Franklin Tuthill

Dr. Franklin Tuthill (April 3, 1822 – August 27, 1865) was an American physician, newspaper editor, and politician.

Life

Tuthill was born on April 3, 1822, in Wading River, New York, the son of Nathaniel Tuthill and Clarissa Miller. His brother was lawyer, assemblyman, and judge James H. Tuthill.^[1]

Tuthill graduated from Amherst College with an A.B. in 1840 and an A.M. in 1843. He received an M.D. from New York University. He practiced medicine in Southold from 1844 to 1851.^[2]

Tuthill served as town superintendent for five years. In 1850, he was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Whig, representing the Suffolk County 1st District. He served in the Assembly in 1851. He returned to the Assembly in 1859, representing the Kings County 7th District as a Democrat.^[3]

In 1851, Tuthill moved to New York City, where practiced medicine for about a year. He then began working as city news editor of The New York Times under H. J. Raymond.^[3] In 1859, he moved to San Francisco, where he worked as an editor for the San Francisco Evening Bulletin. He bought an interest in the newspaper in 1862.^[4] He also began writing The History of California, which covered California's history from its discovery to the Civil War. He finished writing the preface and reading the proof sheets less than a week before he died.^[1]

In 1847, Tuthill married Emma Harriet Horton. Their daughter was Anna Elizabeth, who married William Redin Woodward.^[1] He was a Presbyterian and was a lay representative of the Long Island Presbytery in two General Assemblies.^[3]

Tuthill died in Brooklyn on August 27, 1865, a few weeks after returning to America from a European trip he took for health reasons.^[5] He was buried in the Old Burying Ground of the First Presbyterian Church in Southold.

References

1. White, Willis H. (March 2003). "Using Uncommon Sources to Illustrate Family History: A Long Island Tuthill Example" (PDF). National Genealogical Society Quarterly (91): 5–18 – via Orange County California Genealogical Society.
2. Johnson, Henry Clark, ed. (March 1888). The Tenth General Catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Bethlehem, P.A.: The Comenius Press. p. 71 – via Google Books.
3. Murphy, William D. (1859). Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1859. Albany, N.Y.: C. Van Benthuysen. pp. 234–236, 252 – via Google Books.
4. Shuck, Oscar T., ed. (1870). Representative and Leading Men of the Pacific. San Francisco, C.A.: Bacon and Company. pp. 425–431 – via Google Books.
5. "Obituary – Dr. Franklin Tuthill" (PDF). The New York Times. Vol. XIV, no. 4344. New York, N.Y. 28 August 1865. p. 5.

External links

• The Political Graveyard
• Franklin Tuthill at Find a Grave

New York State Assembly
Preceded by David Pierson	New York State Assembly Suffolk County, 1st District 1851	Succeeded by Henry P. Hedges
Preceded by George W. Bleecker	New York State Assembly Kings County, 7th District 1859	Succeeded by George H. Fisher