This is a transcription of the Harriet French (Tuttle) Folsom biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 195.
Harriet French (Tuttle) Folsom
LIKE most New Hampshire women Mrs. Frederick K. Folsom (Harriet French Tuttle) is essentially a homemaker, and she cares little for public life, though her connection with the New Hampshire’s Daughters Club, of which she is the efficient corresponding secretary, has brought her somewhat prominently forward as a daughter of the Granite state in Boston, where she resides in the Dorchester district. Mrs. Folsom is the daughter of ex-Governor Hiram A., and Mary C. (French) Tuttle, and was born in Pittsfield January 17, 1861. She is directly descended from John Tuttle, who came to New Hampshire from England in 1641. Her grandmother, Judith Mason Davis, was a descendant of Samuel Davis, a Revolutionary soldier. The family on both sides have had their home in New Hampshire for generations. Miss Tuttle was thoroughly educated, was a student of Wellesley college, and has travelled extensively in our own and other countries, having spent the year 1888 abroad. In the following year she married Mr. Frederick K. Folsom of Dorchester, Mass., where she has since resided. Mr. and Mrs. Folsom have one child, a bright and handsome boy named for his honored grandfather–Hiram Tuttle. Mrs. Folsom is talented in many directions. She is a fine reader and has entertained the public in that capacity most acceptably upon many occasions. She has also a taste for painting and has studied the art with J. J. Enneking. Her summers are always spent at the old home in Pittsfield.