. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. 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 Su
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. 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
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