Cutler, Augustus W – Cuyler, Jeremiah
Cutler, Augustus W
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1829, in Morristown, N. J. He was a prosecutor for Morris county; in 1871 was elected to the state senate; and in 1874 was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-fourth congress, and was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress.
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.
Cutler, Henry Stephen
musician, was born Oct. 7, 1824, in Boston, Mass. He was organist and choir-master in Trinity church, N. Y., from 1860 to 1868. He compiled The Psalter, with Chants; Trinity Psalter; and Trinity Anthems.
Cutler, Jervis
pioneer, author, was born Sept. 19, 1768, in Edgartown, Mass.
He was a western pioneer who published Topographical Description of the Western Country. He died June 25, 1844, in Evansville, Ind.
Cutler, Mrs. Lizzie Petit
author, was born in 1836, in Milton, Va. She is the author of Light and Darkness; Household Mysteries, a romance of Southern life; and The Stars of the Crowd, or Men and Women of the Day.
Cutler, Lysander
soldier, was born about 1806 in Maine. He offered his services to the government at the beginning of the civil war, and was given command of the sixth Wisconsin regiment. Subsequently he was in command of the Iron Brigade of the army of the Potomac, to which his regiment was attached, and won the promotion of brigadier-general and afterward major-general. He died July 30, 1866, in Milwaukee, Wis.
Cutler, Manasseh
clergyman, congressman, was born May 3, 1742, in Killingly, Conn. He was one of the first scientific explorers of the White mountains; and in 1787 he organized an expedition to the northwest territory. He served a number of years in the legislature; was pastor of the church at Hamilton, Mass., until his death; and in 1800 he was elected to a seat in congress, and retained it until 1804. He died July 28, 1823, in Hamilton, Mass. was In
Cutler, Nathan
governor, born May 29, 1775, in Lexington, Mass. In 1828 and 1829 he was a member of the Maine senate from Kennebec county. 1829 he was president of that body, by virtue of which office he became governor for the unexpired term of Gov. Lincoln. He died June 8, 1861, in Farmington, Maine.
Cutler, Timothy
clergyman, was born in 1683 in Charlestown, Mass. From 1719-22 he was rector of Yale college. He died Aug. 17, 1765, in Boston, Mass.
Cutler, William P
railroad president, congressman, was born July 12, 1813, near Marietta, Ohio. He was elected to the Ohio legislature in 1844, 1845 and 1846, officiating as speaker of the house during the last term. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1850; and from that period until elected to congress was president of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad company. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-seventh congress.
Cutt, Charles
lawyer, United States senator, was born Jan. 31, 1769, in Portsmouth, N. H. In 1804 he was elected to the New Hampshire legislature, becoming speaker of that body during the same year. He was elected a senator from New Hampshire. He died Jan. 25, 1846, in Portsmouth, N. H.
Cutts, Richard
state legislator, congressman, was born June 22, 1771, on Cutts Island, near Saco, Maine. After serving two terms as a member of the general court of Massachusetts, he was elected in 1800 a member of the house of representatives of the United States, and served through six successive congresses as a democrat. In 1813 he was appointed superintendent of military supplies, and during 1817-29 was second comptroller of the treasury. He died April 7, 1845, in Washington, D. C.
Cutt, Richard Dominicus
soldier, surveyor, was born Sept. 21, 1817, in Washington, D. C. In 1855 he was appointed United States surveyor upon the international fisheries commission for the settlement of the limits of the fishing grounds between the United States and the British dominions in North America.
In the civil war he was on the staff of Gen. Henry W. Halleck, and received the brevet rank of brigadier-general of volunteers in March, 1865. He died Dec. 13, 1883, in Washington, D. C.
Cutter, Calvin
physician, surgeon, author, was born May 1, 1807, in Jaffrey, N. H. He commanded forces in Kansas in 1856; and was president of the military council of that state. During 1861-64 he was surgeon of the twenty-first regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry. He was the author of Cutter's Physiology. He died March 25, 1880, in Greene, Maine.
Cutter, Charles Ammi
librarian, author, was born March 14, 1837, in Bos ton, Mass. In 1855 he graduated from Harvard; and since 1869 has been librarian of the Boston Athenæum. He has prepared a new classification for libraries; and written Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue. He is also the author of Boston Athenæum: How to Get Books, with an explanation of the new way of marking books; and has edited Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenæum, in five volumes. Since 1881 he has edited the Library Journal of New York city.
Cutter, Ephraim
physician, inventor, was born Sept. 1, 1832, in Woburn, Mass. He practiced his profession in New York; and in 1887 the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by the faculty of Iowa college for his inventions, improvements and contributions to medical science.
Cutter, George Washington
poet, was born in 1801 in Massachusetts.
He was the author of Buena Vista, and Other Poems; Song of Steam; and Poems National and Patriotic. He died Dec. 24, 1865, in Washington, D. C.
Cutting, Francis Brockholst
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1805 in New York city. In 1836 and 1837 he was a member of the New York legislature; from 1853 to 1855 was a representative in congress from his native state; and was leading counsel in almost all important commercial questions in New York from 1840 to 1855. He died June 26, 1870, in New York city.
Cutting, Hiram Adolphus
geologist, author, was born Dec. 23, 1832, in Concord, Vt. He is state geologist of Vermont; and the author of Mining in Vermont; Climatology of Vermont; Microscopic Revelations; Farm Pests; Notes on Building Stones; Lectures on Plants, Fertilization, etc.; Lectures on Milk, etc.; Farm Lectures; and Vermont Agricultural Reports.
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, John Tyler
soldier, business man, congressman, was born Sept. 7, 1844, in Westport, N. Y. He enlisted in Taylor's Chicago battery at the breaking out of the civil war and served until 1862; re-enlisted in 1864 in the Chicago Mercantile battery, in which he served until the expiration of the war.
He removed to California in 1877 and established a wholesale fruit and commission business under the title of The John T. Cutting and company. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a republican.
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.
Cuyler, Jeremiah
lawyer, jurist, was born in Georgia. In 1821 he was appointed district judge of the United States court for the district of Georgia. He died May 7, 1839, in Savannah, Ga. terian