'71" (5 vols., Boston, 1874–'82), and has been a contributor to the "Nation" for the past twenty years. Since January. 1881, he has edited the "Library Journal" (New York), and was president of the American Library Association, 1887–'89.
May 21, 1863, Mr. Cutter was married to Sarah Fayerweather, daughter of Charles John Appleton, of Cambridge. They have three children: Louis Fayerweather, Roland Norcross, and Gerald Clifford Cutter.
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
Leonard R. Cutter.
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.
Daggett, Handel N., son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Maxcy) Daggett, was born in Attleborough, Bristol county, January 27, 1821.
His education was gained by attending the common schools of Attleborough, Day's Academy, Wrentham, three years, and two years in Perkins's Academy, Attleborough.
Mr. Daggett commenced business as manufacturer of print cloths at Falls Village, Attleborough, January, 1844, in connection with his brother, Homer M. Daggett, and continued in this business several years under the firm name of H. N. & H. M. Daggett. This firm was dissolved in 1855. In 1861 Mr. Daggett began the manufacture of mohair braids, his being the first establishment of the kind in the country. This proved remunerative under the protective tariff of 1862. He still continues the manufacture of braids of all varieties, and on an extensive scale, as sole owner.
Previous to 1861, mohair, as well as alpaca braids, were imported from England, France and Germany. In less than three years after the manufacture was begun here with American machinery, the foreign article was driven out of the market, the American braids being of a quality far superior to the foreign.
