JOHN PATTERSON CLUTTER, a prosperous farmer and miller, Morris township, is a descendant of an old Irish-American family. John Clutter, a native of Ireland, immigrated to New Jersey in early colonial days, and is the earliest ancestor of the family in this country. He moved to Washington county, Penn., in 1788, and located on a farm of about six hundred acres one mile north of Lindley's Mills, where he died in 1828. One of his sons, John, born February 17, 1771, married in Pennsylvania, March 1, 1792, Phoebe Headley, a native of New Jersey, born October 16,1774. In 1792 they located on a farm about one mile northwest of Lindley's Mills, in Morris township, where they reared a family of thirteen children, their names and dates of birth being as follows: Nancy, October 29, 1792; Isaac, July 8, 1794; Abraham, October 29, 1795; Jacob, August 5, 1797; Abigail, July 13, 1799; Martha, August 19, 1801; Eunice May 3, 1804; John P. (the father of the subject of this sketch); Ruth B., October 22, 1808; Joseph, October 2, 1810; Phoebe, February 18, 1813; Hannah, August 18, 1814; Luvina, January 28, 1818; of whom Joseph and Hannah are the only living members. Joseph was married, in Washington county, Penn., and removed to Missouri in 1876, where he now resides. Hannah married, in 1838, Samuel Booth, who died of typhoid fever in 1839, and in 1851 Mrs. Booth married L. F. Day; Mr. Day died in 1852. He was a Christian gentleman, a strong advocate of the abolition of slavery, and an earnest worker in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which Mrs. Day is also a member. John Patterson Clutter, the eighth child born to John and Phoebe (Headley) Clutter, was born September 2, 1807, in Morris township, Washington county. He was reared to farm life, and received but a meager education. He married, in 1835, Margaret Andrew, also a native of Morris township, born January 11, 1816, and seven children were born to them, five of whom are living, as follows: Maria, born July 4, 1836; James Jasper, born August 28, 1838, now a resident of Hamilton, Caldwell Co., Mo.; Thomas H. Benton, born August 2, 1841, a prominent physician of Crestline, Ohio; Evelina, born September 16, 1844; Samuel B., born August 14, 1846, engaged in the hotel business at Washington; John Patterson; Robert M., born April 10, 1857, connected with the W. & W. R. R. Company, and residing at Waynesburgh, Greene Co., Penn. John Patterson Clutter, the sixth child of John P. and Margaret (Andrew) Clutter, was born January 23, 1854. He received a common-school education, and afterward attended Monongahela College, at Jefferson, Penn. After leaving college he taught school for a period of three years, when he began the operation of the mill, which he now successfully controls. Mr. Clutter married January 3, 1880, Mary Alice, a daughter of Hamilton Penn, of Morris township, and to them have been born five children: Cleveland, Joanna Grace, Bernice Margaret, John H. and Emma, all of whom (except Cleveland, who died at the age of six months) are still living. Mr. Clutter is an ardent Democrat, and was elected county auditor in 1889, receiving the largest vote in his own township of any candidate before the people. Both he and Mrs. Clutter are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, at West Union, Penn. In addition to his mill work he owns and conducts a farm.

Text taken from page 519 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed May 1997 by George & Mary Ann Plance of Gainesville, FL as part of the Beers Project. Published June 1997 on the Washington County, PA pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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