Nutting, Horatio Nelson


BORN: 1837
BORN IN: Maine
DIED: 11/30/1882
AGED: 45
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City

OCCUPATION: Attorney
MEMBER OF: IOOF

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  • 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
  • 1846 Mexican-American War
  • 1849 California Gold Rush
  • 1850 California became the 31st State
  • 1860 The Pony Express
  • 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
  • 1861 American Civil War
  • 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
  • 1866 Ku Klux Klan
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
  • 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)

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H. N. NUTTING

Times & Gazette

December 2, 1882

Mr. Nutting was born in Parkman, Maine, in March 1838, and his age at the time of his death of 44 years. He graduated at the Colby University, Maine, in 1863 and immediately came to California. He arrived in Redwood City in 1865, and in the same year, secured the position of Principal of the Redwood City Public Schools. His popularity as a teacher so increased that in a short time he was elected to the position of County Superintendent of Public instruction. In the year 1872, he was elected District Attorney of San Mateo County, which position he held for eight years. In the meantime, he edited the Times and Gazette, until 1879. Since then, Mr. Nutting has pursued his profession of attorney in Redwood City.

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