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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 193 nection with his father a flock of 0000 sheep, is quiet and unassuming in his business deportment, but is one of Manti's men of tried integrity and honesty. 5UTTLE, LUTHER, was born near Council He is a son of John 11. and Sabra A. The family came to Manti in 1852. Luther was raised to farm work and when he grew up he took up and bought land and now has 210 acres of of Manti, Bluffs, Iowa, Julv 10, 1849. land near Manti. For the last thirteen years he has followed woolgrowing, in which he has been very successful, and now has 3000 head of fine sheep. Mr. Tuttle is an enterprising, shrewd business man and usually takes a leading part in any business enterprise started in the town. When the Central Utah Wool Company was organized in 1S91 he became one of the directors and has since attended to the buying of hides and wool for the company. He is a stockholder in the Manti City Sayings Bank and a member of the A. O. U. W. In * 1894 he opened a harness store in the Tuttle Block and placed his son, Luther E., in charge. They do a large business and manufacture a fine line of harness, saddles, etc. He was married in Manti January 3, 1870, to Emily, daughter of Frederick W. and Emeline Cox, who was born near Fort Laramie August 8, 1852, while the family were enroute by ox team to Utah. Their children are: Luella, Luther E., Roscoe C, Lawrence, Frederick, John, Burt<m, Edward, Lloyd and Maud. tine SUTTLE, HON. LUTHER T., a prominent merchant, banker and stock dealer of Manti, is a natiye of NewYork, born November 19, 1825. His father was a shipbuilder by trade and died when Luther was but fourteen months old, leaving three sons and one daughter, of which the subject of this sketch is the youngest. Both brothers are now residents of Manti. When he was 12 years of age his mother haying joined the church of Latter-day Saints, the family moved to Missouri and the same year Luther went, to live with his uncle, a hotel-keeper in St. Louis. In 1846, when the |
