Nowata Co., Oklahoma - Bio for Lolo Chouteau
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MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA:
Including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee,
Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig,
and Ottawa. Vol. II.

by John D. Benedict

1922
The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago 
Page 156

LOLO CHOUTEAU

Lolo Chouteau, who has been successfully identified with the
agricultural and stock raising interests of Nowata county for many
years, is now residing on his well improved farm of two hundred and
thirty acres, two and one quarter miles east of Lenapah. A native
of Kansas, he was born in Johnson county on the 9th of November, 1849,
a son of Frederick and Matilda Chouteau. The Chouteau family was
founded in America by Rene Auguste Chouteau, who came from France in
1718 and settled in New Orleans. His son, Rene Auguste Chouteau, Jr.,
was one of the founders of St. Louis. Frederick Chouteau was born
there, a son of Pierre Chouteau. He removed to Kansas, where he
engaged in farming with substantial success. His wife was of Shawnee
extraction and to them were born three sons, who are still living;
Lolo, whose name initiates this review; Fred, who is an artist living
in Kansas City; and Peter, a resident of Oakland, California. The
mother died when Lolo was an infant. 

In the acquirement of an education, Lolo Chouteau attended the common
schools of Johnson county, Kansas, until he was eighteen years of age.
At that time, putting his textbooks aside, he engaged in farming with
his father and remained active in that connection until 1871. In that
year, he determined to start out into life on his own account, with
the result that he came to Indian Territory and located east of
Chetopa, Labette county, Kansas. He resided there but a short time,
however, and then removed to within a mile and a half of his present
home. There he engaged in farming for ten years and soon after his
marriage moved to his present place of two hundred and thirty acres,
two and one quarter miles east of Lenapah. Mr. Chouteau not only
raises wheat, corn and alfalfa, but sheep, cattle and horses, and he
likewise has a good family orchard of mixed fruits. Mr. Chouteau has
also gained distinction as an apiarist. His farm is fine bottom land
on the Verdigris river and has been brought to its present state of
high cultivation through the untiring efforts of its present owner.
The farm boasts of a modern two-story dwelling and fine outbuildings
and is one of the show places of the surrounding community. 

In 1885 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Chouteau and Miss Ada
Dodge, a daughter of Albro Dodge of Nova Scotia. To their union four
children have been born: Charles, thirty-five years of age, who
married Mattie Cloud and has four children, Woodrow, Winona, Jesse
and Frank; Mary F., now the wife of Allen Webster and the mother of
two children, Francis and Irene; Catherine M., who is a bookkeeper,
music teacher and school teacher; and Arthur D., who is assisting his
father in the cultivation of the home farm. 

The religious faith of the family is that of the Christian church and
fraternally Mr. Chouteau is identified with the Masons and the
Woodmen of the World. Since attaining his majority he has given his
support to the democratic party, having firm belief in its principles
as factors in good government. Mr. Chouteau is alive to the duties
and responsibilities as well as the privileges of citizenship, and his
aid may always be counted upon in the furtherance of any movement for
the development and improvement of the general welfare. 

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