William Carr Chute [55608]

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William Carr Chute and Rosannah (Rozanna) Mayberry Chute:

WEC: "After the opening of the Cumberland Canal, moved to Naples about 1832 or 1833."
"Frank A. Chute <gp560.htm>, a prominent citizen of Harrison, actively engaged in farming, was born in the adjoining town of Naples, Cumberland County, on February 25, 1827. His parents were William C. and Rozanna (Mayberry) Chute; and his paternal grandfather, Thomas Chute*, was one of the pioneer settlers of Windham.
William C. Chute was born in that town and continued to live there until his marriage, when he removed to Otisfield. He was engaged in farming in that place until December, 1826, going at that time to Naples, where the remaining years of his life were spend on a farm. His wife, formerly Rozanna Mayberry, was born in Windham. She died in December, 1831. They were the parents of eight children, of which a brief account follows: Mary <gp550.htm> married Calvin Brown, and both are now dead. Thomas <gp550.htm> married a Miss Wyer, of Harpswell, Me. (both deceased). Caroline S. <gp550.htm> first became the wife of Robert King. After his death she married Edward Kilmer <gp4500.htm>**; and, being a second time left a widow, she removed to Texas, where she married a Mr. Packing <gp4505.htm>***. Both have since died. James <gp555.htm> was twice married, his first wife being Ellen Mann, his second Jane Cole, who survives him and is now living in Naples, Me. Edward P. died at eleven years of age. Newell <gp555.htm> married Miss Mary Jane Chaplin; and they are living in Bridgton, Me. Frank A. Chute <gp560.htm> is a resident of Harrison, as above mentioned. William Chute <gp555.htm>, who married Miss Emily Steward is dead; and his widow resides at Gorham, Me.
Frank A. Chute, now the youngest living child of his father's family, received a good common-school education, and continued to reside with his parents until he was twenty-three years of age. At that time he went to work on the York & Cumberland Canal, where for the next few years he was employed during the summers; and during the winters he worked at different places in this county. He then went to the town of Naples and purchased a farm. After eight years spent in improving and conducting that property, he removed to Waterford, Me., where he followed farming for seven years. In partnership with his son, he then came to Harrison and bought the old Deacon Bray farm, containing about one hundred and sixty -five acres of well-improved land. Mr. Chute and his son here devote their attention to general farming, at which they are very successful.
On September 24, 1853, Mr. Chute was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth J. Hall. She was born in Bridgton, April 4, 1829. After her birth, her parents, Thomas and Mary (Riggs) Hall, removed to Westbrook, where they lived until their deaths. Mr. Hall was a farmer. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Chute; namely, Quincy M. and Cora B. Quincy M. Chute, born November 30, 1854, has already been referred to as in partnership with his father. He is well known throughout this county, having held a number of town offices. For a number of years he has served as Chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Harrison, and he is now the Representative from this district to the State legislature. He married Miss Melissa D. Lewis, of South Harrison, and they have four children, respectively named: Blanche A., Roland H., Walter D., and Philip A., all of whom are living at home. Cora B. Chute, born September 14, 1863, is the wife of John Witham, who is engaged in farming on a place near her father's.
In political views, Mr. Chute and his son are staunch Republicans; and true to the duties devolving upon them as citizens, they make it a point to be present at town meetings, in which public interests are the topic of discussion, or in which important questions are to be voted upon. Fraternally, Mr. Chute is a member of Mount Tyron Lodge, A.F. & A.M., of Waterford; and he and his son are members of Harrison lodge, No. 41, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Harrison Village. Mr. and Mrs. Chute are member of the Methodist Episcopal church, whose house of worship is but a short distance from their farm."
Source: Biographical Review: This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Cumberland County, Maine. Boston Review Publishing Company, Boston. 1896. Pages 588-189. Entry: Frank A. Chute.
Notes:
* This is incorrect. The Thomas Chute who was a pioneer settler in Windham was Franklin A. Chute's great-great grandfather.
** Her second husband is primarily known as Jonas Killmer. Their son is alternatively known as Jonas Edward or Edward Jonas Killmer.
***Caroline S. Chute's third husband's surname has been recorded as Patebin, Patchin and Patching. It is still open to further investigation.

