ministry. He studied theology privately and was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church, first as a presiding elder, then as a deacon. His last ordination was in Columbus, Ohio, in 1843. He joined the Presbyterians in 1853, uniting with Salem Presbytery. He was then living in Richland, Ohio, and afterward preached in Delaware, Ohio. His health prevented him from preaching regularly, and he was without any particular charge for fourteen years previous to his death. He removed to Berrian Springs, Mich., in the bounds of Kalamazoo Presbytery, where he died Feb. 26, 1866, of an affection of the kidneys. His widow survives him. He was a good preacher, earnest in his efforts to do good. He bore his long-continued ill-health with becoming patience and Christian resignation. His father was a Baptist minister. John Jerufskum. TOMPKINS, JOHN-The son of James and Eunice (Torver) Tompkins, was born in Vernon, N. Y., in 1810. He was educated in Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., class of 1837, and studied theology in Auburn Seminary, N. Y.; licensed by Utica Presbytery and ordained by Cayuga Presbytery in 1842, and installed as pastor of the Presbyterian church in Marcellus, N. Y. This was his only charge. For a quarter of a century he went in and out before this people, fulfilling his duties as their pastor and their friend. Preparations were being made to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his settlement among them, when he suddenly died, Aug. 15, 1866. It was so sudden that many came to the church where he was to have delivered his anniversary address before they learned that his lips were silent in death. Instead of the festive occasion which was contemplated, and for which the church was handsomely decorated, his people came together at the appointed hour to mourn over their sudden bereavement. At this meeting, so changed in its purpose, remarks were made by Revs. S. W. Brace, of Utica; A. K. Strong, of Syracuse: I. F. Kendall, of Baldwinsville; and Levi Parsons, of Mount Morris, N. Y. Suitable resolutions were also passed by the congregation, expressing a deep sense of their loss in being called to part so suddenly with their good pastor, their high appreciation of his character as a man and a minister, and their tender sympathy with his family. He married Miss Cornelia Kilbourne, who, with four children, survives him. Rev. H. P. BOGUE, of Buffalo, N. Y., writes as follows: "He was a man of most sterling worth. After completing an apprenticeship at tanning and currying, in which he acquitted himself most honorably, he spent a few months with Dr. Thomas Williams, the man of whom he learned his trade, as a journeyman currier, earning money to aid him in acquiring and education. While thus employed, such was his skill and efficiency that he earned and received twice the wages of an ordinary currier. He continued thus employed till he had laid aside four or five hundred dollars. He then commenced fitting for college. He was here as industrious as he was at his trade. During vacations he again put on his currying dress and earned about as much as he had spent during term-time; and this he did not only while fitting for college, but during most of his college life, so that when he graduated he had not only met by his earnings the entire expense of his education, but he had money on hand to aid him in the future. After a three years' course at Auburn, he was licensed to preach the gospel; and soon he was called to the pastoral office in the Presbyterian Church of Marcellus, N. Y. When he became a minister, as might be expected, he was already inured to great industry and economy. These habits continued with him through life. Prompt, energetic, faithful, he discharged every duty at the proper time. As a scholar he was more than respectable. As a preacher he was not brilliant, but sound, accurate, instructive and earnest. As a pastor, faithful, kind, prompt and fearless. As a presbyter patient, influential and wise. As a friend affectionate, faithful and trustworthy. As a citizen respected, beloved, and ready always to meet personal responsibilities. As a husband and a father he was kind, affectionate and judicious, and no man doubted his sincere and genuine piety. He was the pastor of one congregation for a quarter of a century, and died in his pastorate greatly beloved and lamented by all who knew him. Icecob Tuttle TUTTLE, JACOB-Second son of Joseph and Esther (Parkhurst) Tuttle, was born at New Vernon, Morris county, N. J., Aug. 24, 1786. His elder brother, William, for many years was an elder in First Church, as well as editor in Newark, N. J., and his twin sister, Mrs. Eliza D. Ward, still survives. His ancestors were pious and plain people, and among the earliest settlers of Morris county. His mother, a truly pious woman, died when he was too young to remember her, and his father when he was in his sixteenth year. He was apprenticed to learn the carpenter trade in Mendham, N. J., thus enjoying the ministry of Dr. Amzi Armstrong. A few years ago the writer of this met a lady in Pennsylvania, who said that Jacob when an ap prentice had frequently walked four miles after his day's work was done to cut up the wood for a poor widow in the village without pay. He was very assiduous in his studies during leisure hours, attaining great accuracy in them. Dr. Armstrong encouraged him to begin the study of the languages, which he did, reciting to the doctor. In 1808 he united with the Mendham church, and soon after entered Bloomfield Academy, N. J., about that time almost as famous as Princeton, N. J. It was his design to enter the ministry, and accordingly in 1812 or '13 he was