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Note: Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925:
". . . . .HARRIET HOYT TUTTLE, the wife of JOSHUA BAILEY MORGRIDGE, came to Ohio with her father, AZOR TUTTLE, soon after the death of her mother, SARAH HOYT, which occurred at New Canaan, Connecticut, in 1835, and located on a beautiful farm along the river near Dublin, Ohio, where there was a settlement of New England people. She was carefully educated at the Academy at Worthington and taught school until her marriage in 1852, when she went to live at Hickory Grove Farm on the Darby Plains. Her education proved a blessing in that raw and undeveloped country where there was no graveled roads, no telephone and certainly no Ford, movie or radio. Instead came the ail at irregular intervals with its papers and periodicals from New England brought from Pleasant Valley by horseback and read aloud by Mrs. Morgridge to family and neighbors in the evenings. It is remembered that she had a gift for reading Shakespeare, and was found of playing whist. Mrs. Morgridge was descended from WILLIAM and ELLIZABETH TUTTLE, who came to Boston in the good ship Planter in 1635 and were among those who established the settlement of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1639. The Tuttle homestead became the site of Yale College in 1717. JONATHAN EDWARDS and the late BISHOP TUTTLE, are notable descendants of this line. Through the marriage of Mrs. Morgridge's grandfather, ENOS TUTTLE, to ABIGAIL PENNOYER, male descendants of the Morgridge family are eligible forever to the PENNOYER SCHOLARSHIP at HARVARD UNIVERSITY, established by WILLIAM PENNOYER, or Norfolk, England, in 1670. President LOWELL, of Harvard, writes: . . ."This was the first scholarship established at Harvard and I believe the first scholarship in any American university. It is still in existence and available and has often been used by descendants of ROBERT PENNOYER." Through her mother, Mrs. Morgridge, traced direct descent from several men who were active in founding and forwarding the interests of the colonies in very early times, among whom were SIMON HOYT, FRANCIS BELL, REV. ABRAHAM PIERSON, ROBERT LOCKWOOD and DANIEL KELLOGG, all in America before 1650."
Note: p.245, History of Ohio, Vol. III, by Charles G. Galbreath, The American
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