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Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio
embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. -
1893
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JAMES H. TRYON, who
resides on Waite Hill, in Kirtland township, Lake county, Ohio, is a
pioneer grape-grower in this vicinity, being one of the first to plant a
vineyard for commercial purposes in the county. He is well
informed on all horticultural subjects and has gained a wide practical
knowledge from many years of experience. He deals extensively in
all kinds of nursery stock and makes a specialty of grapes. For
over a quarter of a century he has dealt with one of the standard grape
nurseries, and is widely and favorably known.
James H. Tryon was born in the township of
Vernon, Oneida county, New York, Feb. 18, 1822, the son of Jesse
Tryon, also a native of Oneida county, and grandson of Thomas
Tryon, who was born in Middletown, Connecticut.
Thomas Tryon emigrated to Oneida county, New York, in an early day,
where he was engaged in farming for some years and where he died at the
age of eighty-five. He was a Revolutionary soldier and was taken
prisoner by the British when they had possession of New York city, and
with his comrades was confined in the old Sugar House for a time and
then was transferred to the prison ship that lay in the harbor, where he
remained until released by exchange of prisoners.
James Tryon was one of a family of
twelve children. By occupation he was a farmer. He emigrated
to Ohio in 1853, and located in Kirtland township, Lake county, where he
died in 1872, at age of seventy-nine years, his death resulting from
injuries received from being accidentally thrown out of a wagon.
He was a member of the Congregational Church. During the war of
1812 he was in the service of his country a short time before its close.
The mother of James . Tryon was before her marriage Miss Maria
Graham, who was a native of New York. Her death occurred in
1876. They had two sons, James H. being the older.
The other, Hon. Hosmer G. Tryon, came to Ohio in 1846, and
improved a farm on Waite Hill, Lake county, where he spent the rest of
his life. He was elected to the State Legislature and had just
completed serving his third term as a member of that honorable body when
his death occurred.
James H. Tryon spent his boyhood days on a farm
and received a district-school and academic education. At the age
of eighteen he went to Wampsville, Madison county, New York, where he
was employed as clerk in a store for three years. Subsequently he
clerked at Oneida and from there went to Rochester, same State, where he
made his home for several years while he was engaged as traveling
salesman. He came to Lake county, Ohio, in 1855, and settled on
Waite Hill in Kirtland township, where he soon afterward turned his
attention to fruit culture. In 1858 he set out a vineyard, it
being one of the first vineyards, if not the first, of any size in the
county. In 1862 he commenced shipping his crop of grapes, and has
continued to ship every year since. A few years after he planted
the vineyard he also set out a peach and pear orchard. For thirty
years he has handled all kinds of fruit trees, buying and selling on
orders. He has made a specialty of grapes, not only in raising the
fruit but also in selling the vines.
Mr. Tryon was married in 1848 to Louisa Hills,
a native of Madison county, New York, and they have had eight children,
three of whom died in infancy. Those living are as follows:
Louise, wife of H. O. Wells, Kirtland, Ohio; James H.,
Jr., married and living in West Bay City, Michigan; Phoebe L.,
wife of Frank Hull Omaha, Nebraska; Edmond H., a merchant
of Willoughby; and George W., of New York city.
When he reached his majority Mr. Tryon first
voted with the Liberty party. He was afterward a Free-Soiler, and
is now a Republican. He, however, gives little attention to
political matters. Mrs. Tryon is a member of the
Congregational Church.
Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio -
embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page 264 |
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JUDGE GRANDISON NEWELL
TUTTLE is a well-known attorney of Painesville, Lake county,
Ohio. He is a native of the county, having been born in Concord
township Mar. 20, 1837. He comes of one of the pioneer families of
Northeastern Ohio and of New England stock. His paternal ancestors
emigrated from England to the New World in 1635, and settled first in
Massachusetts and afterward in Connecticut, where many of their
descendants still reside. The family, from any early time, has
been connected with some of the most distinguished people of New
England. The wife of the celebrated New England divine,
Jonathan Edwards, was of his family, and the mother of Elihu
Burritt was of the same family. Governor English of
Connecticut and many other men of note, including college professors and
other distinguished citizens, have claimed kinship with the family,
while, of course, the more numerous portions of the family have occupied
only the more humble stations in life and among their fellow-men.
John Tuttle, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch,
was a native of Connecticut, and was a wheelwright and carpenter by
trade. In 1759 he removed with his family to Sunderland,
Massachusetts, where he died some years afterward, at about the age of
sixty years. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war.
