Santa Cruz County CA Archives Biographies.....Tuttle, William D. 1821 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

WILLIAM D. TUTTLE, of Watsonville, California, was born in Washington county,
Pennsylvania, August 29, 1821, and is the oldest son of Hiram and Annie (Dille)
Tuttle, natives of Pennsylvania and New Jersey respectively. When William was
two months old his parents moved to Ohio, where he was educated in the district
schools, such as they were, and brought up to work on a frontier farm, grubbing,
making rails, chopping, etc. At the age of eighteen he went to Iowa with his
father. When he was twenty-one years old, he left home and settled on a claim
near Ottumwa. On this he remained until 1857, when he went to Johnson county,
Kansas, and bought 160 acres of land. There he farmed till 1875. That year he
came to California and located in Watsonville, where he has since remained. He
has a neat home in the town, and a fine little fruit ranch adjoining, and here
he is spending the evening of his life, surrounded with the comforts and
luxuries that this sunny clime affords. He has been a farmer all his life, and
for fifty-eight years has never missed plowing and sowing some ground. Though
now well advanced in years, he still does not feel right if he cannot plow a
small patch of ground and plant out something which he can watch grow.

  Mr. Tuttle was married November 9, 1848, to Sarah A. Rouse, a native of
Indiana, and a daughter of David and Eliza (Mansan) Rouse. Following are their
children: Milton, a butcher of Watsonville; Elizabeth A.; Mary R, wife of C. A.
Cook; and Flora B., deceased. The mother died November 28, 1888, aged fifty-nine
years. Mr. Tuttle is a highly respected citizen, and an intelligent supporter of
the Prohibition party. He has never paid a dollar for any intoxicant as a
beverage.


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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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