George F. Tuttle Biography


	This biography appears on pages 664-665 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				GEORGE F. TUTTLE. 

	George F. Tuttle, actively engaged in the insurance business in 
Madison, so directed his efforts that substantial results have attended 
his labors and he now controls an extensive insurance business. He was 
born in Rock county, Wisconsin, September 22, 1850, a son of Charles 
and Elmina (Gilbert) Tuttle. The father, who was a farmer by 
occupation, resided in New York in early life and in 1837 drove across 
the country from that state to Wisconsin, becoming one of its pioneers. 
He contributed in substantial measure to the early development and 
upbuilding of Rock county. Both he and his wife are now deceased. 

	George F. Tuttle supplemented his public-school education by 
study in Beloit College and in the Milton College of Wisconsin, being 
graduated from the latter with the class of 1876. Taking up the 
profession of teaching, he was thus connected with the schools of 
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, and in June, 1878, he came to Dakota 
territory, settling in Lake county, which was then a frontier region. 
That the work of development and improvement had scarcely been begun is 
indicated in the feet that much of the land was still in possession of 
the government. He homesteaded a quarter section on section 21, 
township 106, range 53, and a tree claim covering the southwest quarter 
of section 17, township 106, range 54. For five years he engaged in 
farming, secured the title to his land and afterward disposed of it. 
Resuming the profession of teaching, he was for two years connected 
with the State Normal School at Madison, covering the period from 1887 
until 1889. He then turned his attention to the insurance business, in 
which he has since been engaged, and he has written many policies 
annually so that his business has reached extensive and profitable 
proportions. 

	On the 26th of December, 1882, Mr. Tuttle was united in marriage 
to Miss Ella Jones, a daughter of Samuel Jones, of Wisconsin, and to 
them have been born five children. Volney J., a graduate of the State 
College at Brookings, class of 1907, is an electrical engineer in the 
designing department of the General Electric Company at Schenectady, 
New York. Margaret E. has been successfully engaged in teaching at the 
Normal School at Madison for seven years. Charles, a high-school 
graduate, was drowned at the age of twenty three years, at which time 
he was an employee in the postoffice at Madison. Victor G. is at home, 
and Howard NV. is a traveling salesman in New York for the Pillsbury 
Flouring Mills Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

	The religious faith of the family is that of the Presbyterian 
church and in polities Mr. Tuttle is a progressive republican. 
Fraternally he is connected with the Odd Fellows and his life at all 
times has been actuated by high and honorable principles, which have 
guided him in every relation. In citizenship he is public-spirited and 
advocates progress and improvement at all times. In 1880 he was a 
delegate of the territorial convention, at which time Senator Pettigrew 
was nominated. His interest in educational affairs has never abated and 
for three years he has served as president of the school board of 
Madison and has been active in furthering the interests of the 
Chautauqua in his city.