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Oregon Republican League:
Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 275.
TUTTLE, COLONEL B. B., of Portland, was born in Woolbridge Connecticut, August 18, 1843. He enlisted in the First Connecticut Infantry, April 19, 1861, and was at the battle of Bull Run. In November, 1861, he again enlisted in the First Connecticut Cavalry, and served till the end of the war, being mustered out as captain of the company. He went to Chicago in 1865 and engaged in the grain business till 1870, being one year a member of the Board of Supervisors of Cook County. In 1870 he came to Washington Territory as Private Secretary to Governor E. S. Salomon. For the last twenty years he has been a resident of Portland. For many years he was Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service of the Pacific Northwest. In 1886 he was elected on the Republican ticket as Justice of the Peace in Portland, and was re-elected in 1888. Colonel Tuttle has taken an active part in military affairs in Oregon. He helped organize Company K, in 1886, and was soon after appointed Judge Advocate General on the staff of Governor Moody. In 1887 he was elected Captain of Company A, and in 1888 was elected Major of the regiment. In 1895 Governor Lord appointed him Adjutant General of the state.
-Tony Larson
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