Dutton, Joseph, 1843-1931

Officer, 13th Wisconsin Volunteers Regiment. Missionary to leper colony in Molokai, an island in the Hawaiian group. Originally from Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin.

From the description of Diary, 1855-1864, bulk 1861-1864. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 15788923

Missionary and army officer.

From the description of Papers of Joseph Dutton, 1919-1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71010068

Brother Joseph Dutton, born Ira Dutton, served at the leper colony on Molokai in the Hawaiian Islands.

From the description of Papers, [ca. 1863]-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155541877

Ira Dutton was a Catholic lay missionary at the leper settlement of Kalaupapa, Molokai Island, Hawaii. Dutton, born in Stowe, Vermont, served as a lieutenant in the Union Army during the Civil War, and later as a claims adjuster for the War Department. He married shortly after the war, his wife deserting him within a year and leaving him in a state of drunken dissipation. In 1883, on his fortieth birthday, he was baptized into the Catholic faith.

He spent two years as an oblate at the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky. In 1886 he learned of the work of Father Damien de Veuster, SS. CC., with the lepers of Kalaupapa and decided that a life of service there would be a suitable means of penance for his years of dissipation. Dutton arrived on the island in 1886, working with Father Damien until Damien's death in 1889, and remaining on the island until the time of his own death in 1931.

From the description of Papers, 1855-1981. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 24636929