Yolo County Biographies


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JOHN S. TUTT
 
            JOHN S. TUTT, a prosperous farmer of Yolo County, is the son of 
Philip and Catherine Tutt.  His father, a native of Culpeper County, Virginia, 
followed school teaching to 1835, and then moved to Cooper County, Missouri, 
where he was County Surveyor for sixteen years, where he died in 1871; and the 
mother, native also of Culpeper County, Virginia, died in Cooper County, 
Missouri.
            Mr. Tutt, the subject of this notice, was born in Fanquier County, 
Virginia, in 1836, and when he was nine years of age he was taken by his parents 
to Cooper County, Missouri.  In 1849 he came overland to California, reaching 
Hangtown August 15.  He followed mining there during the ensuing autumn, and 
then went to Nevada City, where he continued mining until the next spring.  
Going then to Sacramento, he had the position of turnkey of the county jail for 
a time, and then he returned to Nevada City and remained there until 1853; he 
then moved into Yolo County, where he has improved 260 acres of fine land, on 
which he raises live-stock and grain, and all the fruit necessary for home 
consumption.  He is a member of Landmark Lodge, No. 153, F. & A.M., and also of 
Madison Lodge, No. 150, O.C.F.
            In 1857, in Yolo County, he married Miss Mary E. Gordon, and they 
have six children:  Elizabeth, William L., Susan, Thomas, Hattie and Kate.
 
Source:  Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Lewis 
Publishing Co. , 1891
Transcribed by:  Betty Wilson, August 2004  