Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....McNutt, J. M. 1844 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  J. M. McNUTT, lumber dealer, Hutsonville, Ill., is a native of Harrison
County, Ohio, and a son of Joseph and Nancy (Yates) McNutt. Joseph McNutt was
born in York County, Penn., July 13, 1798. He was brought to Harrison County,
Ohio, in 1808, where he remained until 1846, when he removed to Guernsey County,
Ohio, and there died July 21, 1870. He was a farmer. His father and grandfather
of our subject was James McNutt, a native of Ireland, who emigrated to America
just after the close of the Revolutionary war. The mother of our subject was
born in Berkeley County, Va., December 4, 1808, and died in Guernsey County,
Ohio, November 24, 1851. She was the mother of eight children, of whom our
subject was the fifth child. He was born January 18, 1844. At two years of age,
he was removed, to Guernsey County, Ohio, and there spent his early life
assisting in tilling the soil of his father's farm and receiving such an
education as the common schools afforded. In 1862, he entered the last
rebellion, serving in Company A, of the Seventy-eighth, Ohio Volunteers. He
served three years, was mustered out in June, 1865. From Stephenson's History we
take the following: "The men of Company A, never came out second best in
anything—in coolness, courage, discipline, facility and rapidity of military
movements and combinations, and every attainment, had few requests to make, no
faults to find; as good soldiers they could not be excelled. For reliability,
faithfulness in every duty, quiet submission to all orders, integrity, and
consistent Christian character, the company could not be surpassed." After the
war, Mr. McNutt engaged in raising sheep for two years. In the fall of 1866,
bought an interest in a saw mill, and in the spring of 1867 removed it to
Lawrence County, Ind., and subsequently to Owen County, Ind., in the fall of the
same year, where he engaged in the mill business until September, 1871, when he
entered the employ of Samuel McKeen, at Terre Haute, acting as yard man in the
lumber yard, and in 1875 his employer gave him exclusive control of a yard at
Hutsonville. In 1880, he bought out the interest of McKeen and is now running a
large and lucrative business under the firm name of J. M. McNutt & Co. In Owen
County, Ind., in 1873 he married Miss Lucy A. Agee, who died February 24, 1877,
leaving one child as the result of their union, viz., Willie T. In Hutsonville,
March 21, 1878, he married a second time Miss Sarah Hurst, who has borne him one
child, viz., Bruce O. Mr. McNutt is Junior Warden of the Masonic lodge of which
he is a member. Politically, is a Republican.

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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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