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Cutler, Carroll

fourth president of Western Reserve and Adelbert college, was born Jan. 31, 1829, in Windham, N.

H. He was elected to the chair of philosophy and ethics in the Western Reserve college in 1860, and became president in 1871. During his administration the college was removed from Hudson to Cleveland, Ohio, and its name changed to Adelbert college. He served as its president until 1886. He is the author of The Beginning of Ethics, and other works. He died Jan. 25, 1894, in Talladega, Ala.

CUTLER, ELBRIDGE JEFFERSON, educator, poet, was born Dec. 28, 1831, in Holliston, Mass. He was a professor of modern languages at Harvard university in 1865-1870; and the author of War Poems; and Stella. He died Dec. 27, 1887, in Cambridge, Mass.

CUTLER, MRS. HANNAH MARIA, physician, author, was born Dec. 25, 1815, in Becket, Mass. She is a prominent woman suffragist who became a physician in 1879, and practiced in Cobden, Ill. She is the author of Woman as She Was, Is, and Should Be; Phillipia, or A Woman's Question; and The Fortunes of Michael Doyle, or Home Rule for Ireland.

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