Tuttle, Jacob

Tuttle, Jacob a Presbyterian minister, was born at New Vernon, Morris Co., N.J., Aug. 24, 1786. He was educated at the Bloomfield Academy, N.J.; studied theology privately; taught at the Academy at Newton, Sussex Co., N. J., from 1817 to 1820; was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New Jersey April 27, 1820; ordained and installed pastor of the West Milford Church, Passaic Co., Aug. 14, 1821; and removed to Ohio in 1832, where he engaged in home missionary labors, planting several churches, and was everywhere honored as a true man of God. He died Jan. 6, 1866. He was a successful minister, full of concern for his hearers, and honored of God. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1867, p. 324.