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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  DANIEL W. CHUTE, retired farmer and merchant of Worthington, is one of the

pioneer settlers of Nobles county, having come during colony days and having

made his home here thirty-six years.



  Mr. Chute is of English descent, both his grandfathers, Daniel Chute and

Pharaoh Randall, having been born in England and having come with a colony to

Nova Scotia in an early day. The parents of our subject were Daniel and Mary

(Randall) Chute, both natives of Nova Scotia. The father was born in 1807 and

died in Nevada in 1873. The mother was born in 1816 and died in 1906.



  Daniel Chute, of this sketch, was born in Mount Clemens, Mich., in 1851. On

Dec. 1, 1854, the family moved from Michigan to Eyota, Olmsted county, Minn.,

and the North Star state has been the home of our subject ever since. Southern

Minnesota was very thinly settled at the time of the arrival of the Chute

family, and they suffered all the hardships incident to pioneer life. The head

of the family took a preemption claim, and the family home was there for about

six years. The next location was Albert Lea, near which city Mr. Chute, Sr.,

became the owner of over a section of farming land. Our subject made his home

there until 1872, securing an education in the public and high school of Albert

Lea and engaging in farming. He secured a start in life there, and when he

arrived in Worthington on September 18, 1872, had about three thousand dollars.



  Two days after his arrival Mr. Chute filed on the southeast quarter of section

18, Summit Lake township, as a tree claim and the south half of the northeast

quarter of the same section as a homestead—property which he still owns. During

the winter of 1872-73 he returned to his old home in Albert Lea, completed his

education, and in the spring returned to his claims. He engaged in farming and

stockraising there for many years. During the early days he had many lips and

downs, at one time losing all his possessions except his tree claim and

homestead (which were practically valueless at the time) and a few cattle. He

lost seven crops by grasshoppers and five by hail in the days when the country

was new. By fortunate real estate speculations Mr. Chute has prospered, and is

today rated as being worth over $50,000. In addition to his Summit Lake township

farm, he owns the southwest quarter of section two, Bloom township, about,

$20,000 worth of Worthington city property and $8,000 worth of Wilmont city

property.



  In 1895 Mr. Chute retired from active farm work and moved to Worthington. In

that city for three or four years he engaged in the hotel, grocery and meat

business. He returned to his farm again in recent years, but during the present

year retired from active work and is again a resident of Worthington. During his

residence in Summit Lake township Mr. Chute served as clerk of the school

district in which he resided, and was road overseer about ten years. 



  Mr. Chute was united in marriage at Warsaw, Ill., on Oct. 3, 1875, to Emma

Howard, a native of Wisconsin and a daughter of William A. and Sarah (Kieser)

Howard. They have no children.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908





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