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Tutwiler Appendix Appendix Tutwiler Family Chart for Appendix Tutwiler Connections with the University of Virginia in its early years Dr. Henry Tutwiler Our Grandfather Henry Tutwiler (1812-1879) had an accomplished and well-known Tutwiler first cousin, also named Henry (1807-1884), whom we will refer to as “Dr. Henry.”1 (See chart, above.) Dr. Henry Tutwiler was raised in Harrisonburg, VA. His father, also named Henry, was a glove-maker and served for many years as the Postmaster of Harrisonburg. Dr. Henry Tutwiler enrolled in the University of Virginia in its opening year of 1825, and he graduated in 1829. Edgar Allan Poe was one of his classmates. Below: Cousin Dr. Henry Tutwiler and his wife, Julia Ashe Tutwiler. 1 Dr. Henry Tutwiler was also a first cousin to Henry Emmanuel Sipe, whose mother, Catherine Tutwiler Sipe, was a sister to Dr. Henry's father. See “Tutwiler Family Cousins” chart at beginning of Appendix. He was one of the first two students to earn the degree of master of arts, although owing to the fact that the degree was not established during his student life at the university, it was not formally conferred upon him until July, 1835.2 Tutwiler applied for a professorship at the then being formed University of Alabama in 1830. Several of his professors and acquaintances wrote letters of recommendation for him, excerpts of which follow.3 “Mr. Tutwiler has been a student of this university for five years. He has invariably been among the foremost, and sometimes the very first, in the several classes he has attended, at every examination, and he has obtained the rare (I think singular) distinction of graduating in six departments..” Professor George Tucker, Oct. 11, 1830. “No student who has left the university has possessed such various qualifications as Mr. Tutwiler, for in addition to his being a graduate in the school of ancient languages, he has obtained similar honors in the schools of mathematics, natural philosophy, moral philosophy, political economy, and law.” Dr. Robley Dunglison, Chairman of the Faculty, Oct. 12, 1830. “... I have known Mr. Tutwiler form his very boyhood – and during the whole period of his stay at this University I was familiarly acquainted with him – part of this time he lived with me under the same roof.” Prof. Gessner Harrison, Oct. 18, 1830. Below: Pavilion X on the Lawn of the University of Virginia. Gessner Harrison lived here from 1828 until the 1830's.4 Harrison and Henry Tutwiler were boyhood friends from Harrisonburg, VA. They were roommates when first enrolling in 1825, and Tutwiler likely lived here with Harrison in 1828 and 1829 as noted by Harrison 2 McCorvey, Thomas Chalvers, Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia, January, 1917, page 281. 3 Ibid, pages 297-302. 4 Patton, John Shelton, Jefferson, Cabell and the University of Virginia, The Neale Publishing Co., 1906; p. 292 “The University of Alabama was opened for enrollment of students on the 18th day of April, 1831. … Henry Tutwiler, as the senior professor, was the acting president at the real opening of the University of Alabama in 1831.”5 Julia Ashe of Alabama and Henry Tutwiler were married in 1835. She was a great granddaughter of Samuel Ashe, governor of North Carolina. The couple produced eleven children. An early student of Tutwiler's remembered him, stating, “Professor Tutwiler was altogether the most noted and marked of the first corps of professors. He was then a delicate stripling of a youth in appearance as timid and modest as a woman – so gentle in his demeanor and so graceful and apt in his mode of imparting instruction that every boy fell absolutely in love with him. It is not to say too much of Professor Tutwiler that he was a whole faculty within himself, even at that earlier period of his life; and that he was as much at home in the chemical laboratory as he was in his own room with the classics.”6 Henry resigned from the University in 1837, and for the next ten years taught at several schools in Alabama. In the fall of 1847, he founded the Greene Springs School for Boys. He lead this institution for the next thirty-seven years.7 At Greene Springs he was remembered as a man who, “ruled by moral suasion and personal influence alone; no form of corporal punishment was ever used. If he found a student incorrigible, he quietly and kindly sent him home, or advised his parents or guardian, when the term expired not to send him back.”8 Henry Tutwiler's reputation as and educator extended well beyond Alabama. President Franklin Pierce appointed him to the Board of Visitors for