His son, Joseph Tuttle was born at Lebanon, Connecticut, Aug. 31,
1756. This Joseph was the grandfather of the Judge.
His boyhood and early manhood were passed in Massachusetts, and her he
married and soon after emigrated to the State of New York. His
first wife was Lovisa Mack, a daughter of Captain Mack, of
Sunderland, Massachusetts. She died some years after her marriage,
leaving no children. Her sister was the mother of Joseph Smith,
the founder of Mormonism, and after her son became distinguished as the
leader of the new faith, she removed with him to Kirtland, Ohio, and,
learning that a son of her deceased sister's husband was living in the
vicinity, tried to interest the Judge's father, who then lived at
Concord, Ohio, in their family; but he had so poor an opinion of the
Mormon faith that he took no interest in making an acquaintance with a
family who had at one time been connected in marriage with his father.
After the death of his first wife, which occurred about 1793 or 1794,
Mr. Tuttle married for his second wife Hannah Messenger, a
daughter of Isaac and Anna Messenger, formerly of Simsbury,
Connecticut. In 1807 he emigrated with his family to the Western
Reserve, locating at Palmyra, Portage county, where he arrived Aug. 12,
and where his brother, John Tuttle, had lived for more than two
years. The journey was made with two joke of oxen, a span of
horses and a wagon, and occupied forty-eight days. The country
through which they passed was mostly one great wilderness, and settlers
were few. Indians were met with in considerable numbers at several
places along the route; they were, however, at that time entirely
peaceable. West of Buffalo the roads were scarcely worthy of the
name, and the party traveled much of the way along the beach of the
lake. The Judge's father, then a boy of eleven years, made the
journey with his family and retained to the end of his life a vivid
recollection of the journey and its incidents. They passed through
Painesville, where they stopped over night at what was then called "The
Little Red Tavern," which was situated on what is now State street, a
few rods south of the Episcopal Church. The village then contained
only two frame houses. Soon after his arrival at Palmyra, Mr.
Tuttle purchased sixty acres of land, about half of which had been
improved, on the road leading from Palmyra to Deerfield.
Privations incident to a new settlement had to be
endured. Provisions of nearly all kinds were scarce, and salt,
which had to be brought over the mountains on pack-saddle, was worth
from $3.50 to $4 per bushel. Mr. Tuttle was not contented
in his Western home, and in 1809 sold his farm and went back to New
York, where he died May 13, 1816. His second wife, Hannah,
had died four years before, and the family, of which Joseph, the
father of the Judge, was the oldest, being thus deprived of both
parents, had little to depend upon but the kindness of neighbors.
The father of the subject of this sketch, Joseph Tuttle, was born
in Bridgewater, Oneida county, New York, May 10, 1796. Early in
life, as we have already seen, he was thrown upon his own resources.
His opportunities for an education were very limited, a few months,
covering all the time that he ever spent at school. After the
death of his parents he made his home for several years with his
maternal grandparents, the Messengers. They also were of
the Revolutionary stock of New England, the grandfather and six of his
brothers having taken part in the war of the Revolution, and three of
the number being present at the battle of Bunker Hill. Although
far advanced in life, in 1817 they removed with their grandson,
Joseph Tuttle, to Lake county, Ohio, the journey being made in
sleighs. In March, 1818, Mr. Tuttle bought 120 acres of new
land in what is now Concord township, Lake county. Here he rolled
up a small log cabin, in which he lived until 1820 with his
grandparents, when he was able to build a more pretentious log-house.
On Jan. 2, 1823, he was wedded to Mary Adams, widow of Martin
Adams, Jr., and daughter of Moses and Mary Kibbee, of
Barkhamstead, Connecticut. In 1833 he erected a frame house, which
he occupied until his death, which occurred April 20, 1884.
He was a man of strong physical constitution, vigorous
and active mind, keen observation and retentive memory. These did
much to make up for his want of school opportunities. He was an
easy and pleasing conversationalist, and was widely acquainted in the
vicinity, where he had many stanch friends; yet he was a man of
decidedly outspoken opinions, determined in supporting whatever he
believed to be right, and earnestly and firmly opposing whatever he
thought to be wrong. He was one of the earliest anti-slavery men
in this part of the State, and many times fed and aided fugitive
slaves on their journeys to Canada, by the way of the once famous
underground railroad.
