Biographical Sketch of Isaac L DUTTON (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila- delphia, PA, 1893, pp. 522-3. "ISAAC L. DUTTON, one of the representative farmers of West Goshen town- ship, was born at Middletown, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1838. His occupation has always been that of farming, which he continued to follow in West Brandywine township until 1867, when he removed to West Goshen, where he has since resided on the Wilmington and West Chester turnpike. "Isaac L. Dutton is a son of Joseph and Sarah (Thatcher) Dutton. Joseph Dutton was born August 4, 1810, in Delaware county. He was reared and educated in Delaware county, and moved to Westtown township, this county, where he continued to reside several years, subsequently removing to East Goshen township, where he held several local offices, and was a member of the Society of Friends or Quakers. Later he removed to West Chester, where he died on November 9, 1888. His wife, Sarah Thatcher, was a daugh- ter of William Thatcher, a native of Delaware county. He died in Aston township, Delaware county, August 8, 1812. Mrs. Sarah (Thatcher) Dutton is still living. To the marriage of Joseph and Sarah (Thatcher) Dutton were born eleven children: William, Isaac L., Henry S., Beulah T., Rebecca, Edward, Lydia, Ann, Sallie, Richard, and Emma (dead). "Isaac L. Dutton was married to Caroline Hickman, daughter of Thomas and Ruth H. (Rodabaugh) Hickman, of Delaware county, and had seven children: Joseph Hickman Dutton, born December 12, 1863, is now engaged in farming in Elk township; Howard, born August 25, 1866, was a promising young man, attended the Normal school at West Chester, after which he was graduated from the Pierce Business college, Philadelphia, in the class of 1884, and at the age of eighteen he accepted a position as clerk of a meat-packing establishment at Philadelphia, afterward he took the position of auditor with John Wannamaker, which he held until 1886, when he went to Chicago and became foreman in the store of C. M. Lemmington & Co., having under his supervision many clerks, and died in Chicago of typhoid fever, June 29, 1890; Arthur Pratt, living at home, was born February 7, 1870; Harry Sharpless, born September 22, 1872; Carrie Anita, born August 12, 1875; Isaac Lowell, born June 9, 1878; and Bertha May, born January 24, 1881. "Thomas Dutton (great-grandfather) married Hannah Routh, and had a family of children, among whom was Richard Dutton (grandfather), who married Margaret Larkin. Richard Dutton was a whig and republican in politics."