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Burnt to death in John Foster's home.
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Had over a dozen children.
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Son of Samuel Foster.
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4 children.
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Reverend Obed Chute and Mary Jane Cox Chute.
Notes on Reverend Obed Chute and Mary Jane Cox Chute:
WEC: "In 1852 was sent out by the Baptist Association of Nova Scotia as a missionary among the Acadian French
in the eastern part of the Province, which position he filled 6 years until failing health warned him to retire, and since
then only preached occasionally."
Source: William Edward Chute, 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, Salem, Massachusetts, 1894
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2 sons.
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3 children.
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"Conrad Baker was b. in Franklin Co., Pa., Feb. 12, 1817; educated at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg,
and then studied law in the office of Stevens & Snyder of that city, under Thaddeus Stevens and Judge Daniel M. Snyder. He
was admitted to the bar in 1839, and practiced law there two years. He emigrated to Indiana and settled in Evansville,
1841; represented Vanderburg Co. in the General Assembly, 1845, judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the counties of
Warwick and Vanderburg, 1852, and resigned 1854. In 1861 he was commissioned colonel of the 1st Cavalry, 28th regiment of
Indiana, Volunteers, and from August to April, 1863, commanded either his own regiment or a brigade in Missouri, Arkansas
or Mississippi. In April, 1863, he was called home to Indianapolis and appointed provost marshal general of Indiana, where
he superintended the volunteer recruiting as chief mustering officer, till August, 1864, when his term of service expired
and he was mustered out.
In 1865, Gov. Oliver P. Morton convened the General Assembly in special session, and right after delivering his message
went to Europe in quest of health, leaving Mr. Baker, the lieutenant governor in charge of the state.
In 1867, Gov. Morton was elected to the United States Senate, when Mr. Baker became governor and resided at Indianapolis.
In 1868 he was nominated by the Republican convention for governor and elected by a majority of 961, and at the close of
his term engaged again in the practice of law in the firm of Baker, Hord & Hendricks, and d. there Apr. 28, 1885, beloved
by all.His character as a lawyer, judge, colonel, general, lieutenant governor and governor, were as firm, kind, honest,
generous and merciful as any man could well be, as near perfect probably, as any man that ever lived in the United States.
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Attended Wabash College.
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"Lived much of his time in the West. He was brought up a farmer, educated in the common school, then in
Dummer academy, under Dr. William Allen, and finally graduated from Dartmouth college, 1813. On Sept. 10, (day of Perry's
victory on Lake Erie), he left his New England home and went to Pittsburg, Pa., where he taught school a few months, and
then embarked in trade. Sbortly after this he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he continued until 1820, when he resumed
teaching again with great success. May 30, 1821, he was elected ruling elder in the First Presbyterian church on Maine
Street, Rev. J. L. Wilson, D.D., pastor. Under Dr. Wilson he studied for the ministry, and after being licensed to preach
he supplied vacant churches in the city and vicinity, keeping up his school until 1828, when he was appointed chaplain to
the Ohio state prison, and moved in autumn to Columbus, and shortly after ordained as a gospel minister, at Truro, 0hio.
In Sept. 1831, he moved to Fort Wayne, Ind., and became pastor of the First Presbyterian church there. In 1832, he bought
twenty-eight acres of land adjoining the town, and mainly with his own hands built for himself a double log house, which
was his home the balance of his life, and there his wife died Aug. 18, 1833, aged 38. He married, 2nd, Mary Haven, widow
of Rev. Samuel Crane (missionary to Tuscarora Indians near Niagara Falls), at Dayton, 0hio, (with three children,
Cornelia, Mary D., and Samuel), Oct. 30, 1834. Rev. James Chute was a man of peace, love, patience, great piety and
temperance. In August 1835, he was attacked with bilious fever; convalescing from it, he caught a severe cold, producing
a relapse, which terminated his life Dec. 28, 1835. His widow moved to Crawfordsville, Ind., that she might better educate
her children, and died there Dec. 22, 1863."
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