Nutting, Frank O.

NUTTING

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Date: 6/29/2021 at 14:15:22

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.456

FRANK O. NUTTING
F. 0. Nutting, the well known proprietor of the Advance Stock farm, owns and operates seven hundred fifty-seven and a half acres of land mainly on sections 16, 21 and 22, Otter Township, conveniently located seven miles southeast of Indianola. Here he is extensively engaged in business as a breeder of Percheron horses and shorthorn cattle and has met with remarkable success.
A native of Massachusetts, Mr. Nutting was born in Franklin County, Sep­tember 21, 1849, and is a son of D. H. Nutting, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. He was only five years of age when the family came to Warren County, Iowa, and here he was reared and educated, attending first the com­mon schools, while later he spent one year at Simpson College. His first term there was in the original building, known as the Blue Bird, and he at­tended the first term taught in the new building.
Throughout his active business life Mr. Nutting has followed farming and stock-raising, having gained an excellent knowledge of the business under the able direction of his father during his boyhood and youth. After reach­ing man's estate he was in partnership with his father for twenty-five years but since that time he has been alone in business. He has made practically all of the improvements upon his place, which is today one of the best equipped stock farms in the state of Iowa, the comfortable residence, barns and other outbuildings having all been erected since 1901. For the past twenty years he has made a specialty of breeding Percheron horses and now owns the largest herd in the county, having twenty-two blooded Percheron and French draft horses, either registered or eligible to registry. These include Victori­eux, Gladiator I, Black Dandy, Dewey's Image, Rex 41887, and Gladiator's Pride 43873.
On the 22d of December, 1874, Mr. Nutting was married in this county to Miss Maggie J. Johnston, who was born in Mahoning County, Ohio, July 19, 1845, and remained a resident of that state until 1870, when she came to this county, where her brother, John H. Johnston, was living. Here she was engaged in teaching school for six terms prior to her marriage. Her parents, Thomas and Martha (Riddle) Johnston, were lifelong residents of Ohio and of Irish descent. Her mother died in Mahoning County, that state, in 1850, at the age of thirty-five years, and her father in Trumbull County in 1884, at the age of seventy-two. Mrs. Nutting had four brothers: Andrew, a resident of Indiana; John, who died in Wichita, Kansas, in February, 1906; Eli, still a resident of Wichita; and Scott, a resident of Idaho. Mr. and Mrs. Nutting have two children living, while David H., died at the age of four months. Mabel is the wife of W. H. Boyd, a farmer living near Summerset, Iowa. Fred is now in partnership with his father under the firm name of F. O. Nutting & Son and is serving as township clerk of Otter Township. He wedded Miss Mary Boyd and has one daughter, Mary, born November 12, 1906.
Mr. Nutting is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen at Indianola, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Milo, of which he is now acting as trustee. In business affairs he is energetic, prompt and notably reliable and he has the respect and confidence of all with whom he comes in contact either in his business or social relations.