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and growing business, and both members
of the firm are favorably and widely
known for the excellence of their prod-
ucts. Mr. Tuthill is a Republican in pol-
itics, and for four years ably served his
constituents as selectman. He is a member
of the Benevolent and Protective Or-
der of Elks.
Mr. Tuthill married Jane Hunter,
daughter of Samuel Hunter, of Bridge-
port, Connecticut, and they are the par-
ents of a son, Charles Hunter Tuthill,
who was born July 5, 1907.
TUTHILL, Percy M.,
Business Man, Public Official.
Percy M. Tuthill, son of James Wood
and Alice A. (Durland) Tuthill (q. v.),
was born November 12, 1878, in Bridge-
port, Connecticut. In the public schools
of his native city, he received his early
education, and his first step in the world
of business was in the employ of the
American Graphaphone Company of
Bridgeport, where he remained for about
five years. He then went to New York
City, and was in the employ of Swift &
Company as a butter and egg salesman.
Thence he went to Waterbury. Connec-
ticut, and found employment as book-
keeper for the Waterbury Scrap Iron
Company. Mr. Tuthill had not yet found
work which was entirely pleasing to him,
and he did not wish to permanently set-
tle in any business until he felt that it
was his calling. Therefore, having an op-
portunity to go West, to Toledo, Ohio,
he did so and for a year or more was em-
ployed as a traveling salesman ; his ter-
ritory took him through the states of
Ohio and Michigan, and the exeperience
thus gained has been of untold value to
him. In the meantime a brother of Mr.
Tuthill, Oscar D., a sketch of whom
precedes this, had removed to Greenwich
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and engaged in a general milk distrib-
uting business. He took his brother into
partnership in this business, and the very
first day their sales amounted to one hun-
dred and eighty-nine quarts. In addition
to this they also handle large quantities
of butter and eggs. Mr. Tuthill is also a
director of the New England Dried Milk
Company, which he helped to organize.
In politics Mr. Tuthill is a Republican,
and served as a member of the Board of
Burgesses. Fraternally he is a member
of the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks.
Mr. Tuthill married Lillian Pickett, of
Bridgeport, Connecticut.
SCOFIELD, Loomis,
Leading Citizen.
In the annals of Fairfield county, Connecticut,
there is frequent mention found
of the name of Scofield and it is always in
connection with the progress and development
of the community. It is an old
and distinguished family; the surname is
derived from the localities where the indi-
viduals resided who first took this name.
Scolefield, the original form of Scofield,
literally signified a field containing small
houses or cottages, similar to those which
would be found on the estate of the early
titled English families. Through the cen-
turies this changed in form and spelling
to the present day usage, Scofield. The
progenitor of the family was Daniel Scofield,
born in the parish of Rochdale, Lan-
cashire, England. He was a grandson of
Sir Cuthbert Scofield, of Scofield Manor,
the family being of ancient and honor-
able lineage. In the reign of Queen Eliz-
abeth arms were granted to Sir Cuthbert
Scofield as a younger son of the Scofields
of Kent, who was knighted for services,
A. D. in the Spanish Armada. There are