Agnes Gertrude Cady and Joseph Scott McNutt
JOSEPH SCOTT MCNUTT, son of HELEN MARIE PATTERSON and LT. ALBERT SCOTT MCNUTT, was born January 11, 1885 in Ft. D. A. Russell, Wyoming,13 and died September 23, 1974 in St. Louis, Missouri.12586
He married AGNES GERTRUDE CADY on May 27, 1924 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.2897 She was born November 12, 1887 in St. Louis, Missouri,13 and died February 27, 1975 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.8953
Children of AGNES GERTRUDE CADY and JOSEPH SCOTT MCNUTT:
- FRANCIS SCOTT MCNUTT, b. April 22, 1925, St. Louis, Missouri;13 m. JUDITH CAROL SEWELL on February 9, 1980 in Pinellas County, Florida280; d. January 12, 2020.10068
- MARGARET ALEXANDRA MCNUTT, b. January 1, 1929, St. Louis, Missouri;13 m. J. RICHARDSON USHER on June 11, 19498954; d. July 25, 1987, Mercy Hospital Medical Center, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa.5015
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Education
- Joseph Scott McNutt attended Harvard University, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts.6540
- Member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon
- Activities: Engineering Society, Indiana Club
Marriage Announcements and News
Alton Evening Telegraph, January 7, 19242896
Miss Cady to Wed St. Louis Portrait Painter
Mis Agnes Cady is announcing to St. Louis and Alton friends her engagement to Scott McNutt, a prominent portrait painter of St. Louis. The marriage will take place during the early summer. Miss Cady will, before her marriage, give a short course of lessons at the Studio School of Music.
Miss Cady is will known in Alton and her approaching marriage will be of much interest. Miss Cady is a graceful and accomplished aesthetic dancer, and only recently spent many monts in Europe studying.
Alton Evening Telegraph, May 27, 19242897
McNutt-Cady Nuptials in St. Louie This Morning
Miss Agnes Gertrude Cady became the bride of Joseph Scott MacNutt, a st. Louis artist, this morning. Shortly after their marriage Mr. MacNutt and his bride left for Boston and other Eastern points where they will remain until September. In the fall they expect to return to St. Louis.
Mrs. McNutt is well known in Alton and visits here frequently as the guest of Miss K. V. Dickinson of the Studio School of Music. She also taught aesthetic dancing in Alton for several seasons, and on several occasions appeared in solo work at entertainments in this city.
Alton Evening Telegraph, May 28, 19242898
Miss Agnes Gertrude Cady a Bride.
(Globe-Democrat)
An interesting wedding of yesterday morning was the marriage of Miss Agnes Gertrude Cady, granddaughter of the late Judge Charles Frederick Cady of St. Louis, and Joseph Scott McNutt. The ceremony was performed in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James William Caldwell, 4119 McPherson avenue. The affair was quiet and the couple dispensed with attendants. William R. Cady gave his sister in marriage, and Rev. Father Tucker of the St. Louis Cathedral officiated.
The bride wore a becoming traveling costume fashioned of brown cloth, with satin hat to match trimmed with satin flowers in the same brown tones. She wore orchids in her corsage.
Mr. McNutt and his bride departed for the East to pass their honeymoon, and because of their train leaving at noon, the wedding breakfast preceded the ceremony. They will spend the summer at Ogonquit, Me., and will return to St. Louis in autumn to make their home.
The bride has been supervisor of dancing for the city and has directed the playgournd productions each year at Forest Park for the past nine years. Mr. McNutt is a portrait painter. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University and formerly resided in Boston, but has lived in St. Louis for a few years.
Newspaper Articles
Alton Evening Telegraph, May 28, 19272899
McNutt Family to Return To America
Mr. and Mrs. Scott McNutt and daughter of St. Louis will sail for America the first of June, after a winter in Europe. Mr. McNutt and family will spend the summer at Boston and other points in the east and will not be in St. Louis until fall. Mrs. McNutt will be remembered as Miss Agnes Cady, well known among the patrons of the Studio School of Music.
Mr. McNutt, who is an artist, has met with much success in his work abroad and was feted by royalty on several occasions. The King and Queen of Spain gave a dinner for Mr. McNutt and his family.
