Tuttle (Family : Tuttle, Julia, 1849-1898)

The Tuttle family and its founder Julia Sturtevant Tuttle were influentian in the city of Miami Florida. Julia was the daughter of Ephraim Sturtevant, a Florida planter and state senator. She married Frederick Leonard Tuttle on January 22, 1867. They had two children: a daughter, Frances Emeline (b. 1868), and a son, Henry Ethelbert (b. 1870). Julia Tuttle first visited the Biscayne Bay region of southern Florida in 1875 with her husband, visiting a 40-acre (16 ha) orange grove her father had purchased. Just as Tuttle is called the Mother of Miami.