examined for admission to the junior class of New Jersey College, Princeton, N. J., and was admitted, but his straitened circumstances forbade his going forward, and he returned to Bloomfield. His acquaintance with his classical studies was so thorough that when he was seventy years old he read and construed many of the textbooks readily. Indeed his memory was so accurate that when he was nearly eighty years old he learned the entire Epistle to the Hebrews with his Bibleclass, repeating chapter after chapter with great fluency. The Shorter Catechism he could repeat, questions and answers, to the very last of his life, with a multitude of Scripture passages and Watts' Psalms and Hymns. When on his deathbed, a beautiful octogenarian, he was wont to repeat the Scriptures from memory, and sing the hymns with perfect cheerfulness, as if his chamber were the vestibule of heaven. On the 22d of August, 1814, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Ward of Bloomfield, who still survives him. For a time his attention was turned to secular business, but the war suddenly closing involved him and his brotherin-law in disaster. He soon after began to study theology under Dr. Arm strong, who became principal of Bloomfield Academy in 1816. In 1817 he removed to Newton, Sussex county, N. J., and taught the academy until the spring of 1820. On the 27th of April, 1820, he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Jersey at Morristown. David Magie* and William B. Barton were licensed at the same time The same spring he was called to be pastor of the West Milford church in Passaic county, N. J., and removed his family to that place. August 14, 1821, he was ordained and installed pastor of the church, and continued there until October, 1832, when the Presbytery dissolved the pastoral relation to allow him to remove to Ohio. For four years he labored with little apparent success. Intemperance was blasting all that was fair in that beautiful valley, and he was about to give up in discouragement, when, in 1825, a remarkable seriousness was seen in his congregation. He could neither preach nor visit anywhere without the evidence of God's presence. As the fruit of this, about eighty were received into the church, the most of them in one day-a marvelous day in that little church. The converts with little exception "ran well," and he often met some of them at the West. Perhaps about 1828 or '29-it was after the public reading of Dr. Beecher's six sermons, resulting in a great temperance reform in the valley-there was another great revival, and in the spring of 1832 still another of extraordinary power, bringing large numbers into the church. Both he and his devoted wife, a lady of rare excellence and intelligence, visited every house and cabin for miles in every direction, and their names are still held in great veneration in the region of their abundant labors. In 1832 Mr. Tuttle removed to Ohio and engaged successfully in home missionary labors, planting several churches, and everywhere honored as a true man of God. His piety was of a cheerful kind, and it made him a very welcome visitor in the houses of his hearers, and especially in the sick-room. A few years before his death he retired to Jersey, Ohio, and there spent the close of life, occasionally preaching and engaging in other Christian labors. A little more than a year before his death he received an injury which caused him great pain. Up to this time he had been a hale, active man, whose quick step and bright looks excited general notice. His last year was one of rich spiritual enjoyment, and only a day or two before he died he was heard singing as cheerfully as a child the Psalm "My spirit looks to God alone; On the 6th of January, 1866, he entered into rest suddenly, in the eightieth year of his age. He had five children-the Rev. Samuel Lawrence Tuttle, who died the following April; the Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, D.D., president of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind.; Mary, the wife of Hon. Matthew Long of the Iowa State Senate; James Richards Tuttle, admitted to the bar in Ohio, but forced to the farm by ill health; and Margaret Esther, who died in 1840, aged fourteen years. Mr. Tuttle was not a great preacher, but he was clear, earnest, scriptural and tender, full of concern for his hearers and honored of God above many who have occupied more conspicuous posts in the abundant success which attended his labors. The Rev. Dr. Cox, who was in Bloomfield Academy A memoir of DAVID MAGIE, D.D., is published in The Presbyterian Historical Almanac for 1866, pp. 128-132. with him, wrote the following beautiful eulogium on him and other members of the old Jersey Presbytery who "had passed into the heavens:" "The obituary in The Evangelist touching the character of the late Rev. Jacob Tuttle, also several places and persons memorably connected with him and myself, as I well recollect, from 1811 to 1820, I read with tender and subdued feelings, real and great gratification, and if with some spiritual and joyous advantage, glory to God alone! Several names were brought to my cordial recollection, such as the excellent and exemplary Dr. Barnabas King of Rockaway,* one of the best men of God, I think, ever known by me, as well as wise, assiduous, symmetrical, useful, whose name should never die in all that indebted region of his useful ministry, especially in Rockaway! "The history and the commendations of our worthy brother Tuttle command my most sincere sympathy and approval. I remember him well, also that elect lady, his blessed surviving counterpart, the day of their marriage; and almost wish I could as fully endorse the eulogiums