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History of Floyd County, Iowa
Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co.,
1882.
LaCrosse, WI : Brookhaven Press, 2000 [Reprint]
Submitted by Dick
Barton
Newman Dutcher, carpenter and joiner, and farmer,
postoffice Charles City; is a son of Wherton and Eleanor (Wheeler)
Dutcher, natives of New York, where they died. Newman was born May
3, 1813, and was educated in New York, where he learned his trade and
worked until he came to Ohio in 1846; here he farmed and worked at his
trade nine years; then sold out and located in Green County, Wis.,
remaining there some three years; then he came to Iowa in 1855, and
located on his present farm of 100 acres on sections 33 and 32, Niles
Township. In 1833, he married Jane Morrison; there were three
children by this union, one living - Frances, wife of James Pitcher, of
Niles Township.
Frederick, born Nov. 15, 1834; in
1862 he enlisted in the Twenty-seventh Iowa Infantry, Captain Slocum; he
was taken sick and was in the hospital eight months, and died in
December, 1863. Wherton, born Jan 11, 1840, and enlisted
May, 1861, in the Third Iowa Infantry; he served two years, two months,
participating in the battles of Missouri and seige of Vicksburg and many
other hard-fought battles; he was killed at the second taking of
Jackson, Mississippi, July 12, 1863. Mrs. Dutcher died Dec. 19,
1841. Mr. Dutcher married in 1842, Mary E. Stoter; she was born in
Connecticut. There were six children by this union, four living -
Jane Ann, born 1849, wife of Levi Knapp, of Ringgold County, Ia.; Abby,
born 1852, wife of John Ellis, of Niles Township; Newman, born in
November, 1855; Albert, born 1845; he enlisted in the Twelfth Iowa and
was discharged for disability. On regaining his health, he re-enlisted
in the Fourteenth Wisconsin Battery, and was permanently disabled and is
now in the Soldier's Home at Dayton, Ohio. Mary E. Dutcher died
Sept. 8, 1856. In 1857 Mr. Dutcher married Mary L., daughter of
John and Charlotte (Tyler) Snyder, natives of Pennsylvania and New York
respectively. She was born in New York, Aug. 28, 1836. This
union has been blessed with nine children, eight living - Ida C., born
Oct. 3, 1858; John W., born Dec. 27, 2859; Eugene S., June
11, 1862; Nettie, Feb. 21, 1864; Mabel T., Aug. 29, 1866;
Luella (deceased), born in 1869; Charles K., born May 21, 1870;
Blanch Estelle, born May 21, 1875, and Arthur B., born Aug. 4,
1877. Mr. Dutcher and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church. Mr. Dutcher votes the Greenback ticket. He has held
several township offices, and has faithfully discharged his duty.
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