Harold Joseph Tuthill
Born: February 4, 1906, St. Louis, MO
Died: June 14, 1988, St. Louis, MO, age 82,---d. heart ailment
St. Louis sports writer;
St. Louis, MO, 4-year old, (April 16, 1910 census)
St. Louis, MO, 13-year old, (January 30, 1920 census)
St. Louis, MO, newspaper, reporter, (April 5, 1930 census)
St. Louis, MO, newspaper, sports writer, (April 17, 1940 census)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, sports writer, 1924 - 1971, (47 years)
Father: Joseph Harold Tuthill, born Chicago, IL, May 10, 1885, died January 25, 1957; Mother: Ethel M., born Massachusetts, around 1890; Wife: Lily, born Ireland, around 1908; Daughter: Carol, born Missouri, around 1936;
His father, Harry Joseph Tuthill, was an well-known cartoonist, best known for his comic strip, The Bungle Family. He was born Joseph Harold Tuthill in Chicago, IL, May 10, 1885, and died January 25, 1957.

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Joseph Harold Tuthill---AKA Harry J. Tuthill
Born: May 10, 1885, Chicago, IL
Died: January 25, 1957, St. Louis, MO, age 71,---d. heart ailment at St. Joseph Hospital (St. Louis, MO)
St. Louis cartoonist;
Chicago, IL, 15-year old, (June 9, 1900 census)
St. Louis, MO, Dairy worker on Dairy, (April 16, 1910 census)(listed Jos H Tuthill)
St. Louis, MO, St. Louis Star (newspaper), cartoonist, (September 12, 1918, WWI Civilian Draft Registration)(listed Harry Joseph Tuthill)
St. Louis, MO, newspaper cartoonist, (January 30, 1920 census)(listed Harry J Tuthill)
St. Louis, MO, newspaper, cartoonist, (April 5, 1930 census)(Harry J. Tutshill)
Ferguson, MO, News Syndicate, cartoonist, (April 8, 1940 census)
St. Louis Star, cartoonist, 1918
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, cartoonist, ? - 1945
Father: born New York; Mother: Mary, born Louisiana, October, 1861; Wife: Ethel M., born Massachusetts, around 1887; Son: Harold Joseph, born St. Louis, MO, February 4, 1906, died June 14, 1988, St. Louis, MO;
Wikipedia---article
Harry J. Tuthill (1886–1957) was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip The Bungle Family.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, he grew up in the tenements and worked as a newsboy, quitting when a tough guy muscled in on his corner. At age 15, he traveled the midwest, finding employment with a foot surgeon, selling baking powder, patented eggbeaters and pictures, plus working as a medicine show barker in a street carnival. As he recalled, he left "to work on and at such things as selling enlarged pictures, soliciting for a corn doctor, and for one delirious season carrying on with a medicine show. I would not mention these things except that I feel what may be a pardonable pride in their diversity."
During his late teens, he settled in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was employed for $10 a week as a foreman at the St. Louis Dairy, where he washed milk cans for seven years.
By the age of 30, he still had not sold any cartoons. Finding encouragement on his artwork from Bob Grable of World Color Printing, he worked for the St. Louis Star and then moved to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He took night classes at Washington University, studying engineering and art, and signed on as a full-time cartoonist with the St. Louis Star during World War I, doing a strip titled Lafe about a lazy handyman, and attracting national attention for his editorial cartoons.
Comic strips
In 1918, Tuthill launched Home Sweet Home, a strip about apartment life, in the New York Evening Mail. During the six-year run, it introduced George and Josephine Bungle, and he retitled it as The Bungle Family in 1924. Distributed initially by the McClure Syndicate and later by the McNaught Syndicate, the strip was carried by 120 newspapers. Comics historian Rick Marschall praised Tuthill's work, "Seldom has there been a strip (Moon Mullins comes to mind) registering a sustained, masterful indictment of petite-bourgeois sensibilities and preoccupations as did The Bungle Family."
He also drew Alice and Her Bothersome Little Brother and Napoleon Blunder during the 1920s. Little Brother ran as a topper strip to The Bungle Family. Tuthill’s strips from 1919 to 1926 were created in his home studio at 4537 Tower Grove Place in St. Louis, eventually moving to Ferguson, Missouri outside St. Louis. His sister, Irene Morrisson, also lived in the St. Louis area.
Tuthill continued to draw The Bungle Family for McNaught until he had a dispute with the syndicate in 1939, which no longer carried the strip in 1942. After a hiatus, the strip returned May 16, 1943, with newspapers running a promotional banner, "The Bungles Are Back!" The final two years were syndicated by Tuthill himself until 1945 when he retired. He died of heart disease in 1957.
His son, Harold Tuthill, who worked for 47 years as a St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports writer, died of a heart ailment in 1988 at the age of 82.


