My Maine Heritage - June 2023 - Person Sheet
My Maine Heritage - June 2023 - Person Sheet
NameFrederick N Tufts
Birth Date5 Oct 1857
Birth PlaceWinthrop, Kennebec Co., ME
Death Date26 Nov 1937 Age: 80
Death PlaceKansas City, MO
FatherRev. Samuel N Tufts (1816-1895)
MotherAngeline Morton (1815-1902)
Misc. Notes
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=153719593
Family listed on 1920 USC for Kansas City, KS.
From: https://books.google.com/books?id=DH0UAAAAYAAJ&...tufts%22&f=false
“FREDERICK N TUFTS”
Frederick N Tufts, special agent for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Boston, Massachusetts, and secretary and treasurer of the Knife and Fork Club, has in these connections become widely known in Kansas City, and the personal qualities he has displayed in meeting with his fellowmen have gained for him warm friendship and high regard. He was born at Winthrop, near Augusta, Maine, October 5, 1857. His father, Rev. Samuel N. Tufts, was a clergyman of the Freewill Baptist Church and continued active in the ministry until he retired on account of advanced years. He was one of the older ministers of Maine and preached also in New Hampshire but retired before his removal to the west. He came to Kansas City seven or eight years prior to his death and passed away in October, 1897, at the age of seventy-nine years. His wife, who in her maidenhood was Angeline Morton, died in Kansas City in November, 1903. Her ancestors in the paternal line were of English origin, George Morton having come to America on the ship Anne in 1623. He was a nephew of Governor Bradford and published Bradford’s Account of the Founding of Plymouth. Mrs. Tufts was numbered among his direct descendants in the sixth generation and was descended as well from Miles Standish, John Alden, John Howland, Priscilla Mullen and Elizabeth Tilley, all Mayflower ancestors. The family was represented in the Revolutionary War by Ichabod Morton and Batchelor Bennett, while Levi P Morton was an own cousin of Mordecai Morton, the father of Mrs. Tufts.
Frederick N Tufts was the youngest in a family of four children of whom three are yet living, his siters being Mrs. H. M. Keif, of Berkeley, California, and Mrs. George S. Woodman, of Auburn, Maine. Another sister, Mary Ida, was drowned in the Andoroscoggin river when eleven years of age. Mr. Tufts was educated in the public schools of Maine and New Hampshire, removing to Farmington, in the latter state, when ten years of age. After his school days were over he was employed in shoe factories in Maine and Massachusetts and came to the west from Lynn, Massachusetts, arriving in Kansas CIty in January, 1887. Here he was joined a few years later by his parents, who spent their remaining days here. Following his arrival in Missouri, Mr. Tufts engaged as special agent with the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, with which he has since been connected, conducting a successful busines in this line. He devotes all of his time to insurance interests and his duties as secretary of the Knife and Fork Club, in which capacity he has served for nine years, while for six years he has also acted as its treasurer.
On the 3d of May, 1882, Mr. Tufts was married in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Miss Anna B. Fitz, a daughter of Josiah Fitz, a wholesale baker of Lynn. There is one son of this marriage, Howard Morton, now twenty-two years of age. The family residence, owned by Mr. Tufts, is at No. 1332 East Thirty-third Street and is justly celebrated for its warm-hearted hospitality. Mr. Tufts is a republican, well informed on the issues of the day but not an active party worker. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and is a faithful member of the First Congregational Church, of which he has been an active worker almost continuously since coming to Kansas City, twenty-two years ago. He has held many offices therein, serving as clerk for seven years, as superintendent and treasurer of the Sunday school, while at the present time he is deacon in the church and assistant Sunday school superintendent. His church work, his secretaryship with the Knife and Fork Club and his business interests have combined to bring him a very wide acquaintance and he is a man of unusually attractive personality, who has the faculty not only of winning but retaining friends. His manner is so genial, his cordiality so sincere and his courtesy so unfailing that he sheds around him much of the sunshine of life.”
Family listed on 1920 USC for Kansas City, KS.
From: https://books.google.com/books?id=DH0UAAAAYAAJ&...tufts%22&f=false
“FREDERICK N TUFTS”
Frederick N Tufts, special agent for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Boston, Massachusetts, and secretary and treasurer of the Knife and Fork Club, has in these connections become widely known in Kansas City, and the personal qualities he has displayed in meeting with his fellowmen have gained for him warm friendship and high regard. He was born at Winthrop, near Augusta, Maine, October 5, 1857. His father, Rev. Samuel N. Tufts, was a clergyman of the Freewill Baptist Church and continued active in the ministry until he retired on account of advanced years. He was one of the older ministers of Maine and preached also in New Hampshire but retired before his removal to the west. He came to Kansas City seven or eight years prior to his death and passed away in October, 1897, at the age of seventy-nine years. His wife, who in her maidenhood was Angeline Morton, died in Kansas City in November, 1903. Her ancestors in the paternal line were of English origin, George Morton having come to America on the ship Anne in 1623. He was a nephew of Governor Bradford and published Bradford’s Account of the Founding of Plymouth. Mrs. Tufts was numbered among his direct descendants in the sixth generation and was descended as well from Miles Standish, John Alden, John Howland, Priscilla Mullen and Elizabeth Tilley, all Mayflower ancestors. The family was represented in the Revolutionary War by Ichabod Morton and Batchelor Bennett, while Levi P Morton was an own cousin of Mordecai Morton, the father of Mrs. Tufts.
Frederick N Tufts was the youngest in a family of four children of whom three are yet living, his siters being Mrs. H. M. Keif, of Berkeley, California, and Mrs. George S. Woodman, of Auburn, Maine. Another sister, Mary Ida, was drowned in the Andoroscoggin river when eleven years of age. Mr. Tufts was educated in the public schools of Maine and New Hampshire, removing to Farmington, in the latter state, when ten years of age. After his school days were over he was employed in shoe factories in Maine and Massachusetts and came to the west from Lynn, Massachusetts, arriving in Kansas CIty in January, 1887. Here he was joined a few years later by his parents, who spent their remaining days here. Following his arrival in Missouri, Mr. Tufts engaged as special agent with the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, with which he has since been connected, conducting a successful busines in this line. He devotes all of his time to insurance interests and his duties as secretary of the Knife and Fork Club, in which capacity he has served for nine years, while for six years he has also acted as its treasurer.
On the 3d of May, 1882, Mr. Tufts was married in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Miss Anna B. Fitz, a daughter of Josiah Fitz, a wholesale baker of Lynn. There is one son of this marriage, Howard Morton, now twenty-two years of age. The family residence, owned by Mr. Tufts, is at No. 1332 East Thirty-third Street and is justly celebrated for its warm-hearted hospitality. Mr. Tufts is a republican, well informed on the issues of the day but not an active party worker. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and is a faithful member of the First Congregational Church, of which he has been an active worker almost continuously since coming to Kansas City, twenty-two years ago. He has held many offices therein, serving as clerk for seven years, as superintendent and treasurer of the Sunday school, while at the present time he is deacon in the church and assistant Sunday school superintendent. His church work, his secretaryship with the Knife and Fork Club and his business interests have combined to bring him a very wide acquaintance and he is a man of unusually attractive personality, who has the faculty not only of winning but retaining friends. His manner is so genial, his cordiality so sincere and his courtesy so unfailing that he sheds around him much of the sunshine of life.”