Edward D. Tuttle correspondence and reminiscences, 1834-1928

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Summary

Creators:
Tuttle, Edward D., 1834-1928
Abstract:
A collection of material related to the Arizona and California pioneer, Edward D. Tuttle.
Extent:
2.4 Linear Feet (1 box, 1 oversize folder)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Edward D. Tuttle correspondence and reminiscences, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of 21 pieces of correspondence, including nine Civil War letters and nine letters between Tuttle and two early State Historians of Arizona, James McClintock and George Kelly. The collection also includes one manuscript of Tuttle's reminiscences of the Civil War and the early years of the Arizona Territory.

Biographical / historical:

Edward D. Tuttle (1834-1928) was a soldier, miner, businessman, legislator, and California and Arizona pioneer. Tuttle was born in New York and moved to northern California sometime before the Civil War. In November of 1861 he enlisted in the Fourth Infantry Regiment of California Volunteers and was stationed as a 2nd Lieutenant of Company A at Fort Walla Walla in Washington. In August of the next year, Tuttle was promoted to 1st Lieutenant, Company H, and sent to Camp Drum, near Los Angeles. In February of 1863 he marched to what is now Yuma, Arizona. While in Yuma in 1864, he was elected to the first legislature of the Arizona Territory in Prescott. He remained in Yuma until he was mustered out of his regiment in San Francisco in November of 1865; he returned to Arizona soon afterwards, working at the quartermaster's depot at Fort Yuma until 1869, when he became an agent of the Colorado Steam Navigation Company. Also in 1869 Tuttle married Marietta L. Robinson, of Oakland, California, and brought her to Arizona. They returned to northern California in 1870, and lived there until 1877, when they and their three children relocated to the Pueblo Viejo valley in Arizona, where they helped to found the town of Safford. Tuttle owned a store in Safford and acted as clerk for several of the first judges of Graham County. In later life, Tuttle wrote out his reminiscences of life in Arizona in response to inquiries from two state historians; he also wrote a number of other manuscripts on the subject. Tuttle died in Los Angeles in 1928.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Edward B. Tuttle, April 1955.
Processing information:

Processed by Huntington Library staff in approximately 1960; in October 2024, Gayle M. Richardson created the finding aid.

Arrangement:

Arranged alphabetically.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Terms of access:

The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Edward D. Tuttle correspondence and reminiscences, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2191
reference@huntington.org
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