Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Clute, John Howard 1824 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

JOHN HOWARD CLUTE of Alleghany was born January 11, 1824, in Henderson,
Jefferson county, New York. In the fall of 1843 he started out for himself as a
cook on a lake vessel, at seven dollars a month, becoming an ordinary seaman in
1844. In the fall of 1847 be became master of the schooner St. Clair, following
the lakes as master of a vessel running from East Buffalo to Chicago, until
1858. On the first of June, 1859, he left New York for California, reaching San
Francisco July 1, 1859. On the eighteenth he came to Alleghany, and worked for
F. W. Clute & Brother until 1866, after which he took charge of an engine at the
Union mine in Wet ravine, one mile from Alleghany. Mr. Clute became a partner of
John T. West, June 1, 1866, in the saloon business at Alleghany, the firm of
West & Clute being still in existence. Mr. Clute is also interested in mining.
He was married June 11, 1850; and again, on the tenth of April, 1856, was united
in marriage to Miss C. H. Carter, his first wife having died December 24, 1854.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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