the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1853. The University of Alabama asked Henry to return as its president in 1874, but he declined. It was the second time that he was offered the position. A tornado swept through the Greene Springs School campus in April, 1878. It blew away a number of cottages that were occupied by students along with the chapel and library. It seriously damaged the main building, occupied by Henry's family. His extensive chemical and physical equipment was to a large extent damaged or destroyed. Books and papers were scattered by the winds or badly damaged by exposure to the torrents of rain that accompanied the storm. Fortunately, there was no loss of life or serious injury. The school reopened in October, 1879.9 Henry Tutwiler died several years later on Sept. 22, 1884 at Greene Springs, Hale County, Alabama. 5 Op cit, McCorvey, p. 287. 6 Ibid, p. 278. 7 Ibid, p. 290. 8 Ibid, p. 292. 9 Ibid, p. 294 In 1882, Dr. Henry Tutwiler was invited to address the UVA Alumni Society to discuss the early days of the University.10 Here are several excerpts from his speech: “I well remember the first time I saw Mr. Jefferson. It was in 1825 in the Proctor's office, whither I had gone with some students on business. A tall, venerable gentleman, in plain but neat attire, entered the room and bowing to the students, took his seat quietly in one corner. One of my friends privately, gave me to understand that it was Mr. Jefferson. … I was struck with his plain appearance and simple, unassuming manners. … We used to see him after wards as he passed our room on the Eastern Range in his almost daily visits to the University. He was now in his eighty-third year, and this ride of eight or ten miles on horseback over a rough mountain-road shows the deep interest with which he watched over this child of his old age,... This is also shown in the frequent intercourse which he kept up with the Faculty and students. Two or three times a week the former, often with their families, dined with him, by invitation, and once a week he had the students. He had a list of these, and through one of his grandsons, then a student in the University, four or five were invited to dine with him on the Sunday following. “An account of one of these days by one who had the honor of enjoying this privilege may not be without interest. Mr. Jefferson had a wonderful tact in interesting his youthful visitors, and make even the most diffident feel at ease in his company. He knew from what county each student came and being well-acquainted with the most prominent men in every part of the State, he would draw out the student by asking questions concerning them, or about something remarkable in his neighborhood, thus making one feel that he was giving instead of receiving information; or he would ask about the studies of the students, and make remarks about them or the Professors, for all of whom he had a high admiration. He was thus careful to pay attention to each individual student. He sat with us at dinner, where Mrs. Randolph (his daughter) presided, and related anecdotes of distinguished persons whom he knew abroad. I remember one, particularly, of Madame de Stael whose acquaintance he formed in Paris, and whose talents and writings be greatly admired. At table the conversation turned on novels, and Mrs. Randolph spoke of her father's aversion to them. She said that when "Ivanhoe" came out she induced him to read it, with the hope and belief that it would change his opinion. Mr. Jefferson smiled and said, yes, he had tried to read it at her urgent request, but he had found it the dullest and hardest task of the kind he had over undertaken. One of Mrs. Randolph's remarks excited no little surprise in her youthful guests: it was that she had found Blackstone as interesting as a novel. After dinner he pointed out to us, among other paintings, one of Washington on horseback, and said that, though not a handsome man, he presented on horseback the most splendid figure he had ever seen. Such is a brief sketch of one day at Monticello, and every day was like it, only frequently on a more enlarged scale. Dr. Dunglison once asked Mrs. Randolph what was the largest number of persons for whom she had been called upon, unexpectedly, to prepare accommodations for the night, and she replied fifty! “In July, 1830, just fifty-two years ago, I had the honor of standing on a platform similar to this in the Rotunda in front of us. On the same platform sat the Board of Visitors with their venerable Rector, James Madison11, and the Faculty with their Chairman, Dr.
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