OBIT:  CHUTE, Daniel M.; 1910; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 18 Feb 1910
Volume 44, Number 7


Daniel M. Chute Dead 
Well Known Ebensburger Succumbs to General Debility

Ebensburg lost another one of its old citizens in the death of Daniel M. Chute, which occurred at his 
home on High Street Sunday.  Mr. Chute was about 78 years of age and was a well known wagon 
maker.

Mr. Chute was a well known carriage builder and was born in Bollster's Mills, Maine, July 11th, 1832, 
and is the last of a family of nine children.  At the age of 17 he apprenticed himself to learn the 
carriage building trade with C. P. Kimball, a famous carriage builder of his day, and had the honor of 
doing work on the famous one-horse chaise built for President Pierce and now on exhibition in 
Chicago.  He then went to Portland, Me., and completed his apprenticeship under J. M. Kimball, 
remaining there for five years.  While there he was married to Mary Elizabeth Atkins of New 
Gloucester, Me.  To this union were born seven children, two of whom died in infancy.  In 1857 he 
moved to Chest Springs, Pa., where he was in business with F. M. Pike of Bridgeton, Me., for seven 
years.  He then went to Greensburg, where he remained for six years with C. H. Stark, coming from 
there to Ebensburg, where he entered upon carriage construction of a high order, remaining here 
until his death, a period of 40 years.

Besides his wife he is survived by the following children:  Etta, wife of Harry Mills of Hays City, Kan.; 
William of Ebensburg; Carrie, wife of Herman Apel of Ebensburg; Mrs. Sadie Kerr and Adelbert, of 
Pittsburg.  The deceased was a member of the Ebensburg Congregational Church. The Rev. H. H. 
Guernsey, pastor of the Congregational Church, had charge of the funeral services at 1:30 o'clock 
Tuesday afternoon.  Interment was in Lloyd Cemetery.