U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- McNutt, Charles R. (1854-1937) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Men of West Virginia, Volume II Biographical Publishing Company George Richmond, Pres.: C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas. Chicago, Illinois, 1903 Pages 551-552 CHARLES R. McNUTT, one of the leading attorneys and successful business citizens of Princeton, West Virginia, was born in 1854 at Princeton, and is a son of Dr. Robert Blaine and Ellen E. (Peck) McNutt. The McNutt family is of Scotch-Irish descent and John McNutt, the earliest known ancestor, was a native and resident of Scotland. A part of the family removed to County Donegal, Ireland, and from that point a John McNutt, son of Alexander and Jane McNutt, emigrated in 1745 and settled in Orange (now Rockbridge) County, Virginia, on the North River. John McNutt married Katherine Anderson, and their son William was born April 16, 1774. In 1806 the latter married Elizabeth Grigsby, born March 10, 1776 and they lived in Rockbridge County where he was a man highly regarded and a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Robert Blaine McNutt, the father of our subject, was born February 19, 1814, and died in 1894. He was one of the best known and most respected men of his section, and for years was the only physician accessible to Mercer and McDowell counties. He spent a few years at Blacksburg, Virginia, after graduating at Richmond College. Many leading families of Virginia — the Grigsbys, the Glasgows, the McCorkles and the Greenless — were his kindred and Governor McNutt of Mississippi belonged to the same stock. The mother of our subject was born in Giles County, Virginia, a daughter of John Peck, a stanch Whig and man of affairs in his locality. Five children were born to Dr. and Mrs. McNutt, namely: John W., a druggist of St. Louis, Missouri, married Jennie Black; Dr. Joseph P., a physician at Princeton, married Jennie Adair; Josephine, born in 1845, died in 1862; Charles R.; and Juanita, the wife of G. H. Sinclair of Charlottesville, Virginia. The subject of this sketch was reared in Mercer County and completed his education at Emory and Henry College. His study of the law was with Capt. John A. Douglass at Princeton, Mercer County, and he was admitted to practice in 1889, being for some time a partner of Captain Douglass. From 1873, for 12 years, he was in the county clerk's office, six years as deputy and six years as clerk. Mr. McNutt has so many business interests at present that he does not confine himself to the practice of his profession. He owns two fine farms near Princeton which he devotes to stock raising, and his home is one of the handsomest in Princeton. In 1883 Mr. McNutt married Emma B. Barnes, daughter of Rev. William H. Barnes, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. She was reared in the old and aristocratic city of Norfolk, Virginia. The five children of this union are: Roberta, William B., Charles R., Jr., Juanita, Joe Douglass, their ages ranging from 19 to 10 years. Mr. McNutt has been a lifelong Democrat, and, notwithstanding the fact that his county and State, in recent years, have become overwhelmingly Republican, he still adheres to his principles. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Mercer County, WV #7737 FULL-NAME: Charles Robert McNutt BIRTH-DATE: May 3, 1854 BIRTH-PLACE: W.Va DEATH-DATE: May 5, 1937 (at 83 years of age) DEATH-PLACE: Princetown, East River District, Mercer County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: widower OCCUPATION: Retired lawyer FATHER: R. B. McNutt (born in Va.) MOTHER: Ellen E. Peck (born in Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: acute cardiac dilatation / old age INFORMANT: Mrs. H. C. Ellett (of Princeton) BURIAL: Princeton ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Mercer County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/mercer/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------