Mendocino County Biographies

L. C. Tuttle

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Rockport, New 
York, April 29, 1837. When he was about four years of age his parents moved to 
Illinois, settling in Plainfield, Will county. He received his education in the 
common schools and academies of that county. He also learned the carpenter�s 
trade. In April, 1862, he with is wife started across the plains to California, 
and arrived in the Sacramento valley, October 11th of that year. He worked at 
his trade a short time when he went to farming on the Consumnes river. He then 
came to Mendocino county, and in March 1865, he settled on his present place, 
consisting of five hundred and forty acres, where he is engaged in sheep and 
stock-raising. In company with C. Bratt, he owns four thousand acres of pasture 
land, and over six thousand head of sheep in Humboldt county. In 1867, he was 
appointed postmaster at the Sherwood Valley office, being the first person to 
serve at that place. He married Miss R. Leah, May 29, 1860, a native of New 
York, born August 17, 1837. They have one child, Frederick, born February, 18, 
1863.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 590,  591