Charles Leaming Tutt

Background

Charles L. Tutt was born to Charles L. Tutt, Senior and Josephine Thayer Tutt on January 9, 1889. He grew up in Colorado Springs. His father was a school friend of Spencer Penrose in Philadelphia and a business partner in Colorado.

Education

Charles, Junior. graduated in 1903 from Saint George"s School in Newport, Rhode Island. Three years later he graduated from Thacher School in Nordhoff, California.

Career

He was a trustee for El Pomar Foundation and Colorado College. During World War I, 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, Colorado Midland Railway, 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 The Broadmoor, owned by Penrose"s charitaable organization, El Pomar Foundation. He became head of the foundation in 1956 with Julie Penrose"s death.

The Tutt Library at Colorado College is named for Tutt, who served as a trustee of Colorado College.

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 have been decorated in various ways, and they have done so with affection, imagination and a sense of humor.

Connections

Father:

Charles Leaming Tutt

Mother:

Josephine (Thayer) Tutt

Spouse:

Eleanor Armit

Spouse:

Vesta Halliday Wood

child:

Josephine Thayer Tutt

child:

Charles Leaming Tutt

child:

Russell Thayer Tutt

child:

William Thayer Tutt