BIOGRAPHIES:  P. N. TUTTLE, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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**Posted for informational purposes only - submitter is not related to the
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P. N. Tuttle, liveryman, Pepin, was born in New York, September 10,
1837.  His parents were P. N. and Frances (Hicks) Tuttle.  In 1840 he
removed with his parents to St. Catherines, Ontario, where his father
died in 1842.  Soon after the family removed to London, and thence to
Hay, Ontario.  After the death of his father his mother married
Thomas Twells, in Ontario.  In 1851 the family came to Pepin, where
Mrs. Twells died, May 2, 1883, aged seventy-seven years.  Our subject
began life at thirteen years of age as a farm laborer and teamster. 
His schooling was limited to eight months, which he received after
coming to Pepin.  In 1856 he went to Read's Landing, Minn., where he
worked for four years, then returned to Pepin and bought a farm on
section eighteen, township twenty-three, range fourteen, which he
still owns.  June 24, 1860, he married Miss Sarah E. Howard, and to
them have been born the following children:  Cornelia J., born
September 6, 1862, now Mrs. A. A. Steel, Rock Falls, Ill.; Oliver S.,
March 3, 1864; Jerusha F., September 22, 1867, died September 12,
1877; James M., April 26 1869, died September 26, 1877; Minnie Belle,
January 23,1873; Ivadell, November 1, 1879; Paphiras N., November 21,
1882; Jay, November 26, 1889.

In 1867 Mr. Tuttle moved with his family to the village of Pepin,
and has since that time kept a livery stable.  In 1877 he builst a
ferry-boat (Belle of Pepin), which he sold in 1883.  He lived in
Lansing, Iowa, from 1880 to 1883, since when he has lived in Pepin. 
Mr. tuttle is an honored member of the A. O. U. W., and is a
republican in politics.  He has been school treasurer, constable,
street commissioner and supervisor.  January 14, 1892, he started for
Portland Ore., to spend the winter.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the
Chippewa Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 507.


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