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Albert
J. Nutt This
honored agriculturist is a resident of Richland Township, Jasper County, where
he resides on a well-regulated farm. He is a native of Delaware County, Ohio,
the date of his birth being February 5, 1855. His father, Walker L., came to
Iowa in l856, settling in Marion County, on one hundred and twenty acres of wild
land. He died on this place when
fifty-seven years old. His father
was a native of Scotland. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Mary
Thompson and is a native of New Jersey; she lives in this county with her son,
Warren C. Receiving
but a meager education in the district schools, our subject was early compelled
to assist on the farm. When
old enough to start out on his own account, he located on a farm in Marion
County, but in the spring of 1881 removed to this county, locating in Palo Alto
Township on a rented farm. Four years later he was enabled to buy his present
property, which consisted of eighty acres, but not being satisfied with that
small amount bought as he could afford, and now has in his possession two
hundred acres of as fine land as is to be found in the county. Timber is in
abundance on the place, and he is engaged in mixed farming, being very
prosperous in every way. The
marriage of Albert Nutt and Anna Doyle was blessed by the birth of one child,
Joseph W. This wife died when only twenty-one years old. Two years later our
subject was married to Mary E. Boat, a native of Illinois, and a daughter of Ira
and Margaret Boat, natives of Holland and Pennsylvania respectively.
Mr. and Mrs. Boat still live in this county on a farm. In
politics our subject is a stanch Republican. Three years ago be was elected to
the office of Trustee of his township, and has filled other positions. He and
his good wife are members and liberal supporters of the Methodist. Episcopal
Church. The Masonic order claims him as one of its members, ho belonging to
Lebanon Lodge No. 227 at Lynnville. He
is an intelligent and kindly Christian man and has won many warm friends. Portrait and Biographical Record, Jasper, Marshall and Grundy Counties, IA, Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, 1894, p. 221. |
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