Henry Tutwiler (November 16, 1807 – September 20, 1884) was an American educator who founded a school for boys near Greensboro, Alabama.

Biography

Tutwiler was born in

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, in the Shenandoah Valley in 1807. He entered the first class of the

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, and following graduation with a master's degree in 1831 became a professor at the

University of Alabama The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, or Bama) is a Public university, public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of Alabama is the oldest and la ...

in Tuscaloosa. While in Tuscaloosa, he was a member of the Alabama Colonization Society, and he delivered an address to the student literary societies. It is possible that Tutwiler's departure from the University was related to his anti-slavery views. In 1835 he married Julia Ashe (1820-1883)."Henry Tutwiler"
Ancestry.com. They had eleven children; one of their daughters,

Julia Tutwiler Julia Strudwick Tutwiler (August 15, 1841 – March 24, 1916) was an advocate for education and prison reform in Alabama. She served as co-principal of the Livingston Female Academy, and then the first (and only) woman president of Livingston N ...

, became an important educator and advocate of prison reform in Alabama. Their granddaughter Martha Strudwick Young was an American regionalist writer. In 1847 he founded a private school for boys, the Greene Springs School for Boys near

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, in what was then Greene County."Greene Springs School for Boys Opens"
The History Engine, University of Richmond website. The school gained a high reputation for the quality of its instruction and because of Tutwiler's decision, unusual for the time, to admit a few young womenincluding his daughters.

References

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