I have a copy of Goodspeed's "History of
Greene &
Sullivan Counties...". I checked the index and found no Tuttle's listed at all. However, newfangled ways allow me to scan the entire thing for specific words, as you know, and this is what I found on pages 609 & 610:
THE
SCHOOLS OF
Sullivan.
"The first school building erected in
Sullivan was a very good two story brick building, known as the County Seminary; builders, F. G. McGrew and James Pound. The building was erected in 1844, by the county under the old seminary law. Mr. A. J. Mails taught the first schools in this building, teaching some two years.
In the fall of 1848 the Trustees, Joseph Gray, Dr. William
Crowder and A. J. Thixton, employed James W. Hinkle to take charge of this school, which he did in October, 1848, continuing in charge thereof for three years, until the abolishing of county seminaries by act of the State
Legislature. During these years, the one teacher was teacher of primary, intermediate, grammar and high school departments. Having charge of all those of school age in town and vicinity, and many young gentleman and ladies from contiguous counties, and if the teacher of to-day thinks his
labors too arduous, let him take seventy-five students, all grades, from the alphabet to the higher mathematics,
Latin, etc., and try that. And when we remember the absolute moral control exerted by the teacher in those days over all those brought under his influence both in and out of school,
we fear that the new devices have not been improvements. As an example, a widow lady of
Knox County removed to this town to give her fifteen-year-old son the advantages of this school. Not having been accustomed to this kind of confinement and labor, he became restless, and took to the streets and elsewhere for pastime. The mother appealed to the teacher, the teacher appealed to the young man, with a statement of the trouble and expense that the mother had been to, to give him the privileges of the school, and the order, now was positive that while she remained, he must be in his place; if not, there would be a penalty, if it
had to be imposed in the street, and he was in his place henceforth.
Neither did we expel a lad from twelve to fifteen years of age in those days for insubordination When a case of this kind occurred, it was “you walk the chalk or there will be a conflict right here, and now" and he walked every time.
During the years from 1852 to 1872, some very good work was done in teaching, both public and private schools in this new town; and in the performance of this work, quite a number of teachers were successively engaged, the number and names of which we may not be expected to give in full, without some record to which to refer. But of these were
Prof. Penfield, Prof. Wilkey, Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Booth, James
Booth, Prof. J. H. Gans and his sister, Miss Hal
Gans, afterward Mrs. Dr. Tuttle; Miss
Stowell and Miss Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester
Coffey, a Mr. Thair, Charles R. Wallace, John
Osburn, Prof. Morton, Mrs. Carrie Russell,
Clark McIntire, S. T. Langdon, Mrs. Hanchett, Mrs. Ada
Young, Miss Jennie Young, the Rev. Montgomery, Prof. Cain et al."
I know it is meeger but I think it does play into your belief that Samuel was a preacher (perhaps a Dr. of divinity?). Good luck!