-----------------------------------------------------------------------Sporting News' obituary, February 6, 1957, pp. 30.
Born: February 4, 1906, St. Louis, MO
Died: June 14, 1988, St. Louis, MO, age 82,---d. heart ailment
St. Louis sports writer;
St. Louis, MO, 4-year old, (April 16, 1910 census)
St. Louis, MO, 13-year old, (January 30, 1920 census)
St. Louis, MO, newspaper, reporter, (April 5, 1930 census)
St. Louis, MO, newspaper, sports writer, (April 17, 1940 census)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, sports writer, 1924 - 1971, (47 years)
Father: Joseph Harold Tuthill, born Chicago, IL, May 10, 1885, died January 25, 1957; Mother: Ethel M., born Massachusetts, around 1890; Wife: Lily, born Ireland, around 1908; Daughter: Carol, born Missouri, around 1936;
His father, Harry Joseph Tuthill, was an well-known cartoonist, best known for his comic strip, The Bungle Family. He was born Joseph Harold Tuthill in Chicago, IL, May 10, 1885, and died January 25, 1957.

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Joseph Harold Tuthill---AKA Harry J. Tuthill
Born: May 10, 1885, Chicago, IL
Died: January 25, 1957, St. Louis, MO, age 71,---d. heart ailment at St. Joseph Hospital (St. Louis, MO)
St. Louis cartoonist;
Chicago, IL, 15-year old, (June 9, 1900 census)
St. Louis, MO, Dairy worker on Dairy, (April 16, 1910 census)(listed Jos H Tuthill)
St. Louis, MO, St. Louis Star (newspaper), cartoonist, (September 12, 1918, WWI Civilian Draft Registration)(listed Harry Joseph Tuthill)
St. Louis, MO, newspaper cartoonist, (January 30, 1920 census)(listed Harry J Tuthill)
St. Louis, MO, newspaper, cartoonist, (April 5, 1930 census)(Harry J. Tutshill)
Ferguson, MO, News Syndicate, cartoonist, (April 8, 1940 census)
St. Louis Star, cartoonist, 1918
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, cartoonist, ? - 1945
Father: born New York; Mother: Mary, born Louisiana, October, 1861; Wife: Ethel M., born Massachusetts, around 1887; Son: Harold Joseph, born St. Louis, MO, February 4, 1906, died June 14, 1988, St. Louis, MO;
Wikipedia---article
Harry J. Tuthill (1886–1957) was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip The Bungle Family.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, he grew up in the tenements and worked as a newsboy, quitting when a tough guy muscled in on his corner. At age 15, he traveled the midwest, finding employment with a foot surgeon, selling baking powder, patented eggbeaters and pictures, plus working as a medicine show barker in a street carnival. As he recalled, he left "to work on and at such things as selling enlarged pictures, soliciting for a corn doctor, and for one delirious season carrying on with a medicine show. I would not mention these things except that I feel what may be a pardonable pride in their diversity."
During his late teens, he settled in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was employed for $10 a week as a foreman at the St. Louis Dairy, where he washed milk cans for seven years.
By the age of 30, he still had not sold any cartoons. Finding encouragement on his artwork from Bob Grable of World Color Printing, he worked for the St. Louis Star and then moved to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He took night classes at Washington University, studying engineering and art, and signed on as a full-time cartoonist with the St. Louis Star during World War I, doing a strip titled Lafe about a lazy handyman, and attracting national attention for his editorial cartoons.
Comic strips
In 1918, Tuthill launched Home Sweet Home, a strip about apartment life, in the New York Evening Mail. During the six-year run, it introduced George and Josephine Bungle, and he retitled it as The Bungle Family in 1924. Distributed initially by the McClure Syndicate and later by the McNaught Syndicate, the strip was carried by 120 newspapers. Comics historian Rick Marschall praised Tuthill's work, "Seldom has there been a strip (Moon Mullins comes to mind) registering a sustained, masterful indictment of petite-bourgeois sensibilities and preoccupations as did The Bungle Family."
He also drew Alice and Her Bothersome Little Brother and Napoleon Blunder during the 1920s. Little Brother ran as a topper strip to The Bungle Family. Tuthill’s strips from 1919 to 1926 were created in his home studio at 4537 Tower Grove Place in St. Louis, eventually moving to Ferguson, Missouri outside St. Louis. His sister, Irene Morrisson, also lived in the St. Louis area.
Tuthill continued to draw The Bungle Family for McNaught until he had a dispute with the syndicate in 1939, which no longer carried the strip in 1942. After a hiatus, the strip returned May 16, 1943, with newspapers running a promotional banner, "The Bungles Are Back!" The final two years were syndicated by Tuthill himself until 1945 when he retired. He died of heart disease in 1957.
His son, Harold Tuthill, who worked for 47 years as a St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports writer, died of a heart ailment in 1988 at the age of 82.


-----------------------------------------------------------------------Sporting News' obituary, February 6, 1957, pp. 30.
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