Santa Barbara County Biographies

E. R. TUTT

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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E. R. TUTT, proprietor of the handsome and spacious hardware store of Lompoc, was 
born in South Bend, Indiana, in 1864. He was educated at the Notre Dame College, at 
South Bend, but left college in 1879 and went to Chicago to learn the tinning and 
plumbing trade with Craigon Bros. & Co. He was employed by this firm for eighteen 
months, but worked in the city until 1884, when he came to California, first to San 
Francisco, where he worked at his trade, and then to Ukiah, Mendocino County, where 
he worked for a while. At the end of this time he started in business, continuing until 
1886, when he was burned out, and having no insurance, lost everything. Mr. Tutt then 
came to San Luis Obispo, and after a short time again started a shop, which lie continued 
until 1888, when he sold out and went to Tulare City and bought property, but the 
climate being too hot he did not settle there, and he came to Lompoc in the fall of 1888. 
He at once located by buying city property and erecting his spacious store building, 25 x 140, 
which serves as a ware-room and shop, where he carries a full line of hardware, paints, 
oils and agricultural implements. Mr. Tutt is also connected with A. L. Hanck and Wm. 
Cantley in the lumber firm of E. K. Tutt & Co., which was established in 1889. They have a 
steam saw-mill, and also suitable machinery for jointing and moulding. 

Mr. Tutt was married in San Luis Obispo, in 1887, to Miss Emma Adams, a native of 
Oregon, and daughter of Judge Adams, of San Luis. Mr. Tutt is now erecting a hand- 
some residence on H street. He is a member of Park Lodge, No. 40, K. of P., at San 
Luis Obispo. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.