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From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin, publ. 1901 - page 61
CHARLES J. F. NUTI, one of the prominent early settlers and now a retired farmer of Cassville, Grant county, was born in Italy in 1818, a son of Jacinto and Camelia NUTI, also natives of that country. He was reared in Florence, and when a young man went to France as steward for a gentleman, later going with him to England, and remaining in his employ for twenty years.
In 1850 Mr. NUTI crossed the Atlantic, and proceeded at once to Grant county, Wis. The following year he located in Potosi, where he made his home for two years, while in the service of a man who was agent for a large tract of land. He then moved to Cassville and rented a farm belonging to a Mr. PRICE. While residing there Mr. NUTI purchased 160 acres of wild land, one-half of which was covered with timber, and, taking up his residence thereon in 1853, he turned his attention to its improvement, and soon converted it into one of the finest, improved and most highly cultivated farms of that section of the county. For many years he as successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising, and still owns his farm, though he now lives a retired life in Cassville.
Before leaving England Mr. NUTI was married, in 1850, to Miss Matilda Louisa ANDREWS, a native of Bridgeport, that country, who died at Cassville in 1899, after a happy married life of nearly fifty years. By that union four children were born, namely: Mrs. Evangeline Matilda SPILLER, a resident of Cassville; Mrs. Anna Babbit HURST, of Chippewa Falls, Wis.; Orlando Charles, who is married, and lives on the home farm; and Dorretta CALDER, who died in Chippewa Falls in 1887.
Since the organization of the Republican party Mr. NUTI has been a stanch supporter of its principles. He is a faithful and consistent member of the Presbyterian Church, and a man highly respected and esteemed by all who know him.
This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck