San Joaquin County
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WILLIAM BRONSON NUTTER
WILLIAM BRONSON NUTTER, an
attorney at Stockton, was born in Nevada County, California, December 15, 1859,
a son of William M. and Julia A. (Murphy) Nutter. His father, a native of New
Hampshire, enlisted for the Mexican war, in the First Mississippi Rifles, of
which the late Jefferson Davis, afterward president of the Southern
Confederacy, was colonel. He came to California in 1849 by the Panama route and
engaged in mining for a few years, when he went East,
about 1851, and was married in St. Louis, his wife being, however, a native of
Boston. Upon their marriage they set out for this coast in 1852, and settled
eight miles from Grass Valley, where they eventually became owners of 450
acres. His father was also interested in mines, with but little or no profit.
He was a supervisor of Nevada County for four years, and a school trustee for
many years. He was a charter member of Mountain Rose Lodge, I. O. O. F., at
Rough and Ready. He died on his ranch in Nevada County, aged about fifty years.
One brother at least is living in Fall River Mills, New Hampshire, who is over
sixty years of age. William M. Nutter left two surviving children: the subject
of this sketch and a daughter, Georgiana, now Mrs. Charles M. Paine; the
latter, with her husband, is living with Mrs. Nutter, on the ranch in Nevada
County. They have two girls, Mary and Daisy.
William B. Nutter was educated in the local district school, and afterward in Heald’s Business College in San Francisco. He then read law in the office of Judge F. T. Baldwin, of this city. He was appointed deputy Recorder, then deputy Treasurer and finally deputy Clerk of this county, acting as clerk in department one of the Superior Court. He was admitted to the bar of this State November 10, 1885, and has since practiced in this city, being associated for some time with August Muenter. He was elected City Attorney by the city council in December, 1888, and was one of the board of fifteen freeholders who framed the new city charter passed by the Legislature in the session of 1889. He formed a law partnership with Martin DeVries, August 3, 1889, under the style of Nutter & DeVries.
Mr. Nutter was married in this city, April 20, 1887, to Miss Clara Belle Davis, born in Stockton, February, 1865, a daughter of Stephen H. and Caroline Davis. The father died August 19, 1885; the mother is living.
Mr. Nutting is Past President of Stockton Parlor, No. 7, N. S. G. W.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 418. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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