LUTHER BROWN TUTHILL (1859-1930)

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V21 2018 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 21, Number 42, October 21, 2018, Article 25

John Lupia submitted the following information from the online draft of his book of numismatic biographies for this week's installment of his series. Thanks! As always, this is an excerpt with the full article and bibliography available online. This week's subject is dealer Luther Tuthill. -Editor

Tuthill, Luther Brown (1859-1930). Numismatist, paper money, coin and stamp collector and dealer. He was a charter member of the ANA being given the member No. 32. The March 1892 issue of The Numismatist however, lists him as member no. 90. He was an active member of the ANS since May 21, 1900. He was a specialist in paper money, especially CSA notes, stamps and coins.

He was the first-born of five children of Effingham Tuthill (1834-1917) and Clarissa Catherine Brown (1836-1876), born on May 3, 1859, Port Jefferson, Suffolk County, New York.

On November 21, 1888, he married Eliza Calvert Springer (1865-1924), at her home in Oregon, Beaufort County, North Carolina. They had five children...

Luther B. Tuthill was included in a list of dealers published in the The Numismatist, Vol. XIII (1900). (cited by Q. David Bowers, who mentions Luther Tuthill in a list in: Virgil Brand: The Man and His Era. Profile of a Numismatist. (Wolfeboro, New Hampshire) : 93.)

At the ANA Convention at the World's Fair St. Louis, Missouri, October 15, 1904, Tuthill was elected to the Board of Directors.

He was a long-time friend of William P. Titcomb (1839-1910) of Washington, D.C., considered by him to be the best authority in the country on Confederate Treasury Notes. He published the death notice of Titcomb in Mehl’s Numismatic Monthly.

In 1924, he was given the commission of Postmaster, South Creek, North Carolina.

Luther died of cerebral hemorrhage on the 23rd of November 1930 at the State Hospital, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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