Philip Conrad Chute and Pauline Marie Gilson Chute:

Correspondence, Philip Conrad Chute and George M. Chute, Jr.

June 11, 1957

Dear "Cousin" George:
I really admire you for taking the job of keeping the Chutes in line. However, if all are as slow as I was in replying, you really have a terrific task ahead.
I am ashamed to have put this matter off so often. One reason is that I have just got the Chute material, that my father collected, together under one roof. My mother who passed away August 14th had some, and the rest was in an old safe of my father's (I had thought it was lost). It was my thought that there might be something of the other branches, etc., that might interest you. Now that I have gone through it, I find it is mostly about the local line and not much about offshoots, even locally.
The enclosed list I made for my own use, mostly to keep track of what I did have in the box, but if there is anything on the enclosed copy that you could use or would wish to see, I will be glad to send it to you.
Alice Church <gp3585.htm>, 5717 Virginia Avenue, Hollywood, California, was evidently the real historian of this branch. I've never seen her, at least not since I was a child, but she has sent many things about her family to first my father and then to my mother and myself.
There are Chutes in Harrison, Norway, Casco, Sebago and Oxford, Maine (all close by), also Brewer and Augusta, Maine. I think I will ask each one I see to give me his ancestors back a few generations to see if I can tie the side branches of the descendants of Thomas Chute together.
Almost every year a Chute or someone related comes to the Homestead. I am always at a loss to know how they are related to us, and being usually busy, I fail to get the information about their families, i.e., a young man who I believe lives in Augusta, ME saw the sign and came in to see if I knew anything about his family. I think his middle name was Lionel and he believed that it was an old family name, but said the family had always been in Nova Scotia. I convinced him all Chutes were from the same original Lionel but it certainly would be nice if your work could be published.
Please let me know if there is anything I can do and I will try to be more prompt.
PS: The assistant to Pres., Colby College, Waterville, Maine, came by last year, I believe his name was Skillings. His first remark was that while a student in Ohio he had met and married a girl named Chute. A lady, a librarian from Massachusetts, dropped by last fall with so much information about literary Chutes that I can't remember any of it - even her name.
PPS: Pease visit us, I'll stay home to see you.

Philip C. Chute


February 9, 1957

Dear Cousin George:
Am enclosing some information from Robert Chute, Casco, Chute's Lumber Co. (saw mill, etc.)
If and when you get him tied into other Chutes, I'm sure he would like to hear from you. They (Rob & Leander) own some land behind the Homestead which I have offered to buy.
I have been surveying some of the local land holding in this area of Naples to determine our title, and I find many Chute names in registrar of deeds which I will try to fit into the local branch. Around 1850-70 there were several families in Naples instead of just us.
Best wishes,

Phil Chute


February 19, 1957

Dear George:
Thanks a lot for your letter and information. I do not have a copy of the Chute history, only portions copied from it, so I am often at a loss to connect some local branch. I probably have enough information if I took time to get it on one sheet.
The Early History of Naples as it is written up in the 1880 History of Cumberland County, and especially Naples History, unpublished, by L.G. Barton has many references to Chutes. Enclosed is a brief sketch Mr. Barton wrote in 1934 at the same time he wrote a lengthy article that was published in the Bridgton News. Next year, I hope to publish it in the town report so that it will be in the hands of more people.
Sincerely,

Phil

PS: I have several copies of the program so no need to return it. (Excerpt from History of Cumberland County, L.G. Barton (1880) handwritten on back of letter. See below:)


