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Manuscript Collections - Marshall W. Tuthill Papers
MARSHALL W. TUTHILL PAPERS, 1917-1983 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Marshall W. Tuthill was born September 24, 1897 to Thomas Howell Tuthill and Tilly M. Cathcart. He attended public schools and graduated from Navy Supply Officers School, Catholic University in Washington D.C. In 1922 Tuthill joined the American Relief Administration and began work with the unit in Russia. He served as the Chairman of the Russian Refugees Committee from 1924 to 1927. Tuthill joined Hoover’s Finnish Relief efforts in 1939. In 1924 while working with the ARA, Tuthill began serving in military intelligence as a reservist, a position he would hold until 1938. This work involved in undercover classified intelligence and economic assignments in Europe. Tuthill served on the Army-Navy Munitions Board in 1938-1940. In 1936, Tuthill married Martha Pietzsch and they had two daughters Marica (Bridgman) and Sandra (Busby). A different chapter in Tuthill’s life opened in 1950’s when he began his metal importing business, Tuthill &Company Inc. The company was based and worked primarily in Guatemala under Compania Minera de Guatemala (CMG) and the East Indies. At this time, Tuthill had close contact with the Hoovers, Allan and Herbert, as Tuthill & Co. worked as sales agents in marketing of the quicksilver from their mines in California and Idaho. He mentioned this association when he was interviewed in 1971 as part of the NLHH Oral History Program. Tuthill died on November 26, 1991. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The papers are arranged in two series: Tuthill and Company Business Records and Personal Papers. Tuthill’s business dealings are found in boxes one through six, the first box, however, does contain three folders on the Russian Unit of the ARA. The Business series’ primary emphasis is in Guatemala mining. This includes a large amount of operating data and various technical aspects related to CMG and the metals industry in general. The East Indies emphasis is more strategic, including an analysis and investigation of the tin industry and congressional analysis of the metal industries in general [pieces in Box 7, folder 15]. Starting at box 7 is the Military series with the first six folders containing records of his correspondence over many years with the Navy and Army. This also includes a scrapbook of pictures during WWI mainly from the U.S.S Sierra. The Personal series begins in the seventh folder in box 5. This contains personal correspondence with both Allan and Herbert Hoover, but also other miscellaneous pieces relating to every series. The last box has autographed books given to Tuthill by Herbert Hoover, five of the books were penned by Hoover, himself, and the last book was a biography by George Nash. FOLDER LIST TUTHILL AND COMPANY BUSINESS RECORDS Box Contents 2 SS Costal Nomad/Santa Lecnor, March 1952- May 1952 PERSONAL PAPERS 5 American Relief Administration – Russian Unit 6 Hoover, Allan, 1945-1962 7 Autographed Books, 1942-1983.
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