THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 35. JUNE, 1906. No. 6 



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A. G. TUTTLE, BARABOO, WIS., 

 Died July 25, 1905, Aged 90 Years. 



(This biography was prepared by Franklin Johnson, Baraboo, 

 Wis., for the Wis. State Hort. Society, and will appear in the next 

 annual report of that society.) 



A. G. Tuttle, one of the charter members and one of the early 

 presidents of tlie Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, was born 

 Dec. 30, 1814, in Watertown, Conn., hence was a native of that 

 "Litchfield County" famed as the birthplace of ]\frs. Harriet Beech- 

 er Stowe and other members of the illustrious Beecher family. 

 The very air was surcharged with the love of liberty and the 

 hatred of slavery. Air. Tuttle, in the enthusiasm of his young man- 

 hood, became an ardent abolitionist. Before attaining his ma- 

 jority he made abolition speeches, and under the direction of 

 \\ illiam Lloyd Garrison he assisted in editing a little abolition paper. 



At the early age of nineteen he went to Xew York City to take 

 charge of a large wholesale store, being recommended for the 

 position by Seth Thomas, the renowned maker of clocks. After 

 a year or two of strenuous but successful work in this store, his 

 failing health compelled him to returi] to his home in Connecticut. 



In 1838 he was married in Xorthfield, Conn., to Miss Elizabeth 

 F. Clark. Their first home was in Xew Haven, where Mr. Tuttle 

 had again engaged in mercantile business. 



In the autumn of 1846 he came to Wisconsin, stopping awhile 

 in Madison, then going to Portage, where he conducted the first 

 store ever run in Portage. 



In the spring of 1848 he moved to Baraboo, where in the autumn 

 he was joined by his wife and son, whom he had left in Connecticut. 

 For several years he was engaged in trade, but in 1854 he pur- 

 chased the farm which was his home for more than fifty years. 

 He planted an orchard and became enthused with a love of fruit 



