Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Lutes, Howard B. 1850 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  HOWARD B. LUTES, clothing merchant, Robinson, is a native of Indiana, and was
born in Jacksonboro, December 23, 1850, and at the age of fifteen he entered the
State University at Bloomington, remaining there three years. He took a
commercial course in Bryant & Stratton's College at Louisville, Ky., from which
he graduated. He then engaged in teaching school, and followed it in Indiana and
Illinois. For one year he was engaged in the agricultural implement business,
after which he opened a clothing house in Robinson, in which business he is
still engaged. He has a large and lucrative trade and carries a heavy stock in
his line, selling annually from $15,000 to $20,000 worth of goods. Mr. Lutes was
married in 3874 to Miss Flora B. Harness. She died in 1876, leaving two
children, one of whom, Maud, is still living. He was married a second time in
1881, to Miss Rosa Iddings.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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