Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Dutton, Joseph April 27, 1843 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

JOSEPH DUTTON, Catholic Lay Missionary. Joseph (Ira Barnes) Dutton, Catholic 
lay missionary among lepers on the Island of Molokai continuously since July 
29, 1886, was born at Stowe, Vt., on April 27, 1843, and is the son of Ezra 
and Abigail (Barnes) Dutton, the family having removed to Janesville, Wis., in 
1847. He was educated by his mother at the Milton, Wis., Academy and by 
private study.
  He served through the Civil War, having enlisted as a private and on Feb. 
15, 1865, was commissioned a first lieutenant. On March 24 of the same year he 
was appointed regimental quartermaster. He was in government service for ten 
years following the war, principally in the adjustment of war claims.
  Desiring to spend the remainder of his life in some form of humanitarian 
work, and having heard of the work which the Catholic mission was carrying on 
among the lepers at Molokai, Dutton came to Honolulu from San Francisco on 
July 22, 1886, and went immediately to Molokai, where he offered his services 
to Father Damien Deveuster, known as the “Martyr of Molokai,” who was then in 
charge of the work among the lepers. He has not left the settlement since.
  In 1889 he administered the estate of Father Damien, and later became 
builder and superintendent of the Baldwin Home for orphan boys and helpless 
cases at Kalawao, two miles from the main settlement at Kalaupapa. In July, 
1908, because of his services as a soldier and humanitarian, he was especially 
honored when Admiral Charles S. Sperry, in command of the Atlantic Fleet on 
its tour of the world, paraded, with colors flying, before the leper 
settlement.
  Dutton is a member of the U. S. Catholic Historical Society, American 
Federation of Catholic Societies, American Social Hygiene Association, 
National Economic League, National Association for Constitutional Government, 
Academy of Political Science, American Asiatic Association and the G. A. R. He 
was the author of an article entitled “Molokai” in Volume X of the Catholic 
Encyclopedia.


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