Came with his brothers, Marcus Tuttle and Alvah B. Tuttle, to Iowa in 1855.

Son of Ira Tuttle and Lucy (Brockett) Tuttle.

From the 1883 book History of Franklin and Cerro Gordo Counties Iowa, page 723:

Elon A. Tuttle is one of the pioneers of Cerro Gordo county, and resides on
section 9 of Lake township. He was born in 1823 in Herkimer Co., N.Y., where he
grew to manhood, and was married, after which he went to Cortland county, and
there resided twelve years. In 1855, in company with his brother Marcus, and
their respective families, Mr. Tuttle removed to Johnson Co., Iowa, remaining
there but a brief period, and the same season they made their way to Cerro Gordo
county. Here Mr. Tuttle purchased forty acres of land on section 7, of James
Dickirson, the first he owned in the township and which was the nucleus of a
farm including 300 acres on which he was resident many years, and which, under
his management, became one of the model places in the county, adorned with a
most enviable home. Associated with his brothers, Marcus and A.B. Tuttle, he
entered a claim of 500 acres, and the same season drew the lumber for his first
house from Iowa City. The same fall he built his residence and moved his family
from Johnson county. This was the first frame house in what is now Lake
township.

The wife of Mr. Tuttle was Orrissa C. Humphreville, born in Herkimer Co., N.Y.,
in 1823, and died May 14, 1880. Six of Mr. Tuttle's seven children are living —
Nellie, wife of A. H. Hotelling; Hattie (deceased) ; Sylvia, wife of Rev. George
A. Cressey, resident at Huron, Dakota; Adelmer M., practicing physician at Britt
and Lucien, also living in Britt, Hancock county ; Nettie, wife of D.D. Howe, of
Britt ; Sophia, wife of David Howe, a resident of Mandan, Dakota.

Mr. Tuttle and his brothers are popularly and widely known as pioneers of Cerro
Gordo county, and rank among the promoters of progress and growth to a fair
position among the best counties of the State. A.B. Tuttle resides at Mason City
; Marcus Tuttle has settled in Clay county.

After the death of his wife, Mr. Tuttle sold his homestead farm, and has since
resided on a quarter section of which he became proprietor in 1855, and on which
he built a pleasant home.

Children
Ellen Luvantia Tuttle b: 7 AUG 1844 in Cortland Co., NY, USA
Harriet Eugenia Tuttle b: 11 OCT 1845 in Cortland Co., NY, USA
Sylvia Jane Tuttle b: 5 APR 1847 in Cortland Co., NY, USA
Adelmer Marcus Tuttle b: 19 NOV 1848 in Freetown, Cortland Co., NY, USA
Jeanette M. Tuttle b: 23 AUG 1850 in Freetown, Cortland Co., NY, USA
Lucien Felix Tuttle b: 5 APR 1852 in Freetown, Cortland Co., NY, USA
Sophia Adah Tuttle b: 12 JAN 1854 in Freetown, Cortland Co., NY, USA