JOHN MUTTER - Biography

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This biography appears on page 672 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


JOHN MUTTER, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Union Grove; born in Dalkeith, near
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1832; came to Quebec, Canada, in 1835, and remained
till 1852 then went to Clinton Co., N. Y.; thence to West Brookfield,
Mass.; returned to Canada, and worked five years in the old Government
Mill at Yamashiesh Parish, wbere he learned his trade of miller; in
1856, he went to Milwaukee and ran the Kilburn Mill three years, and, in
1859, came to Racine Co., and was foreman of the Racine City Mills for
nine years; in 1868, he came to Dover and located here. He owns 200
acres of land in Dover and eighty acres in Paris, Kenosha Co.; he has
two large barns for stock and hay, which cost $2,500; one is 36x66 feet,
the other 20x6O feet; the house he now lives in was on the farm when he
bought it, and stood alone in the timber; but he intends building a
handsorne brick residence, to cost about $1,500, this summer. He
married, in Racine, July, 1860, Mary Tait, a resident of Racine they
have six children; Mary, born March 11, 1861 ; William, Nov. 3, 1863;
John Gilbert, Jan. 19, 1865; James W., Aug. 1, 1868 Robert, Dec. 20,
1873; Jane Isabella, April 18, 187S. They attend the United Presbyterian
Church. William Mutter, father of John Mutter, came to Dover in 1868,
and on the 30th of June, 1870, died very suddenly; he was apparently in
good health that morning, and was out on the farm cutting weeds; had
just hung up the scythe, and had the rake in his hand to rake them up,
and sat down on the ground between two stones, as if to rest, and died
in that position, where he was found immediately after by his
daughter-in-law, Mrs. John Mutter. His wife, nee Mary Denholm, of
Heddington, Scotland, was residing in Dover at the time of her husband's
death, and is now living in Union Grove.