CHAS. W. DUTCHER
Charles W. Dutcher came to Cass county in 1870, and located in Noble township, where he purchased land on section 32. He improved a farm and built a nice comfortable house, and there remained about twelve years. He then sold his farm and bought in Edna township, where he now resides. He is a native of Cook county, Illinois, and was born on the 10th of April, 1840. His parents were early settlers of that county, and he there grew to manhood. When seventeen years of age he learned the carpenter trade, and worked in Chicago about four years, when he went to Kansas, and located in what is now Cherokee county, and was there engaged at working at his trade until the breaking out of the war, when he enlisted, and acted as scout for the Union army until August, 1862, when he re-enlisted in company D, Ninth Kansas Cavalry, and served until the close of the war. He participated in the engagements at Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove, Kane Hill, and several skirmishes. After his discharge he settled in Bureau county, Illinois, and there made his home until 1870, when he came to Cass county. Mr. Dutcher was united in marriage in 1861, to Ruth A. Taylor, a native of Michigan. They have been blessed with eight children--Eva A., Clarissa, Mary, Minnie, Charles J., Jennie A., Jessie and John T.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 754-755.
