BIOGRAPHIES
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Source:
History of Western Reserve
by Harriet Taylor Upton
Vol. II
Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company
1910
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MARTIN ADAMS TUTTLE
- Painesville and Lake county have always been Republican strongholds in
the Western Reserve, notwithstanding which, Martin A. Tuttle, for
years a strong Democrat, is now serving his third term as city solicitor
- a fact which constitutes a tribute to his professional and personal
character. Previous to assuming the practice of law in 1898, he
had made a fine record as an educator, especially as an organizer
of township schools, and the later portion of his career as a lawyer has
been signalized by his stanch advocacy of local option. Mr.
Tuttle enjoys the advantages both of pronounced individual ability
and of fine family connections as regards the founding of the Western
Reserve as the source of much of the strong and progressive character
which has always attached to Ohio as a member of the Union. His
earliest American ancestors were drawn from England and genealogically
connected with the wife of Jonathan Edwards, of Massachusetts,
and Governor English, of Connecticut. His
great-grandfather, Joseph, brought his family from the old Bay
State to Palmyra, Portage county, in 1870, his overland journey taking
him through Painesville, which then contained little more than two frame
houses and "The Little Red Tavern." The great grandparents
afterward returned to New York, where they died, but Joseph, the
grandfather, when far advanced in years, located on a farm in Concord
township, Lake county, re-established the family in the before named
section of the Western Reserve, where he died in 1884, a man of
comfortable means and an earnest, outspoken radical on the anti-slavery
side of politics. His son, Grandison Newell Tuttle, was
reared on his father's farm in Concord township, which was his
birthplace Mar. 20, 1837. After obtaining a preliminary education
in the neighborhood district school and at Orwell Academy, he taught for
a number of years and then commenced the study of law, graduating in
1862 from the Union Law College, Cleveland, and commencing practice at
Willoughby, Lake county, where he resided until 1869, when he moved to
Painesville to occupy the probate judgeship. He continued thus for
two terms, and has made a noteworthy record as an independent
politician, an advocate of Prohibition, and a Democrat of the Bryan
school. (The details of his life and work will be found
incorporated in a separate biography, published elsewhere.)
Martin Adams Tuttle was born at
Willoughby, Lake county, on the 12th of March, 1869, and is a son of
Judge Grandison N. and Elizabeth A. (Wilder) Tuttle, who is
descended from an old New England family, born at Vernon, New York, Feb.
27, 1834. A few months after his birth, the family moved to
Painesville, that the father might assume the duties of probate judge,
and in the public schools of that city the boy was trained in the
elementary branches. In 1888 he graduated from the local high
school; completed his course in Adelbert College of the Western Reserve
University in 1892, and spent the succeeding year in studying law with
his father. In the fall of 1893 Mr. Tuttle entered a
sophomore class of the Western Reserve Law School, and during that year
not only continued his law course, but carried on post-graduate studies
at Adelbert College, in history, economics and philosophy. In
June, 1894, he was granted the degree of Master of Arts and also passed
the state bar examination at Columbus and was admitted to practice in
the courts of Ohio. In the summer of 1894 Mr. Tuttle
accepted the position of superintendent of schools for Painesville
township, and as the work occupied but a portion of his time, in the
fall of 1894 he assumed the superintendency of the Willoughby township
schools, carrying along the duties of his dual office until June, 1898.
His work in the township schools was largely along the lines of
systematic organization, in which educational specialty Mr. Tuttle
so proved his practical ability that largely through the result of his
labors every township in the county adopted similar plans of
reorganization. For several years he also served as member and
secretary of the board of trustees of the Painesville Public Library,
and was one of the incorporators and has been a continuous member of the
board of trustees of he Painesville Hospital Association.
In June, 1898, Mr. Tuttle withdrew from his
official connection with the townships schools and has since given the
bulk of his attention to the practice of his profession, although at one
time he had quite an interest in a local business embracing insurance,
abstract and real estate matters. Previous to 1896 he had been
independent in politics, but in that years became an ardent supporter of
William J. Bryan, and has since acted with the Democratic party
in national political issues. Although his county and legislative
district is overwhelmingly Republican, he has frequently consented to
become a candidate for various offices on the party ticket, and in the
case of the city solicitorship of Painesville his earnestness, ability
and strong personal popularity have carried him into office and
maintained him there, despite the general status of politics. In
1903, after a very heated campaign, he was elected to that office on a
non-partisan ticket, and has since been twice returned without
opposition, although Painesville is normally Republican by a majority of
two to one. In 1908 Mr. Tuttle demonstrated his moral
bravery and sturdiness by taking a most active part in the advocacy of
local option in Lake county, in this being an able assistant of Judge
Tuttle, his independent and respected father.
On Sept. 3, 1902, Mr. Tuttle married at
Painesville, Miss Florence Abigail Allen, a graduate of the city
high school and later a student at Lake Erie College. She is a
daughter of Horace W. and Tamzin M. (Churchward) Allen, of
Painesville, her father dying in 1891 and her mother being still a
resident of that city. The Allen Family came to Ohio from
Rutland, Vermont, and has among its historic ancestors General Ethan
Allen. The maternal family of Churchwards is of English
origin and was transplanted from Devonshire to the Western Reserve about
1830. Mrs. Tuttle's great grandfather, Harvey Woodworth,
was twice treasurer of the Lake county, being well known at Painesville
as an early-day contractor and builder of the old court house, the jail,
National Bank building and several of the old-time business blocks.
Mr. Woodworth was also widely known throughout the county for his
liberality and public spirit, being remembered with special gratitude
for his part in the erection of the soldiers' monument at Painesville,
to which he contributed a large portion of the funds. Mr. and
Mrs. Martin A. Tuttle have become the parents of the following
children: Margaret Acenath, born Nov. 21, 1903; Charlotte
Irene, born May 11, 1905; and Allen Grandison Tuttle, born
June 14, 1907, all natives of Painesville.
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Source:
History of the Western Reserve, Vol. 3 - 1910 - Page 1044 |
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