Yolo-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Tutt, John Ashby 1815 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

JOHN ASHBY TUTT, retired, and a resident of Madison, Yolo County, California, is
an old '49er, and one who has held various offices in the State. He was born
February 4, 1815, in Fauquier County, Virginia, the son of John and Elizabeth
(Ashby) Tutt. His father, a native of Culpeper County, Virginia, was a merchant
and farmer, and his mother was a native of Fauquier County, same State.

  The subject of this sketch left his native State for Missouri in 1835 and
remained in that State fourteen years, where he first engaged in teaching school
and after in merchandise. In 1849 he came overland to California, arriving
August 5, He tried mining for a short time, but meeting with no success he left
for the city of Sacramento, where he was appointed Assessor of real estate by
the city fathers. At the first election after the organization of the county, he
was elected Constable, a very important and lucrative office, which he held four
years. He filled several minor offices.

  In 1863 he again tried the mines with former success. In 1869 he was appointed
chief clerk at the State prison, where he remained three years. He again tried
mining, in Arizona, with his usual luck. He then came to Yolo County,
California, where he has since been retired from public business, excepting that
of Justice of the Peace.

  He is a member of the Grand Lodge of Masons of the State of California. He was
the first Deputy Grand Master of that (Colonel John D. Stevenson being the
first) and the second Master of said Grand Lodge.

  In St. Louis, Missouri, in the year 1844, Mr. Tutt married Maria L. Lewis, who
died in 1862 in Sacramento, as an effect of the great flood of that year. They
had no children, and since then Mr. Tutt has remained unmarried. He is a man of
high standing in the community, well deserving the peaceful evening of life upon
which he has entered.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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