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Yale University, whence he was graduated
B. A., class of 1877. He registered as a law
student in the office of Judge Hammersly,
of Hartford, entered Yale Law School,
and in 1879 was awarded the degree LL.
B. He began practice in Hartford at
once, having as a partner F. Walworth
Smith. The firm, Smith & Andrews, continued
about eighteen months, Mr. Andrews
then going to Bristol, Connecticut,
there practicing with Willis A. Briscoe
under the firm name of Andrews & Briscoe.
About one year later Mr. Andrews
returned to Hartford and entered into a
law partnership with Charles H. Briscoe,
father of his late partner. The firm of
Briscoe & Andrews continued in successful
practice until January 1, 1894, when
it was dissolved by the appointment of
Mr. Andrews as reporter of the Supreme
Court of Errors. This position he has
held continuously during the twenty-
three years which have since intervened.
He is the author of Index Digest of Connecticut
Reports, 1883 ; Connecticut In-
dex Digest, 1895; i s a contributor to the
Yale Law Magazine ; contributed to the
Memorial History of Hartford County;"
is a member of the American Bar Associa-
tion, Connecticut State Bar Association,
Hartford County Bar Association, Hartford
City Bar Society, trustee of the Con-
necticut Institution for the Blind, trustee
of the Connecticut branch of the George
Junior Republic, member of the Munici-
pal Art Society, Yale's famous Senior Society,
Scroll and Key, Asylum Hill Congregational
Church, Hartford Golf, Mus-
ical and University clubs of Hartford, a
founder and ex-president of the last
named, Graduates Club of New Haven,
Yale Club of New York City, and in polit-
ical faith is a Republican.
Mr. Andrews married Julia Lincoln
Ray, of Chicago, daughter of Charles H.
Ray, for several years editor of the Chicago
"Tribune."
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TUTTLE, William Frederick,
Active in Community Affairs.
William Frederick Tuttle, whose name
was prominently identified with the
growth and development of the city of
Hartford, of which he was a native, and
who was preeminently a man of affairs,
making his activities subserve the double
end of his own ambition and the public
welfare, was a worthy representative of
the Tuttle family, so widely known in
the State of Connecticut, and he inherited
in marked degree the excellent character-
istics of his forefathers, characteristics
that make for progress and advancement.
William Frederick Tuttle, son of Samuel
and Betsey (Hotchkiss) Tuttle, was
born in Hartford, Connecticut, April 8,
1812, and his death occurred there, Feb-
ruary 22, 1895. His preliminary education
was acquired in a school conducted
by Miss Rebecca Butler, and this was
supplemented by a course of study in a
literary school conducted by Mr. George
Patten, from which he graduated at the
age of fifteen years. His first employment
was as clerk in his father's store, in
which he was admitted to partnership in
the firm, which conducted business under
the title S. Tuttle & Sons, dealers in gro-
ceries, grass seed, gypsum and grind-
stones, making a specialty of the latter
commodity. The business grew to large
proportions, was conducted on strictly
honorable lines, and therefore the profits
far exceeded the expectations of the mem-
bers of the firm. After the death of the
elder partner and founder of the firm,
Samuel Tuttle, which occurred in 1850,
the business was continued by the three
sons of the founder, William Frederick,
Miles Ammi and Samuel Isaac Tuttle,
and upon the death of Miles Ammi Tuttle,
eight years later, Frederick William
Tuttle then withdrew from the concern.
This gave him the needed time to attend