CHARLES WESLEY⁷ TUTTLE (Moses⁶, James^5-1) was born 1 November 1829 in Newfield, Maine, and he died 17 July 1881 in Boston, Massachusetts. Charles married 31 January 1872 to MARY LOUISA PARK. Mary, daughter of John C. and Mary Park, was born 5 May 1840 in Boston, Massachusetts, and she died 25 April 1887 in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Charles W. Tuttle developed an interest in astronomy viewing events such as the solar eclipse of 1836 and the great comet of 1843. In 1849, his father Moses remarried and the family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. On 7 February 1851, he was elected Second Assistant Observer at the Harvard College Observatory. In 1854, he received the degree of Master of Arts from Harvard College. Tuttle reluctantly resigned his position at the observatory in 1854 as a result of difficulties with his eyesight. However, he continued to lecture and wrote articles for Gould's Astronomical Journal and Brunnow's Astronomical Notices. Tuttle graduated from Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk County bar (1856). In 1865, he was elected a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and served on the board of directors (1867-1881), publishing committee, and contributed articles to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. In 1873, he was chosen a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He was an active member of the Prince Society serving as treasurer and corresponding secretary. He contributed articles in Notes and Queries, Magazine of American History, Maine Genealogist and Biographer, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Johnson's Cyclopedia, and the Historical Memoranda column in the Dover Enquirer. In 1880, Dartmouth College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Source: memoir in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 42[1888]:9-27