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Note: Short Bio: Edwin Ewing Tuttle was born in Louisville, Kentucky on July 24, 1853. He was named with his father's middle name, Edwin, and after General Thomas "Ewing" of Mexican War fame. He was Stiles' and Martha's first son and child. They were residing on the corner of Market and Jefferson St. In 1856, shortly after his brother Walter Stiles was born, the family moved to Springfield, Illinois. Later that same year the family moved to Clinton, Wisconsin. At the age of 11 after his 2nd sister, Carrie was born the family moved to Hastings, Minnesota. While growing up in Hastings he was educated by a private tutor and in the public schools and early in life displayed the keen intellect and sound judgment that later qualified him for leadership in many of the enterprises, with which he was associated.
After completing his education Edwin engaged in farming for many years, but during this time he also developed many other interests one of which was a grain and feed business in partnership with S. N. Greiner, located in South Hastings. He was first married in 1874 to Miss, Eva Frank, daughter of Hiram Frank and a sister of Jesse Frank of Hastings
In 1898 Edwin was elected mayor of Hastings. In 1901 during his second term he resigned to accept the Hastings post mastership which he held until July, 1914. He was a member of the council committee that formulated plans for the famous Hastings spiral bridge (crossing the Mississippi) and also played an active part in the organization of the St. Paul Southern Electric Co., (a trolley line) of which he was a stockholder and director for many years. In 1915 he was elected mayor of Hastings again, this time serving for two years. When the St. Paul Southern Electric Co. went into receivership in 1919 and after Mr. A. R. Walbridge, who had been appointed receiver and died shortly afterward, Edwin took over the duties of that office.
Edwin and Eva retired from their farm in Marshan Township and for several years they resided on a smaller farm in South Hastings, adjoining the state hospital property. After the death of his wife Eva in 1925 and following the abandonment of the trolley line in 1926, Edwin retired from public life. Edwin continued to live very quietly at their residence on 15th and Ramsey St, Hasting, which he had built in 1911. He never lost contact with public affairs or his keen interest in the development and welfare of the city he knew and loved so well.
In Mar of 1927 he married Sarah Bottomley, daughter of Joseph W. and Mary Bottomley. They lived in the 15th and Ramsey house until Edwin died in Jan of 1935
OBIT - Hastings Gazette, Friday February 1, 1935:
Pioneer Resident, Civic Leader Is Pneumonia Victim
Edwin E. Tuttle, Former City Official and Early Settler; Summoned
Hastings lost one of its most prominent citizens and civic leaders Monday evening at 7:45 when Edwin E. Tuttle, pioneer resident and former public official here, succumbed at his home on East 15th and Ramsey Street to an attack of flu-pneumonia.
A natural impairment of health, due to his advanced age, had confined Mr. Tuttle to his home since the holidays, but he had seemed to be improving somewhat until pneumonia developed. Despite his years, he made a courageous fight against the ailment, but even the best of care and attention could not offset the infirmities of age and he weakened steadily until death claimed him Monday night.
Only his unfailing determination and vitality had enabled him to survive as long as he had against such hopeless odds, but throughout his illness he persisted in the hope that he would recover and evidenced his ready gratitude for the kindnesses of those attending him.
Always a man of clean and healthful habits, Mr. Tuttle had been exceptionally active for his years until the holiday season, when his health first became noticeably affected. Although he had long since retired from public life, he seldom failed to make his daily calls downtown and enjoy regular chats with friends and former business associates. A keen student of public affairs, his judgment in matters of government, as well as in business activities, was invariably welcomed by acquaintances in all walks of life and his quiet, helpful counsel was often of immeasurable value.
A resident of this community for seventy years, Mr. Tuttle watched the transition of Hastings from a frontier trading center into a modern city of five thousand inhabitants, and during much of that time he played a leading part in the civic and business life of the city
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