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Cutting, James Ambrose – Cutts, Marsena E

Cutting, James Ambrose

inventor, was born in 1814 in Massachusetts.

Turning his attention to the new art of making daguerreotypes, he discovered the process of making pictures on glass, which after his own name he called ambrotypes. He died July 31, 1867, in Worcester, Mass.

Cutting, Sewall Sylvester

educator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 19, 1813, in Windsor, Vt. He was a baptist clergyman and religious journalist; and the author of Historical Vindications; Struggles and Triumphs of Religious Liberty; and Ancient Baptistries. He died Feb. 7, 1882, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Cutts, Charles

lawyer, United States senator, was born in 1769 in Massachusetts. He was elected a member of the legislature in 1804, and then speaker of the house. He was sent to the United States senate in 1810 from New Hampshire, and served until 1813. He was secretary of the senate from 1814 to 1825. He died in 1846 in Virginia.

Cutts, Marsena E

lawyer, congressman, was born May 22, 1833, in Orwell, Vt. He was prosecuting attorney of Poweshiek county, Iowa, in 1859; was a member of the state house of representatives in 1861; was a state senator from 1864 to 1866; and was again in the state house of representatives from 1870 to 1872.

He was attorney-general of the state from 1872 to 1877, and was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses.