Clute, Henry Alson
farmer, merchant, soldier, state legislator, was born March 24, 1840, in Wayne county, N. Y.
His ancestors settled on the Hudson river soon after the settlement of New York. His father was born in 1804 in Johnstown, N. Y., where his grandfather had settled before the revolutionary war.
He moved to Michigan with his parents when four years of age; and during the civil war served for three years in the second Missouri cavalry or Merrill Horse.
He has filled numerous public offices of trust in Calhoun county; and in 1897 was elected a member of the Michigan state legislature from Marshall.