- CHARLES TUTTLE, farmer, Sec. 7; P.O. Clinton; born in Jefferson
Co., N.Y., Oct. 15, 1811;
- son of Thomas TUTTLE, whose father Solomon, was a brave soldier
in the Revolutionary war; the family were of English origin;
first settled in Connecticut, and at an early day, moved to New
York. Mr. Thomas TUTTLE was a well-to-do farmer in New York,
owning 200 acres of fine land; Charles was at home till he became
of age, and, in 1835, went to Ohio; was there till the spring
of 1836, then went to Michigan and claimed a farm; that summer,
went to Chicago, where Fort Dearborn stood, and a garrison was
posted there; was only one bridge; Beaubien kept a hotel there
then; stopped with a cousin named Kimball, who was keeping a
store on Lake street; that fall, went back to New York; returned
the same fall to Chicago, and spent the winter teaming; used
to go to Milwaukee, Rockford, Michigan City and other places;
in spring of 1837, several New York men, Mr. Tuttle among the
number, started out!
prospecting; first went to Beloit, April 1837, and, in the same
spring, he made a claim in Clinton; entered 320 acres; there
was not a house on Jefferson Prairie; the first house on the
Indian trail to Chicago was at the head of Geneva Lake; frames
of Indian wigwams were standing on his farm. Married, September,
1838, Elmina GILBERT, daughter of Roswell GILBERT; her mother's
maiden name was WHEAT; she came from a notable family of that
name that settled in Connecticut at a very early day; have had
six children - Eugene H. (enlisted in the Thirteenth Wisconsin,
and died in Kansas, at Fort Riley), Egbert (died when about 11
years old), Volney C. (married a CHAMBERLAIN, and is now in Clinton),
George F. (is in Dakota, he graduated at Milton), Marietta (married
Dr. S. M. JENKS, and is living at Grand Meadow, Moore Co., Minn.),
Thomas W. (is in the lumber business in Clinton). Mr. TUTTLE
and wife are member of the Congregational Church. Mr. TUTTLE
helped to survey what is now called West Side, Chicago, where
there are now over two hundred thousand inhabitants; it was then
mostly under water.
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- Taken from "History of Rock County Wis." (c)1879,
pp. 787-788.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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