Charles Leaming Tutt Jr. (January 9, 1889 – November 1, 1961) was the son of Charles L. Tutt Sr. and the president of

The Broadmoor The Broadmoor (stylized as THE BRODMOOR) is a hotel and resort in the Broadmoor, Colorado, Broadmoor neighborhood of Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Broadmoor is a member of Historic Hotels of America of the National Trust for Historic Preservat ...

resort. He was a trustee for

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and

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Personal life

Charles L. Tutt Jr. was born to Charles L. Tutt Sr. and Josephine Thayer Tutt on January 9, 1889. Of four children born to the couple, Charles Jr. was the only one to survive childhood. He grew up in Colorado Springs. His father was a school friend of

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in Philadelphia and a business partner in Colorado. Charles Jr. graduated in 1903 from St. George's School in

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. Three years later he graduated from The Thacher School in Ojai, California. On August 16, 1909, Tutt married Eleanor Armit. They had four children: Charles Leaming Tutt, III,

William Thayer Tutt William Thayer Tutt (March 2, 1912 – February 24, 1989) was an American executive for several ice hockey leagues and organizations, who was born in Coronado, California and died in El Paso. He is the son of Charles L. Tutt, Jr., and has tw ...

, Russell Thayer Tutt, and Josephine Thayer Tutt. In 1934, he married Vesta H. Wood (1900-1983), who was an archaeologist who graduated from

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and

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. They had one son, John Wood Tutt. The McAllister House Museum in Colorado Springs has a plaque at its front door in her honor.

Career

During

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, Tutt served in the Army as a captain. After that, he worked for a year in the real estate business. Tutt was secretary and treasurer of Electric and Manufacturing Company, Grand Junction Gas, and Grand River Valley Railroad Company. He was president of Beaver Fruit and Preserving Company, Beaver Park Land and Irrigation, and Beaver, Penrose and Northern Railroad. He was director of the Granite Gold Mine,

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, and Colorado Title and Trust Company. Tutt was the secretary of the Broadmoor Hotel and Land Company until Penrose's death in 1939, when he became president of

, owned by Penrose's charitable organization,

. He became head of the foundation in 1956 with Julie Penrose's death. The Tutt Library at

is named for Tutt, who served as a trustee of Colorado College. In 1959, the house he had lived in with his parents was donated to the school, and it is now known as the Tutt Alumni House.Colorado College , Campus Map/Tour
He died in 1961 at the age of 72. In 1992, Edward H. Honnen (from the 1921 Class of Colorado Springs High School) commissioned sculptor Cloyd Barnes to create a statue of Tutt, which was placed in front of the Tutt Library. Over the years, the statue has been decorated in various ways, and they have done so with affection, imagination and a sense of humor.

References

Sources

* * Denise R. W. Oldach (Ed.): Here Lies Colorado Springs. Colorado Spring: Fittje Brothers Printing Company, 1995.

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tutt, Charles Leaming Jr. 1889 births 1961 deaths People from Colorado Springs, Colorado United States Army personnel of World War I 20th-century American philanthropists