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William Paine Dutton
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Lumberman.
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William Paine Dutton
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Born at Sycamore, Illinois on 25 April 1872, son of Everell F. Dutton and Rosina A. Paine, he was educated at Lombard College (Galesburg, Illinois), Harvard College (AB 1896) and Harvard Law School (LLB 1898). He was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1899 then practiced law at Sycamore and Chicago for a time.
He came to Winnipeg in 1903 and became engaged in the lumber business, first by starting the Red Deer Lumber Company. He would eventually be President of the Elk Lumber Manufacturing Company (Fernie, BC), Great West Lumber Company, Winnipeg Lumbermen’s Wholesale Association, Western Retail Lumbermen’s Association, Mid-West Glass Company, Dutton Wall Lumber Company and the Great West Lumber Mills Limited, and a Director of the Western Stone Company, and Canadian Director of the British Dominions Land Settlement Corporation.
In 1902, he married Blanche B. Blue (?-1912) and they had four children: Everell Fletcher “Ev” Dutton, Charlotte Blanche Dutton (1906-2001, wife of Philip Pierce Halls), William Paine “Bill” Dutton (1909-?), and Eleanor Mae Dutton (1910-2007, wife of Jonathan Malcolm “Michael” Pretty). He married Mae Lillian White (1881-1950) and they had a son, Spencer Van Horne Dutton (1917-?). He was a member of the Harvard Club, Loyal Legion of America, Rotary Club, Manitoba Club, St. Charles Country Club, Winnipeg Automobile Club, and Stonewall Automobile Club. He served on the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission, Chaired the Winnipeg Progressive Association, and was a member and treasurer of the Council of the Winnipeg Board of Trade, and President of the Industrial Development Board of Manitoba.
He died at his Winnipeg home, 124 Harrow Street, on 18 September 1942 and was buried at Sycamore, Illinois.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Rowley House and Coach House (124 Harrow Street, Winnipeg)
Birth, marriage, and death registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Who’s Who in Western Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of Western Canada, Volume 1, edited by C. W. Parker, Vancouver: Canadian Press Association, 1911.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
Pioneers and Prominent People of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Canadian Publicity Company, 1925.
“W. P. Dutton dies Friday at residence,” Winnipeg Tribune, 19 September 1942, page 17. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B9, page 118]
Obituary [Mrs. W. P. Dutton], Winnipeg Tribune, 19 May 1950, page 2.
Obituary [Everell F. Dutton], Winnipeg Free Press, 31 December 1983, page 20.
Obituary [Charlotte Blanche Halls], Winnipeg Free Press, 17 February 2001.
Obituary [Eleanor Mae Pretty], Winnipeg Free Press, 10 March 2007.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 August 2023
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