WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
*****************************************************************************
Biography transcribed & donated to Wabasha County, MN Bios by
Barbara Koska Timm.  For more information, please check
out her site "Biographies and Historical Sketches of Wabasha County,
Minnesota" at <http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnwabbio>.
*****************************************************************************


			HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY


            TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL MATTER, STATISTICS, ETC.
                   GATHERED FROM MATTER FURNISHED BY 
                       INTERVIEWS WITH OLD SETTLERS,
        COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND OTHER RECORDS, AND EXTRACTS FROM 
                FILES OF PAPERS, PAMPHLETS, AND SUCH OTHER 
                     SOURCES AS HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE. 

                                   ALSO A 

                        HISTORY OF WINONA COUNTY

                                  CHICAGO:
                      H. H. HILL & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
                                     1884


Boutelle, Charles M. (deceased) became a resident of Chester in the spring of 1858, taking up 
 forty acres of land on section 23, which was still vacant, and buying the claim to eighty acres 
 adjoining. Here he dwelt till his death, which occurred December 10, 1876. He was born in Hancock, 
 New Hampshire, July 2, 1825. His father, Charles Boutelle, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and 
 afterward married Betsey Knight, mother of this subject. The latter married Sarah L. Buckminster, in 
 July, 1850; she was a daughter of Benjamin M. Buckminster, all of New Hampshire. She is still living 
 on the homestead in Chester, as is also her mother-in-law, Betsey Knight Boutelle. Mr. Boutelle was 
 ten years in charge of Bear Valley postoffice, which he kept in his house. He was a charter member 
 of the grange organized here, and resolutions of respect and mourning passed that body on his death. 
 He was several years treasurer of Chester township. His politics were republican. Two sons were all 
 his offspring. Clarence M. was born in Antrim in 1851. He graduated at the Winona normal school, 
 and was eight years a member of its faculty subsequently. He is now, with his wife (Fanny Kimber), 
 teaching in the Rochester Seminary.