One of a Thousand/Cutter, Leonard Richardson
Cutter, Leonard Richardson, the son of Daniel and Sally (Jones) Cutter, was born in Jaffrey, Cheshire county, N. H., July 1, 1825, under the shadow of the old Monadnock mountain. He obtained his education in the common schools and academy of his native town.
Until twenty years of age, his time not devoted to study was spent on the farm, with the exception of three terms of winter school taught by him between the ages of seventeen and twenty.
Mr. Cutter went to Boston in 1845, and found employment in a grocery store, where everything was sold in the line of groceries, save intoxicating liquors. After serving a six years' clerkship, he went into business for himself, in which he continued ten years. He is now engaged in the real estate business in the city of Boston, and still carries out the practical side of his theory of non-lease of property to be used for sale of intoxicating liquors.
Mr. Cutter was married in Brighton, 1852, to Mercy, daughter of Phineas and Mercy (Fairbanks) Taylor. Of this union are two children: Agnes E. and Emma A. Cutter.
Mr. Cutter was an assessor in Boston, 1859, '60 and '61; was alderman 1871, '72, '73 and '74; chairman of the board one year, and acting mayor the last month of 1873, the mayor having resigned. He was a member of the Boston water board six
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years, and water commissioner eight years, retiring in 1883. He served as chairman of the board four years.
On retirement of Mr. Cutter from his connections with the water board, special resolutions commendatory of faithful performance of duty were tendered him by the board.