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Note: Tuttle, printed and published by Tuttle & Co., Rutland, VT, 1883:
p.484-485
"Charles, b. Oct. 3, 1815; suffered nearly all his life from ill health; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 23, 1864, age 49; unmarried; buried in Spring Grove Cemetery (Cincinnati, Ohio). A great reader, of sound judgment, superior intelligence and of an extraordinary purity, integrity and elevation of character. this is the unanimous testimony of all who ever knew him, even from a child. In the line of duty and in defense of right, he was fearless, and of an unconquerable resolution, though naturally of a peaceable and quiet disposition. It is remembered that when a boy of about twelve years of age he was brought home on a shutter, insensible and covered with blood. In old times in New Haven, as elsewhere in large towns, before the organization of a paid police force, the pugnacity of young humanity of the masculine gender vented itself in frequent street fights. Boys formed themselves into gangs offensive and defensive, and were known collectively by the name of the street or neighborhood where they lived and had their being. Sometimes pitched battles were fought between rival gangs, and then woe to the windows of adjacent buildings, which generally suffered far more than the belligerents themselves, arms of precision not being in use among them. But the favorite mode of warfare was the Napoleonic trick of concentrating a superior force on a weak point of the enemy; that is, to ambush a stray urchin found on forbidden ground, and with a preponderating force of five or six to one, give him an unmerciful thrashing. In this they also resembled the dogs of Constantinople, and the verisimilitude is worth noting in relation to the law of evolution and the survival of the fittest, that is, the ugliest and the meanest. In the neighborhood of the tanneries on George Street, there was a peculiarly rough set called the "leather lane gang" who kept the neighborhood in awe. One day while going about his business, he was attacked by this tribe of Arabs and fought them, single handed and alone, until he could fight no longer, and was brought home as related above, on a shutter, like an ancient hero on his shield. When about 22 years of age he was advised by a physician to try a season of cod-fishing on the Banks of New Foundland for the benefit of his health. Accordingly he shipped as a common h and on a small vessel and spent three months hauling of codfish fathoms deep with hook and line. Tossing like a cork want of rest, exposure to the elements and coarse innutritious diet, homesick and lonely, in close juxtaposition with natures as widely different and incongenial as could be imagined. Always in danger and once nearly run down by an ocean stemship rushing through the waves in a dark night, black and huge, close to the frail little fishing craft; his hands swollen from the gurley of the fish to nearly double their natural size; of all these things he remembered or at least related, only the humorous aspect; for all of life's experiences had to him a humorous aspect, dyspeptic as he was, and his stories connected with this harsh and trying episode, always excited the greatest merriment in his hearers. The great holiday season of his life was a partial tour of Europe, in 1858 or 1859. History had always been his favorite reading, and from the knowledge thus acquired, and from his sympathy with human progress and with the great qualities of historic men, his visits to remarkable places afforded him the greatest possible enjoyment and profit. He had planned another foreign tour to be taken in company with the compiler.
About 1860 or 1861, he became proprietor of the stock, stereotype plates and copy, rights of a wholesale book business, which he thenceforth conducted so prudently and successfully that at the time of his death in 1864, it stood on a sound basis, out of debt, and with a large cash capital.
Of the finer and nobler traits of his character, it is difficult to convey an adequate idea; mere general terms and phrases are meaningless from much use and more misapplication; and his limited sphere gave no opportunity for a wide employment or recognition of them. In delicacy of mind and purity of heart and life he was immaculate, and the perfect confidence and respect which he everywhere inspired was but a faint reflex of himself"
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1860 U.S. Census
Name: Henry Horve
[Henry Howe]
Age: 43
Birth Year: abt 1817
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Connecticut
Home in 1860: Cincinnati Ward 1, Hamilton, Ohio
Post Office: Cincinnati
Family Number: 501
Household Members:
Name Age
Henry Horve 43, m, book publisher, b-CT
Francis Horve 39, f, b-CT
Fanny Horve 11, f, b-CT
Clara Horve 6, f, b-OH
Frank H Horve 5, m, b-OH
Charles Horve 3, m, b-OH
Mary Daily 20, f, servant, b-Ireland
Bridgt Obrien 21, f, servant, b-Ireland
Charlott Ward 69, f, b-CT
Charles Tuttle 43, m, book publisher, b-CT
Note: The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, by George Frederick
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