Dutton, Asa bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 947, Woodland Township
Asa Dutton, farmer, sec. 3; P. O., Summum. This gentleman is a native of Brown Co., O., where he was born in the year 1833; he was 10 years of age when his parents settled in Fulton Co.; Jan. 15th, 1860, he was united in marriage to Miss Martha J., daughter of Wm. H. Browning, of Ohio; 8 children blessed this union: Flora A., Mary M., Sarah B., Wm. H. H., Jas. A., Eliza, Lucinda and Marcellus.