SHUTE, I. E., Lawrence County, OH., then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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I. E. SHUTE, M. D.  SHULETON.--Dr. I. E. Shute is a native of Lawrence
county, Ohio, born in November, 1850.  His parents, Captain J. G. Shute
and Sarah Smith, were both natives of the same county.  They were reared
and married here, and became the parents of four children, our subject
being the eldest.  J. G. Shute was a steamboat captain, and was killed
in the explosion of the "David White," in 1867, at Greenville.  His wife
died, in 1854, at her home in Lawrence county, Ohio.

Dr. Shute had good educational facilities as a boy, and at the age of
eighteen years he engaged in the drug business at Ashland, Kentucky, in
partnership with Dr. J. W. Martin, in which business he continued for
about two years, when he sold his interest in the store and removed to
Louisville, Kentucky.  He studied medicine in Louisville, at the same
time practising [sic] in the Chanty Hospital there.  Here he remained
until 1873, in which year he graduated.  He located in Boyd county,
Kentucky, and practised medicine for two years, when he removed to his
old home in Lawrence county, Ohio, practising his profession there
during the year 1876, when he removed to New Orleans, and bought an
interest in the "Col. A. P. Kouns," of which he was clerk for two years. 
The "Kouns" sunk in 1878, thirty miles below Alexandria, on Red River. 
After this unfortunate event he again resumed the practice of his
profession, at the same time operating a plantation near Opelousas.  In
1883 he sold his plantation and returned to Ashland, Boyd county,
Kentucky, where he bought a home and practised his profession for about
twelve months, when he sold his property there.  In the spring of 1884
he again returned to St. Landry parish, Louisiana, locating seven miles
south of Opelousas, where he now resides and practises medicine.  In
connection with his professional duties, he has an interest in a
mercantile business conducted on his premises by C. V. Dejan.  The
doctor was married during his travels in Lawrence county, Ohio, in 1874,
to Georgia Kouns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Captain I. H. Kouns.  They
have had born to them four children:  James I.,  Frank C.,  Irene E.,
and  Mattie K.  After his extended travels, the doctor gives it as his
opinion that Louisiana is the garden spot of the world, and is satisfied
to make it his home.  He has succeeded in building up a remunerative
practice, and stands high in the medical profession of St. Landry
parish.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
pp. 77-78.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The
Gulf Publishing Company.