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to other important associations he had
formed and to enter into other enter-
prises, which proved profitable to all con-
cerned. He succeeded his brother, Miles
A. Tuttle, as director of both the ^Etna
Insurance Company of Hartford and the
Farmers' and Mechanics' National Bank
of Hartford, and remained on those
boards for thirty-seven years, performing
faithful and efficient service.
In addition to his business interests,
which were many and varied, Mr. Tut-
tle took an active interest in other departments
of the life of the city, namely, relig-
ious and philanthropic work, in social
circles and in military circles, in all of
which he was prominent and influential.
He was a member of Christ Episcopal
Church of Hartford, serving as warden
and vestryman, and a teacher in the Sunday
school. He was a member of the
board of directors of the Hartford Hospital
and the Retreat for the Insane, and
auditor of the accounts of both these in-
stitutions. He held the rank of lieuten-
ant in the Governor's Foot Guard, was a
member of the Veteran Association, and
a member of the Hartford Volunteer Fire
Department. He was a staunch adher-
ent of the principles of the Republican
party, but never sought or held public
office. He was a member of the Hartford
Horticultural Society, the Connecticut
Agricultural Society, the Hartford Club
and the Piscatorious Club of Hartford.
He devoted considerable time to the
study of history and astronomy ;
his favorite
novelist was Sir Walter Scott and
his favorite poet was James Russell
Lowell.
Mr. Tuttle married, November i, 1838,
Sarah Ramsey, of Hartford, a daughter of
Jonathan and Sarah (Allyn) Ramsey, of
Hartford, and a descendant of Hugh
Ramsay, the pioneer ancestor, who was
a resident of Londonderry, New Hamp-
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shire, in 1720. As early as the year 1200
the Ramseys or Ramsays were well
known in Scotland, and through various
collateral lines the present members of
the family can trace their descent from
many of the greatest kings of antiquity,
both in France and England. The Ramsey
coat-of-arms is thus described : An
eagle displayed sable, beaked and membered
gules. Charles on the breast with
an escutcheon of the last. Crest : A unicorn's
head couped argent, maned and
honored or. Motto : Spernit pericula vir-
tus.
Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle were the par-
ents of four children: Sarah, deceased;
Catherine, deceased; Grace, died Janu-
ary 31, 1883; and Jane, a resident of
Hartford, where she is a prominent figure
in the Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, and in the Connecticut
Society of the Daughters of Found-
ers and Patriots of America.
SIMON, Scott Howard,
Company Executive, Factory Manager.
Scott Howard Simon, treasurer and
general manager of the Carlyle Johnson
Machine Company, of Manchester, Con-
necticut, has made creditable progress in
the business world, and in a short space
of time, seeing that he is still in his thirties.
And his advancement is all the more
noteworthy in that it has come by outstanding
merit only. He was born on
November 8, 1879, in Youngstown, Ohio,
the son of Frank Fusselman and Lena
Hauser (Hanni) Simon, the former an
agriculturist of Poland, Ohio, where he
was born in 1854, and the latter, April
1, 1858, of Flint Hill, suburb of Young-
town, Ohio. Scott Howard Simon is the
eldest of four children born to his par-
ents, the others of his generation being:
Meta, deceased ; Samuel Louis, born Jan-