Tuttle - Joseph Farrand - 1921 - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Joseph Farrand Tuttle died in Denver Colorado Jan 3, 1921, where he had been living since 1886, and where he was married shortly after becoming a resident there. He left a widow but no children. He was born at Delaware, Ohio August 20, 1846, being the oldest of the four children of Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, DD and Susan King Tuttle, his father having been for 30 years president of Wabash College, having succeeded Charles White as president, coming to Crawfordsville from Rockaway, New Jersey in 1862. Dr. Tuttle's personality lent charm and dignity to his every relation during that long administration. Of the four children a younger brother, Arthur, died some years ago. He is survived by his two sisters, Katherine, the widow of Rev. EB Thomson, DD who live sin Los Angeles, and Josephine, the widow of Dr. Charles L. Thomas who lives in Crawfordsville. Mr. Tuttle graduated in Wabash Collge class of 1867. There were 11 in that class to graduate and Farrand Tuttle, as he was familiarly called, was the last survivor of that class. He was a member of the Greek fraternity Beta Theta Pi. He graduated in the Harvard law school in the year 1872 or 1873, and was a classmate therein of Judge Thomas R. Paxton of Princeton, now one of the trustees of Wabash College. During this course in the law school they contracted a close friendship which continued until the time of Mr. Tuttle's death. He was a Mason and Knight Templar, also a member of the American Colonial Wars and Sons of the American Revolution, and a member of the Society of the Cincinnati by inheritance from his father. Farrand Tuttle was a radiant and genial soul and attracted warm and sympathetic friends wherever his lot for the time was cast. His literary tastes were of a high order. He was especially a lover of the Concord coterie of writers, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, George Ripley and others, and found inspiration in the sermons and writings of that notable English divine, Frederick William Robertson of Brighton, England. During his residence in Denver as well as before Mr. Tuttle was frequently called upon to deliver addresses on literary and other subjects. He had a lecture on Lincoln which he was called upon to deliver on notable occassions in different places, sometimes under the auspices of the GAR and American Colonial wars. Throughout his life Mr. Tuttle was a great lover of music, both vocal and instrumental and was long a member of the choir of Center Church. In his going there is a pathetic sadness with his old friends in Crawfordsville. Interment will be in the family lot besides his father and mother in Oak Hill on the arrival of the body presumably within the next two or three days.