Alton Evening Telegraph, June 5, 19282900
Mr. and Mrs. Scott McNutt of 72 Vandenventer place, St. Louis, and their small son, Francis Scott McNutt, wil depart next Sunday for Ogunquit, Me., where they will spend a month. July 14 they will sail on the Saturnia for Trieste and will spend the remainder of the summer with Mr. McNutt's aunt, Mrs. Frances McNutt at her castle "Ratzotz," outside of Brixen in the Tyrol.
Alton Evening Telegraph, March 9, 19453802
MacNutt Exhibition
Invitations have been received by friends of J. Scott MacNutt to a reception and private view of his portraits at the St. Louis Artists' Guild, 812 Union boulevard, St. Louis, next Sunday afternoon from 5 to 7 o'clock. The portraits will be on exhibition until March 21.
Obituaries
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 24, 197412586
J. Scott MacNutt Dies At Age 89; Leading St. Louis Portrait Artist
J. Scott MacNutt, a leading St. Louis portrait artist, died yesterday at Jewish Hospital after suffering a stroke. He was 89 years old and lived at 5067 Westminster Place.
Mr. MacNutt, who quit engineering to become an artist, established a reputation as a painter of portraits of prominent Midwesterners and of European royalty.
He was a president of the Artists' Guild, a member of the municipal Art Commission and chairman of the advisory board of the Vandeventer Place Association. In 1947, the association was involved in efforts to block the construction of the $15,000,000 Cochran Veterans Hospital in the area.
Mr. MacNutt was born in 1885 in Fort Russell, Wyo. He graduated in 1906 from Harvard with honors in both general studies and in mechanical engineering, his special field.
After Harvard, he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained a degree in biology and public health.
He held jobs as a sanitarian with the Pittsburgh Typhoid Fever Commission and as a health officer in Orange, N.J. He was appointed a lecturer in his field at Massachusetts institute of Technology and was commissioned by the Army in World War I, serving two years.
Becoming listless in his occupation, he took to painting in earnest in 1920 and studied privately at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He accepted a teaching post at the Woodbury School of Art in Boston and Ogunquit, Me., and another job at the school of the Art Institute, Chicago, where he became associate dean in charge of coordinating the work of the largest art faculty in the world.
As an established portrait painter, Mr. MacNutt felt free to turn down what he considered foolish requests from some patrons.
But he did honor some requests. One was on a portrait of Edmund Wuerpel, director of an art school at Washington University from 1905 to 1938. Mrs. Wuerpel asked Mr. MacNutt, "My husband never has a crease in his trousers in life, I know, but couldn't you please put one in his picture?"
Mr. MacNutt supplied the crease. "That highlight supplied an accent the composition needed," he said. "I'm very glad Mrs. Wuerpel spoke up."
Surviving are his wife, the former Agnes Cady; a daughter, Mrs. Alexandra Usher, and a son, the Rev. Francis S. MacNutt. Private services will be tomorrow and burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. A memorial Mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Academy of the Visitation, 3020 North Ballas Road, St. Louis County.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 28, 19758953
Mrs. A. C. MacNutt Ex-Teacher, Dies
Mrs. Agnes Cady MacNutt, a former ballet dancer and ballet teacher here, died of cancer yesterday at St. Luke's Hospital. She was 87 years old and lived in the Central West End.
Mrs. MacNutt, whose family settled here in 1824, taught dancing to children at St. Louis playgrounds in the early 1920s. Her husband, J. Scott MacNutt, a leading portrait artist, died last September.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. J. Richardson Usher, Webster Groves, a son, The Rev. Francis S. MacNutt OP, St. Louis; and two sisters, Mrs. Lucille DeSalme, Fenton, and Mrs. Georgia Bernard, LaJolla, Calif. A Scripture reading will be conducted at 7 p.m. today at Donnelly's undertaking establishment, 3840 Lindell Boulevard. Private burial will be in Calvary Cemetery tomorrow.
Census Records
| Date | Location | Enumerated Names |
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| April 15, 19101728 | Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts |
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| April 2, 1930420 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois |
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| April 18, 19402708 | St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri |
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