ALBERT WARREN CLUTTER.  For more than thirty years Albert W. Clutter has been one of the popular and progressive citizens of Ada, and the confidence the community feels in his integrity and public spirit is illustrated by his present position as mayor of the city.
     He was born in Allen County, Ohio, August 22, 1862, a son of D. W. and Mary Ellen (Wollett) Clutter.  Both parents were natives of Ohio and his father was for many years a successful farmer in Allen county.  He served as trustee of Bath Township in that county for many years, filled the office of constable, assessor and member of the board of education, and always stood successfully the tests imposed upon good citizenship.
     Albert W. Clutter received a public school education and also attended what is now the Ohio Northern University at Ada.  He began his permanent residence at Ada on October 5, 1883, and at that time set up in business as photographer, a profession he had followed steadily for thirty years.  In his studio the representatives of more than a generation of people in this section of Hardin County have had their photographic work done, and he is the old and reliable photographer of that community.
      Mr. Clutter was elected mayor of Ada in 1915, and is now serving his two-year term with credit to himself and with benefit to the community.  He is a democrat, and is a charter member of Lodge No. 241 of the Knights of Pythias, served as chancellor commander, was its first master at arms and has also represented at the grand lodge.  He was a member of the board of directors of the Tri-County Fair Association, and is which he has served as chancellor commander, was its first master at arms and has also represented at the grand lodge.  He was a member of the board of directors of the Pythias, which he has ___ member of the Sons of Veterans, his father having served in the Union army in the Seventy-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
     On October 28, 1885, Mr. Clutter married Lenna E. Gilbert of Ada, whose father, M. V. Gilbert, was also a photographer by profession and was an old soldier, having served in the Fifty-fourth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  Mr. and Mrs. Clutter have four children:   D. Van Buren is now agent for the Ohio Electric Railway at Convoy, Ohio, and married Mary Lewis of that town.  Vondale is the wife of C. E. Stunn, who is associated with Mr. Clutter in the photograph business at Ada, and they have a son named Robert P. Alberto Brice and Guillermo Park are twins, and are both students in the Ohio Northern University.  The former married Hazel Parrott, of Lima, Ohio, and the latter married Tressie Fisher, also of Lima, Ohio, both having the distinction of being married by their father.
Source: History of Northwest Ohio - Vol. III - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Co. - Chicago & New York - by Nevin O. Winter, Litt. D. - 1917 - Pg.  816