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NAME CUTTER 274 CUTTER married to Hannah, daughter of Charles and Mary Kelly Treadwell of that town. From this time, Dr. Cutter practised at Portsmouth or travelled about New Hampshire with his classmate, Governor Wentworth. Old documents mention his presence at Wolfe- borough, named after General James Wolfe, of whom Cutter used to say, that had he lived American independence could never have been achieved, so superior to all the other British military leaders was he, in Dr. Cutter's opinion. I also find that Dr. Cutter gave a guinea to the famous Dartmouth College punch-bowl, presented by the Governor in 1771, and another interesting document shows that Dr. Cutter imported into the port of Portsmouth a large invoice of cortex peruviana about this time, for use in his practice. When the medical service of the United States was reorganized in 1777, Dr. Cutter was appointed physician general of the eastern department, taking charge of two hospitals with three hundred beds at Fishkill and Peek- skill-on-the-Hudson. His health gave out at the end of a year of this laborious duty and he retired permanently to Portsmouth. As time went on he began to be considered the leading physician in that interesting old town ; when his son William, one of ten children, obtained his medical degree they worked to- gether agreeably, and it was a serious blow to the father when the son died first, and very suddenly. It took him long to recover from this separation. He remained, however, in- terested in his profession to the last and wa's very fond of showing to medical visitors his interesting cases, amongst them one of pul- • monary tuberculosis with metastasis to an eye, with blindness, but with a cure of the constitutional diathesis. Dr. Cutter had an honorary medical degree from Harvard in 1792; was an incorporator in 1791 of the New Hampshire Medical So- ciety, and was president from 1799 to 1811 and an honorary member of the Massachusetts Medical Society from 1783 until his death. He passed away December 8, 1820, aged eighty-five, and his widow survived him until January 20, 1832, when she died, aged ninety- seven. Born as I was in the house in Portsmouth in which Dr. Ammi Ruhamah Cutter prac- tised for several years, it has interested me more than usual to write briefly concerning Dr. Cutter's varied medical career. James A. Sp.'lding. The Cutter Genealogy, 1871-1875. MSS. of Dr. Jeremiah Barker. Cutter, Calvin (1807-1873) Calvin Cutter was born in Jaflrey, New Hampshire, May 1, 1807, and died in Warren, Mass., June 20, 1873. He was a pupil at the New Ipswich Academy and afterward taught in Wilton, N. H., and Ashby, Mass. In 1820 he studied medicine, graduated M. D. at Dart- mouth in 1832 and practised his profession in Rochester, N. H., from 1831 until 1833; in Nashua from 1834 until 1837; and in Dover from 1838 until 1841. Between 1842 and 1856 Dr. Cutter visited twenty-nine states of the Union, delivering medical lectures. In 1847 he began the compilation of "Cutter's Physi- ology," a text-book for schools and colleges, of which prior to 1871 about 500,000 copies had been sold. It was translated into several oriental languages. In 1856 Dr. Cutter was chosen to convey a supply of Sharpe's rifles to Kansas, a hazardous task which was successfully per- formed. Later in the same year he led into Kansas the Worcester armed company of 60 men and also the force known as "Jim Lane's army," which he commanded for nearly a year. He was president of the military council in Kansas and instrumental in the capture of Colonel Titus. In 1861 he became surgeon of the 21st Massachusetts Infantry, serving in the National Army nearly three years. He was twice wounded and made prisoner at Bull Run. During most of his term of service he had charge of the medical depot of the 9th army corps as surgeon-in-chief. Amherst conferred on him her A. M. in 1871. Appleton's* Cyclopedia of Amer. Biog., 1888, vol. it, 48-49. Gen'l Cat.. Dartmouth Coll.. 17691910. Cutter, Ephraim (1832-1917) Ephraim Cutter was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, September 1, 1832, and died at West Falmouth, in the same state, April 24, 1917. His father, Benjamin Cutter, M. D., A. M., practised in Woburn from 1827 to 1864. From him he inherited his love of medicine and from his maternal grandfather, Amos Whittemore, the ability to invent, and the capacity to direct a mechanic what to do. Dr. Cutter fitted for college at Warren Academy and graduated from Yale in 1852, receiving the degree of M. D. from Harvard in 1856 and from the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1857. His preceptors in medicine were his father, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry I. Bowditch, and Josiah P. Cooke. He received his degree of LL. D. from Grinnell College in 1857. He was a member of many American and