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Born: March 11, 1837, Beth­le­hem (near Al­ba­ny), New York.
Died: Jan­u­a­ry 27, 1903, Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia.
Buried: Los An­ge­les Na­tion­al Cem­e­te­ry, Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia.

After teach­ing school (1854-59), Clute grad­u­at­ed from the Mi­chi­gan Ag­ri­cul­tur­al Coll­ege, then taught math 1862-66 be­fore stu­dy­ing at Mead­ville The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­ary. He pas­tored in Vine­land and New­ark, New Jer­sey; Ke­o­kuk and Iowa Ci­ty, Iowa; and Po­mo­na, Cal­i­for­nia. He al­so served as the fourth pres­i­dent of the Mi­chi­gan Ag­ri­cul­tur­al Coll­ege (now Mich­i­gan State Coll­ege) (1889-93) and Flor­i­da Ag­ri­cul­tur­al Coll­ege (1893-97). He spent his last years re­tired in Ca­li­for­nia.

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