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of coininissioiiers to revise the laws of tlio state, 1878-81; was U.S. district attorney, lSS(j-S7; a delegate-at-large to the Democratic national con- vention of 18*^8, and wiis elected to the U.S. s.-nate as a Democrat in 1887, and re-elected, 189:?. serving till Marcii 3, 1899. He was chairman of the committee on the censns and a member of the foreign relations, privileges and elections, and other committees.

TUTTLE, Daniel Sylvester, tliinl bishop of Missouri an.l 84th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Windham. Greene county, N.Y.. Jan. 2(>, 1837; sou of Daniel Bliss and Abigail Clark (Stim.son) Tuttle; grandson of Charles Tuttle, who removed from Wallingford, Conn., to New York state, and Sarah (Bliss) Tut- tle. and of Ephraim and Polly Stimson, and a descendant of William and Elizabeth Tuttle of New Haven, Conn., who landed from the Planter at Boston about the first of July, 1G35, from Eng- land. He atteiKled the public schools of Wind- ham and the Delaware academy, Delhi, N.Y., and was graduated from Columbia college, A.B., 1857, A.M., 1860, and from the General Theolo- gical seminary, N.Y'., in 18G2. He was admitted to the diaconate by Bishop Horatio Potter, Jan. 29, 1862, and advanced to the priesthood in Zion churcli. Morris, N.Y"., July 19, 1863, and was pas- tor of Zion church, 1863-67. He was married, Sept. 12, 1865, to Harriet Minerva, daugliter of George Lewis and Minerva (Tuttle) Foote of Morris, N.Y. He was appointed missionary bishop of Utah, Idaho and Montana, and was cortsecrated in Trinity chapel. May 1, 1867, by Bishops Hopkins, Potter and Odenheimer, as- sisted by Bishops Randall, Kerfoot, and Neely. He declined the bishopric of Missouri in 1868, but upon the death of Bishop Charles Franklin Robertson. May 1, 1886, he was again elected bishop of Missouri, and Sept. 1, 1886, was trans- ferred to that diocese. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Columbia in 1866 and that of LL.D, by Washington univer- sity. St. Louis, in 1898.

TUTTLE, Herbert, journalist, educator and author, was born in Bennington, Vt., Nov. 29, 1846; .son of diaries J. and Eveline (Boynton) Tuttle. and a descendant of William Tuttle, who arrived in Boston in 1635 from England, and moved to New Haven in 1638. "The Tuttle family i.s of old English origin, and derives its name from Tothill or Totehill, signifying Look- out Hill, an eminence or high i)la(;e of observa- tion." Herbert Tuttle was graduated from the University of Vermont, A.B., 1869; was assistant editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, 1869-71, and after spending the year 1871-72 in Paris as student and correspondent, went to Geneva to report the session of the Alabama Claims to the


New York Tribune. In 1872 he settled in Berlin, Germany, where he served as correspondent of the London Daily News, 1872-79, and contributed to the Manchester Examiner, the Glasgow Jlerakl, the Nation, and the New York Tribune. He was married, Julj' 5, 1875, to Mary McArthur, daughter of James H. and Eliza Jane (Trimble) Thompson of Hillsboro, Highland county, Ohio. He also continued the study of international law and political and historical subjects while abroad, and upon his return to the United States was lecturer on international law at tiie University of Michigan, 1881-82; and non-resident lecturer on the same at Cornell university, 1882-83, with which latter university he was connected as as- sociate professor of the history and theory of politics and of international law, 1883-87, as pro- fessor of the history of political and municipal institutions and of international law, 1887-90, at the same time giving instruction in English con- stitiitioual history, and as professor of modern European history, 1890-94. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by the Univer- sity of Vermont in 1880, and that of L.H.D. in 1889. He was a member of the American His- torical society; the American Copyright league, the Societe pour L'Histoire Diplomatique, and other learned societies. While in Berlin, he wrote: German Political Leaders (1876) , and also, having access through Count Von Moltke to the archives of Prussia, gathered materials for his History of Prussia to the Acession of Frederick the Great, 1734-1740, and its continuation, Histonj of Prussia under Frederick the Great, 1740-1757 (4 vols., 1884-96, the fourth volume, published posthumously, containing a biography of the author). He also contributed articles on po- litical and historical subjects to the Fortnightly Revieio, Atlantic Monthly, and other periodicals. His death occurred, June 21, 1894.

TUTTLE, Hiram Americus, governor of New Hampshire, was born in Barnstead, N.H., Oct. 16, 1837; son of George and Judith Mason (Davis) Tuttle; grandson of Col. Jolin Tuttle and great- grandson of John Tuttle who .settled in Barn- stead in 1776. His first ancestor in America, John Tuttle, emigrated from England prior to 1641, and settled at Black River, Dover, N.H., and liis maternal ancestor, Samuel Davis, was a sol- dier in the Revolution, and one of the first set- tlers in Barnstead. Hiram removed with his father's family to Pittsfield, N.H.,in 1846, where he attended the public schools and Pittsfield academy; obtained employment in a clotiiing store at Concord, N.II., in 1854, and later was given charge of a branch .store in Pittsfield, and increased the business until it ranked among the largest in the state. He was married in 1859 to Marv C, daughter of John L. French of