In his early manhood he had been a Henry Clay
Whig, and later was a radical anti-slavery Republican. He had
various local offices, and was a man highly respected by his
acquaintances generally. In his old age he was fond of relating
the incidents of his pioneer life.
Joseph Tuttle is the youngest of his four sons,
all of whom are still living in Lake county. A sister, Mrs.
Harriet A. Kibbee, and youngest of the family, died in Painesville,
Mar. 19, 1887. All of the family have proved worthy and
respectable citizens, and have the general esteem and good will of the
community in which they reside. Judge Tuttle was reared on
his father's farm and received such education as the common school of
his district could afford. He attended school during the winter
months, laboring upon the farm with his father and brothers during the
remainder of the year, until he had passed his eighteenth birthday.
In the fall of 1855 he went to school a term at the Orwell Academy, then
conducted by Professor Jacob Tuckerman. The ensuing winter
he taught the district school in the "Governor Huntington
district." For the next three years he spent his time in attending
academic and select schools and in teaching. In April, 1861, he
entered the State and Union Law College at Cleveland, Ohio, of which
Judge Chester B. Hayden was president, and Professors King,
Elwell and others were teachers. In June, 1862, he graduated
and was soon after admitted to the bar of the State and United States
Courts at Cleveland. The next year he taught school again.
In the fall of 1863 he opened an office and began the practice of law at
Willoughby in his native county, where he resided until the fall of
1869, when he was elected Probate Judge of the county, and removed to
Painesville. This office he filled with so much satisfaction to
the people that he was twice re-elected without opposition, being the
first in the county to hold the office for more than two terms.
His home has always been in this county, where he is still in the
practice of his profession. In politics Judge Tuttle was a
Republican until 1876, when he supported Peter Cooper, the
candidate of the Greenback party for President.
He continued to act with this party and with the Union
Labor party until 1888, since which time he has cast his lot with the
Prohibitionists. He has always taken great interest in political
matters; has been very independent in his opinions and in making choice
of his party connections; has never studied the question of numbers, or
the prospect of political success, being guided simply by what he
believed to be politically right. Even while he was connected with
the Republican party he always asserted the right of independent action
whenever he thought any of the candidates of the party unsuitable or
unworthy of the confidence of the people. During the candidacy of
General Garfield for congress in 1874, in his district, the Judge
was one of his most earnest opponents. His opposition, however,
was purely political, and arose from his convictions that General
Garfield's official acts had not been in harmony with the best
interests of the people in general.
In 1878 the Judge was himself a candidate for Congress
on the Greenback ticket, and received a vote considerably larger than
that of his party. During his campaign he made a large number of
speeches upon political issues, speaking not only in his own district
but in other parts of the State, and was regarded by the members of his
party as presenting their views in the most able and efficient manner of
any man in his part of the State. In 1884 Judge Tuttle was
named as a candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court of the State by the
Union Labor party, and received a full vote of that party throughout the
State. In 1891 he was a candidate for Judge of the Common Pleas
Court on the ticket of the Prohibition party, which nomination was
indorsed by the Democratic and Populist parties of the district.
In 1892 he received the nomination of the Prohibition party of his
district for Congress, and received considerable more than the full vote
of his party for that office. He has always been a strong advocate
of temperance, and of the rights of the laboring and industrial classes.
He regards temperance reform as intimately connected with labor and
finance reform, and believes that the saloon must be deprived of
political control before monopolies and trusts can be overthrown.
He, therefore, regards the temperance question as the most important and
the leading question in politics to-day before the American people, and
has no faith in any system of temperance legislation or temperance
reform that does not look for the final prohibition and abolition of the
saloon and saloon traffic.
Judge Tuttle was married Dec. 24, 1861, to
Miss Lizzie A. Wilder, of Willoughby, Ohio. She was the
daughter of Joel D. and Clarinda A. Wilder, and was born in
Vernon, New York, and is a descendant of an old New England family.
Mr. Tuttle and wife are the parents of four children:
Carlos G., who died Mar. 1, 1875, aged seven years; Martin A.,
born Mar. 12, 1869, who is a graduate of Adelbert College and is now
(1893) a law student in his father's office; Mary C., who was
born Feb. 7, 1875; and Walter S., who was born Mar. 15, 1877.
Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio -
embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake Chicago: The
Lewis Publishing Co. - 1893 - Page
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