Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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fs I My ggrmeneremry Sosa a ah BRON Farrand Cuttle, 2.B., LL. B. 18h2-1892 The third president of Wabash, Dr. Joseph F. Tuttle, took official charge in May, 1862. He came just before the Civil War at a time when the college was suffering serious financial difficulties. Despite the loss of many students due to the war Wabash prospered during his thirty years of administration, so that when he died the college had an endowment fund of $500,000 and was enjoying a high reputation among the colleges of the middle west. Dr. Tuttle was born in Bloomfield, N. J., March 12, 1818, the son of a pastor. His early education was received in the schools of Newark, which he left at the age of fourteen to go to work on his uncle’s farm in Ohio. He spent four years on the farm, and liked farming so well that he had practically decided to make it his life work. One day when he was eighteen years old one o f his brothers who had graduated from Princeton came to visit him, and Dr. Tuttle was so charmed by the intellectual superiority of his brother that he decided to go to college himself. In 1836 he began his studies at Marietta College, from which he graduated with highest honors in 1841. He began his theological studies the same year at Lane Seminary under Dr. Lyman Beecher. Three years later he was licensed as a Presbyterian minister. Dr. Tuttle began his career as a minister in Delaware, Ohio, where he remained only until 1847. At that time he accepted a call to the church of his wife’s father in Rockaway, N. J. Here he worked for fifteen years until he became president of Wabash. His church grew; he acquired an increasing experience of life; and he made a name for himself in both the religious and secular world by his numerous contributions to magazines and by the publi- cation of several books. Two years before he assumed his duties at Wabash he was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity by his alma mater, Marietta College. From Rockaway, Dr. Tuttle came to the presidency of Wabash College, where he remained until his death. The school prospered. He was accorded two more honors in the years 1884 and 1885 when he was made a member of the “Societv of Cincinnatus” and was given the Doctor of Laws degree by Marietta College. In 1892 he retired from active participation in the work of the college, though he continued to conduct the Monday morning chapel exercises almost until his death, Tune 8, 1901. Page Fourteen The contrast between the settlement of our own great Western domain, and the early settlements of New England and Virginia, is very wide. The latter were effected only by slow degrees, their growth was very gradual; the former especially of the newer States, has been, with a rush and rapidity unknown in the history of emigra- tion. Hfforts to plant and sustain institutions of learning and religion were demanded in a corresponding ratio.

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From the Portrait by Lucile Stevenson Dalrymple approved, and a liberal subscription was commenced to carry forward the enterprise. A tract of fifteen acres of land was presented by Hon. Williamson Dunn, upon which, the Trustees having selected the site for a building, in the forest, in the midst of nature’s unbroken loveliness, consecrated this enterprise for the furtherance of virtue and knowledge among mankind, to God, and solemnly invoked upon it the Divine Blessing.

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From the Portrait by Lucile Stevenson Dalrymple The prime movers in this new enterprise were fully aware it would require not only present immediate effort, but continued perse- vering, untiring exertions. That the means requisite to carry it for- ward would be very considerable, even in its incipient stages. But they adopted as their motto the noble sentiment of the venerated Carey, “What ought to be done, can be done’. Having settled the question that the interests of neligion and the general good of the country demanded an Institution of the kind, they fully believed that