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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY
Tuttle, Albert Henry, born at Cuyahoga
I-alls, -Summit county, Ohio, November 19,
1844, son of Henry Blakeslee Tuttle and
Fmeline Reed, his wife. His father was a
successful merchant of Cuyahoga Falls,
from whence he removed to Cleveland.
Cliio, in 1852. He was a pupil in the Cleve-
land High school, the Cleveland Institute,
and the State College of Pennsylvania, from
which last he graduated B. S. and M. S., and
later pursued post-graduate studies at Har-
vard University from 1870 to 1872 and at
Johns Hopkins University in 1882-83. He
was a teacher of natural science in the State
Normal School at Plattsville, Wisconsin,
from 1868 to 1870; for the following two
years was an instructor in microscopy in
Harvard College ; then became professor of
zoology and geology in the State College of
Pennsylvania; was called to the chair of
/.oology and comparative anatomy in the
Ohio State University, served from 1873 to
1888, when he was elected professor of bi-
ology in the University of Virginia. He has
been a frequent contributor to scientific
journals, and is the author of an "Introduc-
tion to the Study of Bacteria," (1895), and
"Elements of Histology" (1898). He en-
listed as a private in the Eighth Battery of
the Ohio National Guard, U. S. A., for three
months' service during the war between the
states. Prof. Tuttle married in Paris,
France, August 7, 1873. Kate .Austin Seeley ;
three children.
Humphreys, Milton Wylie, born in Greenbriar county, Virginia (now West Virginia). September 15, 1844, son of Dr. Andrew C. Humphreys and Mary McQuain Hefner, his wife, who was of German de- scent. Dr. Humphreys was also a justice of
the peace, and a lieutenant-colonel in the
militia. Samuel Humphreys was the first
member of this family to come to America,
from his native land, Ireland, and he first
settled in Pennsylvania prior to the revolu-
tion, and thence removed to Greenbriar
county. The maternal American ancestor
was Jacob Hefner, who came prior to the
revolutionary struggle, and was killed while
in the continental army. Prof. Humphrevs
studied in private schools, and entered
Washington College, but the civil war
broke out and he enlisted, was corporal
of artillery and served four years. At the
close of the war he resumed his studies at
Washington College, and was graduated
Master of Arts in 1869, becoming a tutor
in Latin, and later assistant professor of
ancient languages. He then continued his
studies at the universities of Berlin and
l.tipsic, the last mentioned conferring the
ucgrce of Doctor of Philosophy. Elected
professor of Greek at the Vanderbilt I ni-
\ersity in 1875: professor of ancient lan-
guages in the University of Texas in 1S83;
and professor of Greek at the Uni\ ersity of
\irginia in 1887. The degree of Doctor of
Laws was conferred upon him by Vander-
bilt University in 1883: was made editor-
general for North .America of the "Revue
des Revues," of Paris, France, about the
srme time: subsequently chosen to prepare
the pa])er of Greek for the Witrld's Con-
p.ress of Science and .Arts at St. Louis; he
was vice-president of the American Philo-
logical Association from 1880 to 1882. and
elected annual president in the last named
year. In the first years of his research work.
Prof. Humphreys published a work upon
Greek meters; he has written many articles
which have been published in ])hilological
