Biographical Sketches

ARTHUR TUTTLE

ARTHUR TUTTLE belongs to an influential pioneer family of Montana, one that came originally from England and established its home on the shores of the United States in New York.  Arthur Tuttle was born in his parents' home at Fishcreek in Jefferson County, Montana, March 22, 1874, and as a business man and citizen is proving worthy of the name he bears, one of the oldest and most influential in this section of Montana.  From the rural schools near his boyhood's home he entered the State Agricultural College at Bozeman the same year the institution was established, 1893, and remained there as a student for one year.  From that time until 1895 he was employed on the home farm, then for two years worked for his uncle, James Gordon, on his ranch in Madison County, returning at the close of that period to the home farm and remaining there until appointed deputy treasurer under his father, a position he also filled for two years and for a similar period served as the deputy under County Treasurer E. W. Burdick, afterward serving as an extra man in the courthouse until July, 1906.

At that time Mr. Tuttle embarked in the banking business as an employe [sic], in the Bank of Boulder, starting in at the very bottom of the business and gradually working his way up to the position he now occupies, that of assistant cashier.  He has adopted the political faith of his father and votes with the democratic party.  He ia a member also of the Methodist Episcopal Church and one of its official board, and belongs to Boulder Lodge No. 19, Knight of Pythias, and is a past chancellor commander.  He also belongs to Basin Aerie No. 874, Fraternal Order of Eagles.  At the present time he is serving as clerk of the Town Council.

At Butte, Montana, in March, 1908, Mr. Tuttle was married to Miss Adeline Jacques, who was born in France but was reared and educated in the United States.  She died at Boulder in 1911.  Mr. Tuttle has an adopted daughter, Garnet, who is a student in the Montana Deaconess School at Helena.  The Tuttle home is a modern residence in Boulder.

Source: Transcription from the book, Montana: It's Story and Biography, volume III, edited by Tom Stout, published in 1921; located on the website, Hathitrust Digital Library (http://www.hathitrust.org), accessed 5 June 2022.

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