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

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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.
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creatorOf Tuttle Family Papers - 1889-1954 HistoryMiami Museum
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associatedWith Ball, Zachary, 1897- person
correspondedWith Flagler, Henry Morrison, 1830-1913 person
associatedWith Florida East Coast Railway. corporateBody
correspondedWith Ingraham, J. E. (James E.) person
associatedWith Tuttle, Julia, 1849-1898. person
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Miami FL US
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Real property
Railroads
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Women landowners
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Active 1889

Active 1954

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