KuFUS TuTTLE was born at Woodbury, Conn., April 2, 

 1806. He was a lineal descendant of Nathaniel Tuttle, who 

 (according to Cothran's History of Woodbury, Conn.) settled 

 in that town in 1680, and died August, 1721. The emigrant was 

 William Tuttle, who came from England, landed at Boston, 

 1635, and moved to New Haven, Conn., 1639. He was the 

 eldest of two sons and three daughters of Thaddeus and 

 Susannah (Booth) Tuttle, both natives of the same place as 

 himself. 



His father was a farmer by occupation, and died in the year 

 1815. The mother and children, left without much means of 

 support, met their lot with a will that succeeds, *'the boys" 

 doing all they could for the support of the family. The 

 children, by necessity, had no opportunity for education from 

 books, yet through the kindness of their minister, an Episco- 

 palian clergyman, learned the rudiments of an English edu- 

 cation. 



At the age of twenty he started into business for himself 

 without capital, except willing hands to do whatever would 

 turn an honest penny. 



On borrowed capital he started as a peddler, which he 

 continued for a few years, when upon going into the State of 

 Pennsylvania the lumbering business opened to his view, and 

 he began rafting lumber down the Delaware to Philadelphia 

 and other markets. After about eight years in this business, 

 by a very heavy freshet he unfortunately lost his entire stock 

 of lumber, valued at several thousand dollars, and was again 

 financially where he began years before, except he had gained 

 much experience. 



With undaunted perseverance, and fixed resolve to succeed 

 (not uncommon with young men of his day), he then started 

 as a dry-goods peddler along the southern tier counties of New 

 York, where, by strict attention to business, he accumulated 

 sufiicient means, so that at the end of two years he was enabled 

 to start business for himself, which he did in 1837 as a dry- 

 goods merchant at Almond, Allegany Co., N. Y. There he 

 remained^ for three years, when, on account of the death of 



his brother in Harford, Pa., he disposed of his business in 

 Almond, and took charge of and settled the quite extensive 

 mercantile business of his deceased brother. In October, 1842, 

 he came to Hornellsville, where he purchased some real estate, 

 and for several years gave his attention to its improvement, 

 and erected several substantial residences thereon. In this 

 business, and as a private broker, he was engaged until his 

 death, Oct. 28, 1874. 



Mr. Tuttle was a man of correct habits, plain and un- 

 assuming, temperate, industrious, and possessed of strict in- 

 tegrity in all his business relations. In his earlier life he was 

 a member of the Democratic party, but soon after the forma- 

 tion of the Kepublican party became a supporter of its princi- 

 ples, and was strongly attached to the Union cause during the 

 war of the Kebellion. 



He was married Dec. 1, 1831, to Ann Lester, of Mount 

 Pleasant, Wayne Co., Pa. His wife only survived her mar- 

 riage one year, leaving a son, Kufus W., who died at the age of 

 twenty-eight, at Shoals, Martin Co., Ind., where he had been 

 engaged in civil engineering on the line of the Ohio and 

 Mississippi Kailroad. 



For his second wife he married, Jan. 23, 1837, Millinda, 

 daughter of Col. Harry Mumford, of Mount Pleasant, Pa 

 She was born March 18, 1815. Their children are Russell M. 

 and Carrie, who both reside at Hornellsville. The son, Kussell 

 M. Tuttle, received a collegiate education, graduating from the 

 University of Rochester in 1862. A few weeks subsequently 

 (Aug. 13), he enlisted in the 107th Regiment New York Vol- 

 unteers. He was appointed 1st sergeant, and promoted (Janu- 

 ary, 1863) to 2d lieutenant, and (July, 1864) to 1st lieutenant. 

 He was brevetted captain United States Volunteers March 13, 

 1865. He served as Assistant Adjutant-General on staff of 

 Gen. T. H. Ruger, and as Topographical Engineer on staff of 

 Gen. W. T. Ward, in 20th Army Corps. Mr. Tuttle com- 

 menced the publication of the Canisteo Valley Times at Hor- 

 nellsville, N. Y., in 1867, of which he is still one of the editors 

 and publishers. 



