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purser, June T). 1844; aiul \v;is promoted pay-
master, June'^'J. lyGO. He served on the Ti-K.rtoii,
oflF the coast of Africa. 1H44-4."); on the Albany,
liome squadron. 184()-.")0. and was captured hy
the Mexicans. He was stationeil on the Miisxa-
chnsetts. Pacific squadron, iy54-.")T; at I'ortsmoutli
navy yard, 1858-GO. and on the Richtiioud. West-
ern Gulf squadron, 1861-6:\ In 1863 lie Was fleet
paymaster of the North Atlantic stpiadron. After
tiie war he was successive!}' ins])ect()r of pro-
visions and clothing and i)ayniaster-o:('neral. till
his retirement in 1881. He died in Wasiiington,
D.C. Sept. 1. 1S!)().
CUTTER, George Washington, poet, was born in Massachusetts in 1801. He removed to Kentucky, where he practiced law till the Mexi- can war broke out in 1846. He then raised and commanded a company of infantry. Afterward he was a political orator, and obtained a clerk- ship in Washington. He published three volumes of poems. His most jtopular piece is Tlte Song of Steam. He died in Washington, D.C, Dec, 24, 1865.
CUTTER, William Richard, author, was born in Woburn, Mass., Aug. 17, 1847; son of Dr. Benjamin and ^Mary ( Whittemore) Cutter. He was educated at the Norwich, Vt., university and at the Sheffield scientific school, Yale college, but was not graduated. He was appointed li-
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brarian of Woburn public library, March 1, 1882,
and gave his leisure to the study of library
science and to historical and genealogical re-
search. Norwich university gave him the hono-
rary degree of A.M. in 1893. He wrote with
Benjamin Cutter, lIistoi-y of the Cutter Family of
Xeio Eiifjland (1871-75): and History of Arlinfjton,
Mass. (1880); and edited Lieut. Samuel Thomp-
son's Diary trhile Servinrj in the French and Indian
War, 17 as (1896). He also prepared a mono-
graph: Journal of a Forton Pri.'<oner. Emjland,
sketches of Arlington and Woburn, ^lass., and
articles on subjects connected with library
science and on historical and genealogical mat-
ters for periodical literature.
CUTTING, Hiram Adolphus, scientist, was
born at Concord. Vt., Dec. 23, 1832; son of
Stephen C. and Eliza (Darling) Cutting. His
paternal grandfather was one of the first settlers
of Concord, Vt., and on his mother's side he de-
scended from Gen. James Reed of the Revolu-
tionary army, and in the twenty-third degree,
from Henry II., King of England. He taught
school, attended St. Johnsbury academy, en-
gaged in trade, afterward studied medicine and
had extensive practice, but devoted his attention
chiefly to scientific subjects. He was curator of
the Vermont state natural history collections in
1870, and the same year was appointed state geol-
ogist. He was secretary of the board of agri-
culture, 1880-80, chairmai. of the fish commission,
1880-85, special examining surgeon for the U.S.
pension office, 1873-88; vice-president of the
United States forestry congress, and forest com-
missioner for Vermont: lecturer on science at
Norwich university; meteorological observer for
the United States signal service, and Vermont
statistical agent for the department of agricult-
ure. He founded in Lunenburg, the Cutting
librarj- of seventeen thousand volumes and the
Cutting museum of natural history of twenty-
eight thousand specimens. He was a member of
seventy-nine scientific and medical societies in
America and Europe. He received from Norwich
university the honorarj^ degrees of A.i\I. in 1868,
and Ph.D. in 1869, and from Dartmouth that of
M.D. in 1870. He made a large collection of
birds and minerals for the state of Vermont,
published three reports on agriculture, three on
fisheries, eight on natural histor3% and three
volumes of lectures upon scientific subjects. He
died in Lunenburg, Vt., April 18, 1892.
CUTTING, John Tyler, representative, was born in Westport, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1844; son of Sewell and Mary Cutting: grandson of Jonas Cutting, and a descendant of Col. Jonas Cutting. In 1855 he removed to Wisconsin, and shortly afterward to Illinois, acquiring his education in the latter state. In 1861 he enlisted in Taylor's Chicago battery and served until 1862, when he was discharged for disability. He re-enlisted, Jan. 4, 1864, and served until the close of the war. In 1877 he removed to California and en- gaged in the wholesale fruit and commission business. He was for nine years connected with the National guard of California, holding the commissions of lieutenant, major, colonel, and brigadier-general. He was a Republican repre- sentative from California in the 52d congress, 1891-93.
CUTTING, Sewal! Sylvester, editor, was born at Windsor, Vt., Jan. 19, 1.S13. He was prepared for college at South Reading, Mass., in 1829, and decided to become a lawyer, but after studying
