A. M. Tuttle

TUTTLE, BOSWORTH, GROESBECK, VANDIKE, WRIGHT, HOUGHTON

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Date: 4/4/2002 at 14:05:45

TUTTLE, A.M., retired; born June 4, 1817, at Austinburg, Ohio, the residence of his parents and grandparents on both sides, all of whom removed from Connecticut; his grandparents settled there in 1800, his father later. He received a good common school education, with four terms at Farmington Academy. In 1834, his father, with a family of eleven children (now scattered from Ohio to Washington Territory), removed to Nelson, Ohio; June 2, 1838, A.M., in company with B. B. Bosworth and David Groesbeck, his uncles, started for the Black Hawk Purchase, arriving at Fort Madison six weeks after; Mr. Bosworth soon after died, and, after traveling that season, Mr. Tuttle returned to Ohio with Mr. Bosworth’s family, and remained there and in Virginia for two years, teaching, and then returned to Denmark, where he married Miss Eliza J. Vandike, December 19, 1841; he engaged in farming until 1857, since when he has resided in Denmark; Sept. 18, 1871, his wife died, having been constant sufferer for more than forty years; was a member of long standing in the Congregational Church; a woman of few words, but many good deeds; she left three children-Mary J., born Jan. 30, 1845 (graduated at Denmark Academy, now the wife of George Wright, a farmer, of Ellsworth Co., Kan.); Emma T., born January, 1850 (also educated at Denmark Academy, and, in 1868, engaged in the millinery business, which she has since continued; the wife of A. B. Houghton, a native of Toronto, Canada, of French ancestry, a skillful portrait and landscape painter, a resident of Denmark); A. M., Jr., born in October, 1855, a farmer of Ellsworth Co., Kan. Mr. Tuttle is decidedly Republican in politics; the township of which he was a resident at the time of Andrew Jackson’s election did not cast a vote for him; for more than forty years, a member of the Congregational Church.