Yolo County Biographies


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JOHN ASHBY TUTT
 
JOHN ASHBY TUTT, retired, and a resident of Madison, Yolo County, California, is 
an old �49er, and one who has held various offices in the State.  He was born 
February 4, 1815, in Fauquier County, Virginia, the son of John and Elizabeth 
(Ashby) Tutt.  His father, a native of Culpepper County, Virginia, was a 
merchant and farmer, and his mother was a native of Fauquier County, same State.
            The subject of this sketch left his native State for Missouri in 
1835 and remained in that State fourteen years, where he first engaged in 
teaching school and after in merchandise.  In 1849 he came overland to 
California, arriving August 5.  He tried mining for a short time, but meeting 
with no success he left for the city of Sacramento, where he was appointed 
Assessor of real estate by the city fathers.  At the first election after the 
organization of the county, he was elected Constable, a very important and 
lucrative office, which he held four years.  He filled several minor offices.
            In 1863 he again tried the mines with former success.  In 1869 he 
was appointed chief clerk at the State prison, where he remained three years.  
He again tried mining, in Arizona, with his usual luck.  He then came to Yolo 
County, California, where he has since been retired from public business, 
excepting that of Justice of the Peace.
            He is a member of the Grand Lodge of Masons of the State of 
California.  He was the first Deputy Grand Master of that (Colonel John D. 
Stevenson being the first) and the second Master of said Grand Lodge.
            In St. Louis, Missouri, in the year 1844, Mr. Tutt married Maria L. 
Lewis, who died in 1862 in Sacramento, as an effect of the great flood of that 
year.  They had no children, and since then Mr. Tutt has remained unmarried.  He 
is a man of high standing in the community, well deserving the peaceful evening 
of life upon which he has entered.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by:  Wendy Sandino