"Born Aug. 8, 1815; married Mary Jane⁹, daughter of Charles and Janet (Newcomb) Cox, Mar. 30, 1850; Janet Newsbit Newcomb⁸ (Abram⁷, Abram⁶, Capt. Eddy⁵, Dea. John⁴, Simon³, Andrew², Andrew¹), (1800-1867) was 2nd wife of Charles Cox. Mr. Chute early imbibed a taste for study, and after getting what education he could from the common school at home, attended Readfield Seminary, Maine, 1835-36; after that he attended Horton Seminary and Acadia College in Nova Scotia four years, and was ordained to the Baptist ministry 1850. 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 six years until failing health warned him to retire, and since then only preached occasionally. He lives at Upper Stewiacke, Colchester Co."

Source: Chute, William Edward. 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. Pages 73-74.

This couple had 2 sons.

Source: Brown Thurston, compiler, Thurston Genealogies, 2nd Edition, Portland, Maine, 1892, Additions to Page 41, No. 452, Line 4

This couple had 3 children.

Source: Brown Thurston, compiler, Thurston Genealogies, 2nd Edition, Portland, Maine, 1892, Additions to Page 41, No. 452, Line 4

"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.

Attended Wabash College.

"Born at Boxford, Nov. 15, 1788; married Martha Hews Clapp⁷ (William Tileston⁶, William⁵, Ebenezer4, Ebenezer³, Nathaniel², Nicholas¹) of Dorchester, Mass., Oct. 23, 1817, and 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."

Source: Chute, William Edward. 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. Pages 76-77.