Santa Cruz-Shasta-Colusa County CA Archives Biographies.....Tuttle, Daniel 1823 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

DANIEL TUTTLE, one of the successful business men of Watsonville, and a pioneer,
was born in Richland county, Ohio, in 1823. He is a son of Hiram and Annie
(Dille) Tuttle, who were among the earliest settlers of Ohio. In that State his
father built a house which had not a single nail in it, even the doors being
pinned together. They had six sons and two daughters. The father died in 1848
and the mother in 1890.

  Mr. Tuttle received a fair common-school education, and was reared on a farm.
At the age of twenty years he began to do for himself. He had only three dollars
in money, and after paying half of it for his license, he began married life
with the small sum of $1.50. Near Ottumwa, Iowa, he engaged in farming and got a
good start. Then, in 1852, he came to California, across the plains. Their party
was composed of about eighteen persons, and they had seven wagons. After a
journey of five months, they landed safe in Shasta City, in August. Six months
later they went to Colusa county, and there Mr. Tuttle at first farmed, by the
month. Then he bought land and raised barley for the Government. In 1854 he came
to Santa Cruz county. His first purchase of land was 200 acres, which, after he
had it all fenced, etc., he lost through an old Spanish title. Not discouraged,
however, in 1860 he bought ninety acres near Watsonville, which he has since
improved, and to it added eighty acres. He has also owned some desirable stock
ranches and has raised some fine stock. He is ranked with the successful men of
the county, notwithstanding the fact that he was broken up in the start through
a defective title. He laughs over it now, and says he is able to buy out all who
claimed a better title than he could prove.

  Mr. Tuttle was married in Iowa, in 1844, to Miss Mary A. Pardoe, a daughter of
Rev. John and Susan (Lotspeich) Pardoe. Their children are as follows: Dr. Hiram
P., of Tacoma, Washington; Susan, wife of Sheldon Allen; Owen S., a stock-raiser
of Santa Cruz county; Mary, wife of Sidney Menasco; and Frank G. and Schuyler,
butchers, Watsonville.

  In politics Mr. Tuttle is a Republican. He was chosen by a large majority to
represent his county in the Legislature in 1878, to form the new constitution.
He has taken a lively interest in educational matters, and has not only given
his children good education, but has given them all a comfortable start in life.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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