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. Page 145.

A major discrepancy arose concerning the death of Miram Turner Chute (2 NOV 1852) and the birth of her daughter Miriam H. Chute (3 NOV 1852). It appears that Miriam Turner Chute died in childbirth, and her daughter lived approximately two months after her death. We have revised her daughter's birth date to 2 NOV 1852, to coincide with the death of her mother.

"Born in Otisfield, Me., Mar 29, 1845; married Almeda C., daughter of Benjamin Stone, Sept. 6, 1866; moved to Hillhurst, Compton, P.Q. Mrs. Chute died Feb. 17, 1888; he married, 2nd, Louisa Brown, 1889."

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. Page 182.

"Born Mar. 29, 1845, m. Almeda Stone, Sept. 6, 1866, went to Canada."

Source: Spurr, William Samuel. A History of Otisfield, Cumberland County, Maine, from the Original Grant to the Close of the Year 1944. Otisfield, Maine, 1944. Second Edition. Reprinted by the Town of Otisfield. 2nd Edition. Page 352.

"Born near Naples, Me., Aug. 30, 1817; married Ellen Jane, daughter of Fisher Mann, March 5, 1843; lived near Naples; she died Aug. 22, 1868, aged forty-four; he married 2nd, Hannah Jane (born Aug. 13, 1833), daughter of David H. and Ruth H. (Eastman) Cole, March 20, 1869. She married 1st, Andrew J. Cole - no relation - Dec. 23, 1850, and had five children. Mr. Cole died June 7, 1864, aged thirty-two. Mr. Chute was a pious industrious farmer. In doing hard work, as in rolling a log, he was wont to say "canto", and from that he was called "Canto Jim," to distinguish him from others of the name. He was chaplain in the Patrons of Husbandry in 1875; and his wife was Ceres. He was recording steward in the M. E. church in 1879; died June 12, 1884, a prominent Mason and Odd Fellow."

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 145-146.

"Born June 28, 1855; married Emma J. Putney, June 5, 1878; she died May 7, 1886, aged twenty-seven; he married, 2nd, Ella M., daughter of Rev. A. B. Lovewell, Feb. 27, 1887; is a farmer near Crooked River, below Naples."

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. p.183

Either Ida May's birthdate or the date of marriage is wrong.

"Russell was of Minot, Maine when he married Emma (SAWYER) Putney. She was of Poland. He was a locke operator at the Songo Lockes in Naples, Maine. Their first child died at the age of 10. Emma and Russell lived in Templeton, MA in 1882 where he had his own shop with two employees.

After Emma died, he married Ella Lovell, called a cousin in family papers. Russell died of tuberculosis in Lynn, MA at the age of 51 years and 4 months. He was a widow at the time, as Ella had died in 1887. Russell and his brothers and father were well known for their singing voices and one of his favorite songs was "THE SHORES OF TENNESSEE". My mother and aunts remember how he would sing to them when they were ill.¹

Emma Putney was really Emma Sawyer, dau. of Charles and Abigail Johnson Wilbur Sawyer. Her mother died in childbirth and she was taken in by the Putneys of Mechanic Falls, ME, as her father already had six other children and could not care for her. She did not know of this until she became an adult and came into some money inherited from the Sawyer family, and established a relationship with her birth family. Emma was very beautiful and could read and write, but was not a very good speller. She wrote letters to her siblings from Massachusetts and Russell and Emma would visit Maine. Her daughter Grace was spoiled and became a woman who spent her time reading or driving a fine team of horses, never taking a meal with her children. Eventually, Grace left her family, returned to Maine, living with her mother's relatives, until she divorced and remarried Russell Currier. The Sawyer family is descended from William Sawyer and Ruth Binford of Newbury, Essex, MA."

Source: Biographical Sketch courtesy of Claire Berry Cantrell, great-granddaughter of Russell and Emma Sawyer Chute. Sources: marriage records, death certificates, family photos, gravestones and family letters.

¹"The Shores of Tennessee" started its life as a poem written by Ethel Lynn Beers of Goshen, New York, and was an enormously popular - and emotional - Civil War-era song. Basically, it describes an aged and dying Tennessee veteran and his slave, anxiously waiting for the flying Union flag to appear on ships sailing north on the Tennessee River as evidence that the Union Army had won the Civil War. In the song's last verse, the ships proudly appear, the Union flags fluttering in the breeze, the aged veteran legally frees his slave, salutes the Union flag ... and dies. Given the subject matter, the song obviously won't be resurrected for the Top 40 any time in the near or far future, but it was very popular in its time.

"Born Oct. 22, 1819; married Emily N., daughter of Joseph Stuart of Harrison, Me., Nov. 21, 1844; was a good and useful man in society; he was a deacon in the Congregational Church; a Mason, and treasurer in the Patrons of Husbandry, 1879; died at Harrison, July 15, 1883."

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. Page 146.

"Born Feb. 25, 1827; married Elizabeth J., daughter of Thomas Hall of Naples, Sept. 24, 1853; and moved to Waterford 1863; to Harrison, August 1877."

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 146-147.

"Frank A. Chute, 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 married Calvin Brown, and both are now dead. Thomas married a Miss Wyer, of Harpswell, Me. (both deceased). Caroline S. first became the wife of Robert King. After his death she married Edward Kilmer; and, being a second time left a widow, she removed to Texas, where she married a Mr. Packing**. Both have since died. James 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 married Miss Mary Jane Chaplin; and they are living in Bridgton, Me. Frank A. Chute is a resident of Harrison, as above mentioned. William Chute, 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.

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."

WEC: "Was in Company G, 29th Maine and a prisoner; died at Annapolis, Maryland, Jun 1864."

This information is contradicted by U.S. Military Records, particularly in reference to the date of death:

"Emily L., b. Sept. 8, 1852, m. Eri, son of Clement Scribner, October 1867 and have three children."

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, page 147.

"Born in Otisfield, July 5, 1816; married Dorcas Cobb, daughter of William and Mary (Chute-Noyes) Abbott, Feb. 17, 1844, and lived at Standish in Gorham, south of Sebago Lake, but moved to Otisfield, near Bolster's Mills, 1846; was an industrious farmer; died Feb. 4, 1881."

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. Page 147.

He and wife Dorcas Abbott Chute are recorded in the 1860 and 1880 Maine Census.

"Born Dec. 29, 1834; married Lucette Philbrick, sister to Albion's 1st wife (see 163) Oct. 21, 1856; and settled in Otisfield, near Crooked River. They celebrated their "Silver Wedding" on October 21, 1881. He died May 21, 1892."

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 148-150

The celebration included the following song, composed for the occasion, and it should be noted that the two daughters, while still unmarried at the time of the composition of the song, did marry a short time afterwards:

The family appears in the 1860, 1870,and 1880 United States Federal Census. By the time of the 1910 Census, Lucetta Chute was a widow, and was letting out rooms in her home to boarders, for income. At the time of the 1870 Census, William was no longer a "farmer", but the owner and operator of the town poorhouse, although by 1880, he had returned to farming as his primary occupation. In the 1880 Census, the census taker, Jacob Cobham, incorrectly reversed the ages of Ida and Nellie, showing Nellie as 26 and Ida as 22.

An interesting genealogical sidenote: the Philbrick/Philbrook Family Association has a lengthy pedigree in their database, and it appears that a distant common ancestor between the Chutes and the Philbricks is the same Bigod ancestor whose descendants (now known as Wiggetts) occupied the Vyne in Hampshire.