is the wife of E. T. Raimer, who was born in this county in November, 1868, and has always resided within its borders. In May, 1905, he wedded Sarah Appelgate who since 1855 has resided upon a farm where they now made their home on section 18, Nevada township. She came to this county with her parents when ten years of age. Lorenzo D., the next of the family, is a resident of Nevada. Franklin M. wedded Miss Mary Lewis in 1876. She was born in Connecticut in February, 1856, and when four years of age went to Illinois with her parents. Her mother died when she was six years of age and her father afterward married again, coming with his family to this county when Mrs. Appelgate was nine years of age. Unto F. M. Appelgate and his wife have been born three children: Herbert; Bernice, the wife of Lewis Appelgate, of Richmond township; and Verne, the wife of Guy Atkinson, living near McCallsburg. Mary, the sixth member of the family of Lewis Appelgate, Sr., is the wife of John Densmore, 0f Nevada. Olive is the wife of Albert Hemstead, of Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Viola Gooden is deceased; McClellan, the youngest of the family is living in Grant township.
The name of Appelgate has been associated with the history of this county for more than fifty-five years, and the members of the family have taken active and helpful part in the work of general improvement and progress, so that they deserve prominent mention upon the pages of this volume.
JAY G. Dutton.
Jay G. Dutton, president of the Farmers Bank of Nevada, throughout the last period of his residence in this city, covering thirteen years, has long been accorded a prominent position in business and financial circles. His record is another proof of the fact that success is not the result of genius as held by some, but is rather the outcome of clear judgment, experience and close application.
He was born in Benton county, Iowa, August 31, 1866, and in 1870 was brought to Nevada by his parents, O. B. and Elizabeth A. (Beavers) Dutton, the former a native of New York and the latter of New Jersey. The father became a resident of Chicago in 1835, before the incorporation of the city, and was closely identified with its early development. The year 1855 witnessed his arrival in Iowa and in Delaware county, this state, he was married to Miss Elizabeth A. Beavers. Subsequently he removed to Norway, Benton county, and in 1870 came to Nevada. In that year Mr. Dutton established the first bank of Story county and conducted business under the firm style of O. B. Dutton & Son, bankers, the junior partner being O. E. Dutton, now living in Los Angeles, California. For eleven years he continued in the banking business but in 1881 sold out and re-