Geauga county, Ohio, and, in 1897, he with his parents and brothers moved to the town of Telluride, Colorado, where they engaged in the mining business for ten years.

On January 31, 1907, he was united in marriage with Miss Clara Dutton and they at once moved to Lincoln, Nebraska. In September, 1907, Mr. Dutton enrolled as a student in the Law College of the State University of Nebraska, completing the course, and receiving his certificate of admission to the bar in June, 1910. He then returned to Colorado, located at Grand Junction and practiced law there until 1912.

Mr. and Mrs. Dutton have two children : Jeanette, born in Grand Junction, Colorado, on December 25, 1910 ; and Mary Louise, born in Oshkosh, Nebraska, June 16, 1915.

Banking and Finance

Garden county has only five banks but they are all solid, thriving institutions. Two of them are located at Oshkosh, two at Lewellen and one at Lisco.

The first bank here was the Deuel County Bank, organized at Oshkosh in 1904, by J. W. Wehn. For the first few months the business was crowded into the sitting room of the Miller hotel. The bank then moved into a new frame building built especially for a banking house. When the railroad was surveyed and located, the new bank was unfortunately found to be in the middle of the right of way, so they sold the building to the railroad company, and moved into a small frame building on the east side of Main street. About this time Rob't A. Day succeeded P. W. Burke as cashier, which position Mr. Day held until January, 1919, when he was elected president. Three months later John T. Wood, a successful banker from Mason City, Custer county, Nebraska, located here, bought Mr. Day's interest in the bank, and Mr.