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JOHN E. TUTTON, District Clerk, was born in Illinois May 22, 1851, He received a common school education and came to Kansas at the age of eighteen. He first was employed as a clerk in a dry goods store at Baxter Springs one year, and was then in a drug store at Eureka, Kan., then to Baxter Springs; then went to St. Louis and remained one year at school in a mercantile college, and on his return to Baxter was engaged in hotel business three years. He next went to Missouri as division agent for the Southwestern Stage Company. Then came back to Baxter as cashier and book keeper for Sorber Mining and Smelting Company one year, then went to Galesburg, Ill., and was in hotel business a short time. From Galesburg he went to Loup City, Neb., and engaged in general merchandising one year; then was at Baxter Springs five months as agent for the Wells & Fargo Express. He was then in Texas in a hotel, then in Webb City, Mo., in 1877, in general merchandising. In 1878, he remained in Baxter a short time and then went to Columbus, Kan., as Deputy County Treasurer two years. In the fall of 1880, he was elected to the office of District Clerk. He was married to Miss Lora Crothers, of Sparta. Ill., November 17, 1880.