Hugh M.Luttrellb. 1/18/1868 Culpeper, VA
HISTORY OF VIRGINIA
(Vol.6) Page 270-271
American historical Society, 1924
HUGH M. LUTTRELL
IVANHOE FARM
FAUQUIER CO. VIRGINIA
Hugh M. Luttrell.To say that Hugh M. Luttrell is master ofIvanhoe Farm, one of the pure bred stock farms of Fauquier County, is to give him a high and widely recognized tribute as one of the most successful stockmen of Virginia, one whose prize products have been exhibited not only in state but national shows and fairs.
Mr. Luttrell represents a Colonial Virginia family.The Luttrell’s originally lived in France, went from there to England, thence to Ireland and from Ireland came to America in the early part of the eighteenth century, settling in Prince William County, Virginia.Richard Luttrell, son of the first Richard Luttrell, through the influence of Thomas Jefferson was commissioned an ensign from Fauquier County in the Revolution, and after the close of the war for independence he was appointed by President Thomas Jefferson, governor ofIllinois Territory.Richard Luttrell married a Miss Frances Hambleton.They were the parents of James Richard Luttrell, who married a Miss Bywaters, and by that union had one son and three daughters.The son was Burrell Edmond Luttrell, father of the proprietor ofIvanhoe.
Burrell Edmond Luttrell was a Confederate soldier, acting as a recruiting officer for Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and General Beauregard.He was captured at the battle ofStrasburg, Virginia, and was confined at Point Lookout, Maryland, until the end of the war.He was a native of Culpeper County, had a liberal education, was a teacher after the war and he then settled down to the business of farming, which had been the occupation of his ancestors for generations.
He became the owner of the old Nelson farm, Locust Grove, in Rappahannock County, and was a breeder of pedigreed cattle and sheep.He died at Locust Grove in 1912, at the age of seventy-six.He was one of the courtly old citizens of his time, and was a devout Baptist.B. E. Luttrell married Mary Nelson, daughter of James Richard Nelson, of Culpeper County and a descendant of the famous old General and governor Nelson ofRevolutionary times.James Richard Nelson was a farmer, and his wife was Elizabeth Bywaters.Mrs. B. E. Luttrell died in 1909 and she and her husband are buried at Amissville, Virginia.They reared a family of seven sons and one daughter.Capitola; wife of John S. Hughes, now a resident of Richmond; Richard Edmond, a Rappahannock ,County farmer who married Miss Ada Browning; Hugh Montgomery; Frank, a farmer in Rappahonnock, County; Charles, who died unmarried at the age of twenty-four; warren, who died while a Baptist missionary in India; Russell, in the insurance and loan business at Falls church, Virginia; and John A, an insurance man at Waynesboro, Pensylvania.
Hugh Montgomery Luttrell was born at Olive, Culpeper County, Virginia, January 18, 1868.He grew up in Rappahannock County, and was well educated, attending the Virginia Military Academy at Culpeper Court House and RichmondCollege.His early training on the farm decided him in his course of a vocation, and after a year of ranching experience in California he returned to Virginia and established himself at Ivanhoe, and from the first has specialized in the raising of high grade stock.For many years he bred and showed hunting horses, but from that he concentrated his attention on Aberdeen Angus cattle and Poland China hogs.As a horse breeder he won several hundred prizes, exhibiting his stock at the important horse shows of the country, and has ribbons by the boxfull.He raised “Bowling” and brought out “Eagle” and“Willow King” as well as “Majesty.”In the cattle industry he showed the Red Polled for five years, and later his Aberdeen Angus cattle were exhibited at the Chicago International Stock Show, winning several seconds.He won the junior championship of the State Fair three years in succession, owning the grand champion steer at the Richmond State Fair, and two dozen silver cups and vases in his home indicate to what extent his exhibits have been considered in competition with other prize stock horses, Hogs, Wheat and Corn grown at Ivanhoe has been awarded an aggregate of 530 ribbons.
With a long and successful experience as a stock breeder Mr. Luttrell hs contributed of his experience to the benefit of others and has written a number of articles for magazines on stock breeding and animal husbandry.He was one of the founders of the Fauquier Agricultural Society and its President for ten years, and that he isone of the most prominent men in the agricultural industry today is indicated. By the fact that he is Vice President of the Virginia State Fair Association, Vice President of the State Farmers Union, President of the Fauquier County farmers Union and President of the Virginia Aberdeen Angus Association.
The old home at Ivanhoe was built seventy-eight years ago by Lewis F. Marshall, a nephew of Chief Justice Marshall.This residence was burned in 1895, and the present owner of Ivanhoe replaced it with a modern mansion located opposite the old home ofChief Justice Marshall, Oak Hill.It is also near the birthplace of the Confederate General Turner Ashby, and not far away is the home of Admiral Jones of the United States Navy.During the war between the states, Ivanhoe was in the path of General Jackson’ army and Col. John S. Mosby’s troops as they went up and down skirmishing and campaigning.At that time Lewis F. Marshall was occupying Ivanhoe, and some of his sons were in the Confederate army battling for the cause of the South.
Mr. Luttrell was reared a Baptist, but is now a member of the Presbyterian Church and one of the trustees of the Westminster congregation at Delaplane.He cast his first presidential ballot for Grover Cleveland, and has never failed to cast his ballot for the national head of the party since then.
In Westminster Church at Delaplane, July 10, 1894, Mr. Luttrell Married Miss Atlanta Singleton, who was born at Baltimore, August 19, 1867, daughter of Andrew Jackson Singleton. She was the only child of her parents to grow to maturity, and was educated in the Carey School in Baltimore.Mr. And Mrs. H. M. Luttrell have one daughter and two sons:Mary Singleton Luttrell who finished her education in May Baldwin Seminary; Hugh M. Jr. and Singleton Luttrell.The sons are assisting their father in the management of Ivanhoe farm.Hugh, Jr., finished his education in Randolph-Macon Academy and in a business school at Washington.