Hudson Tuttle

Born in Berlin Heights, Ohio, in 1836, Hudson Tuttle grew up with little formal schooling but became a widely read American Spiritualist author, lecturer, and publisher. He was active from the movement’s early years and spent decades writing for reform and spiritualist newspapers and magazines while also speaking publicly on spiritual and philosophical themes.

Tuttle wrote numerous books, including Arcana of Spiritualism, The Career of the Christ-Idea in History, and The Evolution of the God and Christ Ideas. Alongside his writing life, he remained rooted in rural Ohio, where he worked as a farmer and horse breeder. That combination of practical country life and sweeping metaphysical speculation gave his work a distinctive character.

He also collaborated with his wife, Emma Rood Tuttle, herself a writer and spiritualist worker. Late in life they published Stories from Beyond the Borderland together. Tuttle died in 1910, leaving behind a body of work that captures both the confidence and the curiosity of nineteenth-century Spiritualism.