Arthur Cheney Train (1875-1945)
Novelist & Creator of the Tutt Stories, of 113 East 73rd Street, New York City
He was born and brought up in Boston, graduating from Harvard (1896) and Harvard Law School (1899). He became a lawyer and was assistant to New York County District Attorney, William Travers Jerome, before entering into private practice with Charles Albert Perkins. However, he became best known as a writer of courtroom thrillers (plus two science fiction novels) and the creator of the fictional lawyer Mr. Ephraim Tutt, whose escapades were published in the Saturday Evening Post that saw Tutt become, "the best known lawyer in America." In 1897, Arthur Train married Ethel Kissam (an author in her own right), a first cousin of William Kissam Vanderbilt, etc. They had four children. In 1926, three years after she died, he married Helen Coster (great-granddaughter of one of New York's first millionaires, John Gerard Coster) and had a son.
