Henry Tutwiler (November 16, 1807 – September 20, 1884) was an American educator who founded a school for boys near Greensboro, Alabama.
Tutwiler was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley in 1807.
[3] They had eleven children; one of their daughters, Julia Tutwiler, became an important educator and advocate of prison reform in Alabama.
Their granddaughter Martha Strudwick Young was an American regionalist writer.
[4] 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 women—including his daughters.