Otto Clyde Nutting (1875-1972) was born on August 17, 1875 to George William Nutting, a sawmill tender, and Rosa S. Nutting or Susan Allen Nutting in Concord, New Hampshire. Otto first married Mildred Ann (Richardson) Worth. After Otto’s divorce from Mildred he married Thalia Rebecca Bailey (1893-1978), a stenographer, born on January 16, 1893 to Lincoln Bailey and Julia J. (Soule) Bailey, on September 8, 1915 in Woolwich. Otto was 40 and Thalia was 22.
By about 1930 Otto was listing himself as O.C. Nutting, a lumber manufacturer in Somesville, selling "boards and dimension lumber" and "long and short lumber suitable for building purposes." This was apparently when the Nuttings began to rent the beautiful house on the millpond in Somesville. The Nuttings summered in Somesville, leading a very social life there, entertaining and involving themselves in many civic causes.
