Otis Tufts

Otis Tufts I
Born	February 14, 1804(1804-02-14) Cambridge, Massachusetts
Died	November 5, 1869(1869-11-05) (aged 65) Boston, Massachusetts
Spouse	Sarah Caroline Oliver (m. 1824)
Children	Otis Tufts II
Parents	Stephen Tufts Lucy Frost
Relatives	Robert Channing Seamans, Jr., greatgrandson

Otis Tufts (February 14, 1804 - November 5, 1869) was a machinist and inventor who built the first steam-operated printing press in the United States and invented the steam pile driver.^[1]

Biography

Otis Tufts was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1804 to Stephen Tufts and Lucy Frost Tufts. He had a twin brother, Joseph Tufts who died on July 24, 1807. On April 1, 1824 he married Sarah Caroline Oliver (1803-1868), in Malden, Massachusetts. Sarah was the daughter of William Oliver and Sarah Caroline Cheever. Together they had four children: Sarah, Eliza, Caroline and Otis.^[2]

In 1837, he built a steam-operated printing press. He built the first double-hulled iron steamship and the first vessel constructed of all iron in the United States based on the designs of John Ericsson. Tufts also invented the steam pile driver. He died in Massachusetts in 1869 at the age of 65.^[3]

References

1. ^ Hevesi, Dennis (July 3, 2008). "R. C. Seamans Jr., NASA Figure, Dies at 89". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/science/space/03seamans.html. Retrieved 2008-07-03. "His great-great-grandfather Otis Tufts constructed the first steam-operated printing press in the United States and invented the steam pile driver." 
2. ^ "Otis Tufts". Rootsweb. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TUFTS/2000-02/0950539954. Retrieved 2008-07-03. 
3. ^ "Otis Tufts". Elevator Museum. http://www.theelevatormuseum.org/e/e-2.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-03. 

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Name	Tufts, Otis
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Date of birth	February 14, 1804
Place of birth	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date of death	November 5, 1869
Place of death	Boston, Massachusetts