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Charles L. Tutt Sr.
Charles Leaming Tutt Sr. (14 February 1864 – 21 January 1909) was an American businessman, miner, and real estate investor. He and his descendants are famous in Colorado Springs. He became a wealthy man by the time he was forty years old.
Charles Leaming Tutt Sr. was born February 14, 1864, in Philadelphia, as a son of a respected doctor, Charles Pendleton Tutt, and Rebecca (née Leaming).[citation needed] His father died of typhus when the boy was two years old. The Tutt ancestors had immigrated from England.[citation needed] One ancestor had served as Lord Mayor of London and another was a member of General George Washington's staff during the American Revolutionary War.[citation needed]
Tutt attended the Protestant Episcopal Academy, where he met Spencer Penrose, nicknamed "Speck", and the two became friends.[citation needed] Both of their fathers had worked at the Children's Hospital.
Penrose, one of six sons in a well-to-do Philadelphia family, attended Harvard University. Tutt's family struggled after his father's death, and the youth quit school at an early age. He began work as a clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad to help support his family.
He migrated west, landing in North Platte, Nebraska, where he lost $500 in a business venture. He moved to Black Forest, El Paso County, Colorado, where he bought a cattle ranch in 1884. In 1885, Tutt sold two cows to earn the return fare to Philadelphia. He married his fiancée Josephine Thayer on 29 December 1885, daughter of Martin Russell Thayer and his wife. Her father was a jurist who had served in President Abraham Lincoln's administration.
She returned with him to Colorado. A year after moving to the Black Forest ranch, Josephine convinced her husband to sell out and move to Colorado Springs to start a real estate and insurance business. Together they had four children, but three died young. Their son Charles L. Tutt Jr. (January 9, 1889 – November 1, 1961) was the only one to survive into adulthood.
He was the first owner of the Tutt Building in Pueblo, Colorado, built in December 1890.
The Tutt family lived at 611 North Weber Street. They had a two-story gingerbread house, with a combination barn and buggy shed in the rear. Tutt's one-room business office was at 14 East Pikes Peak Avenue in the city. After opening a branch office in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1890, Tutt visited Cripple Creek, walked up "Poverty Gulch," and stake a gold mining claim. Once the claim was staked, a prospector with half interest in the mine, sold his half interest to Tutt for $50. Tutt owned the"Cash on Delivery" (C.O.D.), but had no money to develop it. Tutt, together with C. Findley and A. Carlton, all big players in the future of the mining district at Cripple Creek, set up the C.O.D. Gold Mining Company, incorporated on February 26, 1892, as a Colorado corporation. Later that year, geologist Richard Penrose, his friend Spencer's brother, travelled through Colorado Springs, where he met with Tutt. He asked him to write to Spencer and encourage him to relocate to Colorado Springs for its business opportunities.
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Charles L. Tutt Sr.
Charles Leaming Tutt Sr. (14 February 1864 – 21 January 1909) was an American businessman, miner, and real estate investor. He and his descendants are famous in Colorado Springs. He became a wealthy man by the time he was forty years old.
Charles Leaming Tutt Sr. was born February 14, 1864, in Philadelphia, as a son of a respected doctor, Charles Pendleton Tutt, and Rebecca (née Leaming).[citation needed] His father died of typhus when the boy was two years old. The Tutt ancestors had immigrated from England.[citation needed] One ancestor had served as Lord Mayor of London and another was a member of General George Washington's staff during the American Revolutionary War.[citation needed]
Tutt attended the Protestant Episcopal Academy, where he met Spencer Penrose, nicknamed "Speck", and the two became friends.[citation needed] Both of their fathers had worked at the Children's Hospital.
Penrose, one of six sons in a well-to-do Philadelphia family, attended Harvard University. Tutt's family struggled after his father's death, and the youth quit school at an early age. He began work as a clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad to help support his family.
He migrated west, landing in North Platte, Nebraska, where he lost $500 in a business venture. He moved to Black Forest, El Paso County, Colorado, where he bought a cattle ranch in 1884. In 1885, Tutt sold two cows to earn the return fare to Philadelphia. He married his fiancée Josephine Thayer on 29 December 1885, daughter of Martin Russell Thayer and his wife. Her father was a jurist who had served in President Abraham Lincoln's administration.
She returned with him to Colorado. A year after moving to the Black Forest ranch, Josephine convinced her husband to sell out and move to Colorado Springs to start a real estate and insurance business. Together they had four children, but three died young. Their son Charles L. Tutt Jr. (January 9, 1889 – November 1, 1961) was the only one to survive into adulthood.
He was the first owner of the Tutt Building in Pueblo, Colorado, built in December 1890.
The Tutt family lived at 611 North Weber Street. They had a two-story gingerbread house, with a combination barn and buggy shed in the rear. Tutt's one-room business office was at 14 East Pikes Peak Avenue in the city. After opening a branch office in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1890, Tutt visited Cripple Creek, walked up "Poverty Gulch," and stake a gold mining claim. Once the claim was staked, a prospector with half interest in the mine, sold his half interest to Tutt for $50. Tutt owned the"Cash on Delivery" (C.O.D.), but had no money to develop it. Tutt, together with C. Findley and A. Carlton, all big players in the future of the mining district at Cripple Creek, set up the C.O.D. Gold Mining Company, incorporated on February 26, 1892, as a Colorado corporation. Later that year, geologist Richard Penrose, his friend Spencer's brother, travelled through Colorado Springs, where he met with Tutt. He asked him to write to Spencer and encourage him to relocate to Colorado Springs for its business opportunities.