Bio of CHUTE, Richard Henry (b.1843), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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RICHARD HENRY CHUTE - Vol II, pg 786-787
Richard H. Chute, an honored veteran of the Civil war and one of the substantial
business men of Minneapolis, has devoted his life to the lumber industry, and
his operations in this field have been rewarded by a gratifying measure of
success. He was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, March 14, 1843, a son of the Rev.
Ariel P. and Sarah M. W. (Chandler) Chute, the former a native of Byfield, that
state, and the latter of New Gloucester, Maine. The father was widely known
throughout New England as a minister of the Congregational church. His death
occurred in Massachusetts in 1887. He was a son of Richard Chute, who devoted
his attention to manufacturing interests and died at St. Louis, Missouri, while
on a business trip to that city.
Richard H. Chute obtained a public school education and in August, 1862, when
nineteen years of age, he enlisted for service in the Civil war, becoming a
member of Company C, Thirty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He was later
transferred to the Fifty-ninth Massachusetts Veterans, with which he served
until the close of the war, and was repeatedly promoted, being mustered out with
the rank of captain. He fought in many of the most notable engagements of the
war and participated in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam and
Predericksburg. He was sent with his command to Kentucky and also took part in
the siege of Vicksburg, returning to Virginia to be with Grant during his
campaign in the Wilderness. At North Anna river he was taken prisoner and for
eight and a half months was confined in Libby prison and at Macon and Savannah,
Georgia, and Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina.
After the restoration of peace Mr. Chute went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he
was connected with the lumber trade from 1865 until 1872, and in the latter year
removed to Louisiana, that state, where he had charge of a lumberyard for three
years. In 1875 he was sent by the owners of the business to Eau Claire,
Wisconsin, and about 1887 was made manager of their mills. Six years later he
became associated with the Mississippi & Rum River Boom Company, which he has
since represented in a managerial capacity, and he also became secretary and
treasurer of the St. Paul Boom Company, which ceased operations in 1914. He is
treasurer and active manager of the Mississippi & Rum River Boom Company, which
handles the logs on their way to the mills, and likewise serves as vice
president of the Northland Pine Company, both of which profit by his executive
ability and broad practical experience. For thirty years he has been connected
with the lumber industry in this city and there is no phase of the business with
which he is not thoroughly familiar.
On the 6th of November, 1867, Mr. Chute was married to Miss Susan R. Nelson of
Georgetown, Massachusetts, and to their union were born five children, three of
whom survive, namely: Arthur L., a surgeon of Boston, Massachusetts; Robert W.,
a teller in the Federal Reserve National Bank; and Rebecca.
Mr. Chute is a republican in his political views, standing for principle and
good government rather than for the blind following of party leaders, and
loyally supporting those measures and movements which are projected for the
advancement and upbuilding of his city. He attends the Lowry Hill Congregational
church and is connected with the Grand Army of the Republic, having membership
with Eagle Post of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Throughout his career he has been a
persistent, resolute and energetic worker and notwithstanding the privations,
hardships and suffering which he endured while in military service, he is still
an active factor in the world's work, although seventy-nine years of age. His
has been an upright, honorable and useful life, guided by high ideals and
characterized by the successful accomplishment of valuable results.