Center. She is also interested in the Buffalo Center Tile Company. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Jutting number eight: Wessel, who married Jessie Albers and is engaged in farming two miles west of the Jutting homestead; Anna, the wife of Lambert Hippen, who is engaged in farming three miles east of the Jutting homestead; George, our subject; and Maggie, Hillie, Lena, Harmie and Johanna, all of whom are living at home.

The first five years in the life of George Jutting were passed in the county of his nativity. His education was obtained in the common schools, and he early began to assist with the work of the farm. He has always lived at home and is now engaged in the cultivation of four hundred acres of land, which is largely planted to such cereals as are best adapted to the feeding of stock. In connection with general agricultural pursuits he is raising thoroughbred Duroc-Jersey hogs, and he annually prepares large quantities of stock for the market. He is a young man of earnest purpose and diligent habits and is meeting with excellent success in his undertakings.

Mr. Jutting belongs to the German Reformed church, as do the other members of the family, and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. He is very much interested in stock-raising and maintains relations with other breeders through the medium of his membership in the National Duroc-Jersey Association. He is held in high esteem throughout the community where he has passed the greater part of his lie, as he is a young man of exemplary habits, unquestionable integrity and honorable business methods.