Herbert Melburn Chute [52245] ¹⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Blacksmith, 1877, Luton, Malahide, Ontario, Canada. ¹¹⁷⁷⁵

• Census: 1880 Census, 1880, Codington County, Watertown Township, South Dakota, USA. ¹¹⁷⁷⁶ Database: SD 1880 Federal Census Index, Page 407

• Residence: McPherson County, South Dakota, USA, 1883, McPherson County, South Dakota, USA. ⁷⁷ "Lived at Luton, Malahide; went to McPherson County, South Dakota in 1883, where 6 of their children were born.

• Residence: Appearance in tax records, 1884, Leola, Mcpherson County, South Dakota, USA. ¹¹⁷⁷⁷ Appear in tax records, Leola, Washington Township, McPherson County, South Dakota, 1884.
From the Leola SD, Centennial Book, 1884-1984, published by the Odessa Digital Library, 29 Nov 1994, <http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/library/odessa.html>, Leola Centennial Anniversary Book, 1984, Published by the Leola Centennial Committee, Leola, South Dakota
The following information pertains to Herbert Melburn Chute <gp95.htm> and Arthur William Chute <gp790.htm>, brothers, both sons of Sydney Chute.
"The 1884 tax list shows every section of Washington Township taxed. Some of the early settlers were: Nathan Pierce, Gottlob Pade, Sr., Jennie Hoffman (formerly Hummel), Robert Hill, Henry Young, Thomas Crompton, Arthur Chute, Frank Boyle, the Huntley family, Anna Russell, Ida and Laura Warren, Rosell Anderson, J. H. Darlington, and Hamlin Garland. The tax record shows J. H. Darlington owned only one quarter of land in the township. It was on this NE 1/4 of Section 36 that five men gathered in a shanty to organize McPherson County. The land description is noted in the first book of the McPherson County minutes.
According to the 1884 tax records, personal property tax carried a higher levy than real estate. Hamlin Garland's land value was $575, taxed at $1.43; Thomas Crompton's land value was $650, taxes were $1.62; Gottlob Pade, Sr.'s personal property was valued at $170, taxed at $7.65; Arthur Chute's personal property valued at $245, taxed $9.80; and Henry Hoover's personal property valued at $700, taxed at $23.36.
The first school in Washington Township was called the Chute School, later known as the Nelson School. It was located seven miles south of Leola, on the Wetonka corner. The second school, called the Crompton School was located about three miles east of the Chute School. Both schools were built in 1884. The third school, the Pierce School, was located 1 1/2 miles from the Nathan Pierce farm (five miles from Leola) and this school was started around 1910. It was later known as Washington No. 2.

• Occupation: Postmaster, 1885-1886, Leola, Mcpherson County, South Dakota, USA. ¹¹⁷⁷⁷ A post office was started January 13, 1885, with Herbert Chute as postmaster. It was discontinued in 1886."

• Residence: Brown County, South Dakota, USA, 1890, Brown County, South Dakota, USA. ¹¹⁷⁰⁹ They were in Brown County, South Dakota in 1890, based on Stanley Chute's birth record in the South Dakota birth record archives.

• Residence: Yorkton, Assa County, Northwest Territories, Canada, 1891, Yorkton, Assa County, Northwest Territories, Canada. ⁷⁷ William Edward Chute's Chute Genealogies has them moving to Yorkton, Assa County, Northwest Territories in 1891.

• Residence: Seho, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1893-1894, Seho, Saskatchewan, Canada. Drought forced the family to move to Seho, Saskatchewan, where their daughter Grace and son Archie were born.

• Residence: Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada, 1894, Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada. The family moved to the Dauphin, Manitoba area by wagon, arriving on Christmas Eve, 1894."

Flin Flon, based upon Archie Chute's birth records.

• Residence, 1901, Marquette County, Manitoba, Canada.

• ID NUMBERS: Family Group Number GP95-1, 2002. GP95-1

• ID NUMBERS: GMC Page Number 51, 2002.

• ID NUMBERS: Notes Number NP49-778, 2002. NP49-778

• ID NUMBERS: WEC ID Number 236, P. 173, 2002. 236, Page 173

• LINE NO.: 305.

Herbert married Ruth Conner [52264] [MRIN: 551613509] on 26 Dec 1877 in Luton, Malahide, Ontario, Canada. (Ruth Conner [52264] was born in 1856 in Port Rowan, Ontario, Canada and died in Dec 1937 in Dauphin Plains, Manitoba Province, Canada.)