From History of Cumberland County, 1880:
"The post office was opened under the name of South Otisfield, June 21, 1828, with Abraham W. Chute <gp705.htm> postmaster. His first quarterly report was for the sum of 37 1/2 cents. Dr. J. Andrew Chute <gp65.htm>, a brother of the postmaster, opened a store at the west end of the bridge where a landing was built in 1831. He sold to his brother and William Winsor in 1834, and entered the missionary service among the Ottowa, Chippewa and Cherokee Indians, dying in that service while in Wisconsin, in 1838."
Enclosed:
Original Souvenir Program, Naples Centennial, 1834-1934, August 10 - 11 - 12, on Beautiful Long Lake at Naples, Maine.
"Naples became a town by act of the Legislature approved March 4, 1834. There were sixty-five petitioners from the older towns of which Naples was then a part: 26 from Otisfield, 14 from Harrison, 18 from Sebago, 5 from Raymond and 2 from Bridgton. The petition was based upon the great distance of the petitioners from the business and political centers of the respective towns.
Among the petitioners are the names of Jefferson Bray, Benjamin Goodridge, Enoch Gammon, John Patch, Hiram Leach, Daniel Brackett, Thomas J. Carter, Eben Choate, Samuel Warren, William C. Chute <gp550.htm>, John Lord, Thomas Edes, Jr., Josh Libby, Joseph Hall and William B. Winsor <gp3570.htm> from Otisfield; Elijah Varney <gp3565.htm>, Samuel Leach, William Proctor, Thomas Morton and William Jackson from Raymond; Benjamin Clark, Jeremiah B. King, Josiah Leavitt and John Davis from Sebago; Richard Bean, Nathaniel and Samuel York, Samuel Lord and Eli Whitney from Harrison. All these names are prominently identified to the present day with the history and affairs of the town."
"The first election was held April 1, 1834. John Chute <gp65.htm> was chosen moderator, Abraham W. Chute <gp705.htm>, clerk, Jefferson Bray, Samuel Leach and Benjamin Goodridge, selectmen and assessors; James Sanborn, treasurer; Thomas J. Carter and Thomas Chute <gp565.htm>, school committee; Thomas Perley, Town Agent."
(Cover Page)
On the General Centennial, Finance and Parade Committees: James C. Chute <gp6215.htm>.


June 11, 1957
"My father's full name was Philip Conrad Chute, born November 13, 1920 at home on the family farm (Chute Homestead) - we still had his cradle at the Homestead when I was young. His death date is October 27, 1990.
[Pauline Gilson Chute] is still alive and well and living in Denmark, Maine and working in Bridgton for a law office."
Kathleen Elizabeth Chute King via e-mail to Jacqueline Chute, 2004

Record Type: Chute Family History/Book
Title: A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources
Author: William Edward Chute
Published: Salem, Massachusetts, 1894
Comments: Copy originally owned by George Maynard Chute, nephew of William Edward Chute with his signature on the flyleaf; handwritten notes in margins; passed to George Maynard Chute, Jr. who published an updated addendum to this work in 1968; passed to George Maynard Chute, III; passed to Jacqueline Irene Chute.
Location: Privately held


Record Type: Book
Title: Biographical Review: This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Cumberland County, Maine.
Publisher: Biographical Review Publishing Company
Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Date: 1896
Individual 1: Frank A. Chute, pages 588-589, Chute Family Records/GP560-0
Individual 2: Albert F. Chute, page 627
Individual 3: Adelbert C. Chute, pages 229-230
GROUP NO: Chute Family Records/GP2265-8

Record Type: Centennial Events Program
Event: Naples (Maine) Centennial: 1834-1934
Event Dates: August 10 - 11 - 12, 1934
Location: Long Lake, Naples, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
Author: Llewellyn G. Barton (author of brief historical overview)
GROUP NO: Chute Family Records/GP6235-0 (Philip Conrad Chute)

William married on 10 Sep 1809 in Windham, Cumberland County, Maine, USA.