on the dead, in instances more conspicuous, now becoming so censurably_common! "I have often thought that the old Presbytery of Jersey was one of the most excellent and worthy that I ever knew. The Rev. Dr. Richards, Rev. brothers Dr. McDowell,† Dr. Griffin, Dr. Fisher, Dr. Ogden, Dr. Hillyer, Dr. King, Dr. Armstrong, Rev. John Ford, A. M., and numbers of others-now mostly in that better world! Men of God, whose example, influence, usefulness and evangelical beneficence ought to be posthumously dear, very precious, monumental too; in the gratitude especially of all generations where their devoted services were enjoyed! I owe personally much, especially to some of them! Oh that all our country, every place in it, were favored with such able ministers, such sincere workers, such nobles of the realm of God, such rare ministerial worthies of the kingdom as they were! Their theological differences were occasionally identified, as they were real. Yet they all seemed wisely and well to know and ever to feel that the things in which they were all, heart and soul, engaged and agreed were so much greater; so many more in number; so comparatively far more considerable; so practically important and in common recognized, especially when all were most alert and devout and engaged in trying to bring souls to Jesus, that he might be glorified and that they might be saved; that really they were examples of worth, as rare-must I say? as excellent in the eyes of the universe, and even before our ever-glorious and all-perfect Father in the heavens, as can be found probably in these days in any place on the globe! Few of them yet remain. I am glad to know that my dear brother, Rev. Jacob Tuttle, is so well remembered and replaced by his excellent sons, Rev. Dr. Tuttle of Wabash College especially, and I ask them and others to accept from my pen and heart this spontaneous tribute of my sincere esteem, my sympathy, my Christian congratulation, my sincere love in the Lord, who bought us with his own blood! I just add, that I well remember the scene in 'Martin Brown's Barn,' and could tell several particulars in addition, were this proper here, in my already extensive 'note,' as I at first intended it. How evanescent, fragile is our life; With cares and crosses clustering in our way; * A memoir of BARNABAS KING, D.D., is published in The Presbyterian Historical Almanac for 1863, page 303. Memoirs of JoHN and WILLIAM MCDOWELL, D.D., are published in The Presbyterian Historical Almanac for 1861, page 175. THE THRONE OF GRACE remember every day; We'll echo-LET US PRAISE HIM, while we stay; As when we fly to that thrice-blessed land Where praises speak our gratitude-scarce waiting His command ?” Samuel L. Tut TUTTLE, SAMUEL LAWRENCE-Eldest son of Rev. Jacob Tuttle and Elizabeth (Ward) Tuttle, was born at Bloomfield, Aug. 25, 1815. In childhood and youth he was marked by great amiability and by the ready obedience he rendered to his parents and teacher. It was rarely necessary to chastise him. When about nine years old he was sent to Bloomfield Academy, boarding all the time with his unmarried uncle and aunt. He was not at first remarkable for quickness in his studies, but very thorough. The late Rev. Albert Pierson of Orange was at this time the principal of the academy. About 1830 there was an extensive revival in Bloomfield, under the ministrations of the late Rev. G. N. Judd, D.D.,* and it fell with overwhelming power on the academy. Young Tuttle, then about fifteen years old, was very deeply convicted and very joyfully converted, so that at no period of his life did he seem to be in doubt as to his acceptance with God. The writer of this article now recalls the scenes of that winter with great satisfaction. At once he consecrated himself to the gospel ministry, to which his parents had devoted him when he was born. He now pushed his studies earnestly. In the fall of 1831 his uncle, William Tuttle, of Newark, N. J., took him into his family and sent him to one of the most thorough schools in the city. Whilst a member of this school it is said that the remark which he casually dropped, that "his teacher must be a strange Christian, to conduct his school without prayer, was made a signal benefit to backsliders. When he was seventeen years old his father removed his family to Ohio, leaving him in Newark to pursue his studies, his uncle generously assuming all the expenses of his education. In the spring of 1834, with his cousin, Wm. P. Tuttle (who in the summer of 1837 was drowned in Owasco Lake, near Auburn, N. Y.), he entered the sophomore class of New Jersey College, Princeton, N. J., half advanced." Here his mind rapidly developed and his class standing was high. He was especially successful as a speaker, and was repeatedly elected to represent his class and society at public exhibitions. He was appointed one of the speakers at his graduation, which took place in August, 1836. 66 He spent a year with his parents in Ohio, and was shocked by the news of his cousin's sudden death by drowning at Auburn, whither he had gone after his graduation to study theology. He never ceased to refer to this event with great tenderness, as if a brother had been suddenly snatched away. In 1837 he entered the Theological Seminary at Auburn, N. Y., and at once took a high position as a scholar, writer and speaker. Having completed his course he was licensed to preach the gospel Oct. 8, 1840, by Newark Presbytery. Soon afterward he was invited to supply the important pulpit of the Caldwell church, N. J., received a call to be its pastor and March 9, *A memoir of GIDEON N. JUDD, D.D., is published in The Presbyterian Historical Almanac for 1861, pp. 160, 161. |