WILLIAM D. TUTTLE, of Watsonville, California, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1821, and is the oldest son of Hiram and Annie (Dille) Tuttle, natives of Pennsylvania and New Jersey respectively. When William was two months old his parents moved to Ohio, where he was educated in the district schools, such as they were, and brought up to work on a frontier farm, grubbing, making rails, chopping, etc. At the age of eighteen he went to Iowa with his father. When he was twenty-one years old, he left home and settled on a claim near Ottumwa. On this he remained until 1857, when he went to Johnson county, Kansas, and bought 160 acres of land. There he farmed till 1875. That year he came to California and located in Watsonville, where he has since remained. He has a neat home in the town, and a fine little fruit ranch adjoining, and here he is spending the evening of his life, surrounded with the comforts and luxuries that this sunny clime affords. He has been a farmer all his life, and for fifty-eight years has never missed plowing and sowing some ground. Though now well advanced in years, he still does not feel right if he cannot plow a small patch of ground and plant out something which he can watch grow.

Mr. Tuttle was married November 9, 1848, to Sarah A. Rouse, a native of Indiana, and a daughter of David and Eliza (Mansan) Rouse. Following are their children: Milton, a butcher of Watsonville; Elizabeth A.; Mary R, wife of C. A. Cook; and Flora B., deceased. The mother died November 28, 1888, aged fifty-nine years. Mr. Tuttle is a highly respected citizen, and an intelligent supporter of the Prohibition party. He has never paid a dollar for any intoxicant as a beverage.

Son of Hiram and Anne Tuttle

Husband of Sarah Rouse

Father of Milton, Elizabeth, Mary and Florence