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NAME CUTTER 276 DABNEY in whom new vocal bands were made by scissors, recovered phonation." Dr. Cutter married Rebecca L. Sullivan and had nine children. He married, for a second wife, Ellen Bigelow Wright of Worcester, May 28, 1881. She died in 1896. In his later years Dr. Cutter wrote much on food and its relation to health and disease. Trans. Amer. Laryngol. Asso., 1917. Biog. Sketch of Dr. Ephraim Cutter, by J. M. Toner, M.D. Men of America, New York, 1908. J. W. Leonard. Who's Who in America, 1916-17, vol. ix. Cutter, George Rogers (1840-1891) George Rogers Cutter, son of Stephen and Mary Sanford Cutter, was born in New York City on March 21, 1840, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., on February 12, 1891. He was of American ancestry for several generations. His father, Stephen Cutter, was born at Wood- bridge, N. J., in 1809, and his mother, Mary Sanford, was born in Catskill, N. Y., in 1812. Stephen Cutter, residing in New York and prominent in work for the Prison Reform Association, died in 1885. George R. Cutter studied with Drs. Griscom, Agnew and Willard Parker and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1861, and soon after entered the army and served through the Civil War as surgeon of the 127th Regiment of New York Volunteers from 1862 to 1865, and was mustered out with the rank of major. After the war he went to Heidelberg and con- tinued his studies there for five years. This period greatly influenced his subsequent career and gave him the command of German which enabled him to prepare the excellent first work of its kind, "A EHctionary of German Terms used in Medicine," which was pirated by a sub- sequent compiler. Cutter practised at 228 East 12th Street, New York, and then moved to Brooklyn, where for years his office was at 52 Bedford Avenue. He married in 1880, Esther, daughter of Gertrude Martense and John D. Prince of Flatbush, L. I. His wife and two daughters, Mrs. T. A. Armstrong and Mrs. Alfred E. Clegg, survived him. Dr. Cutter began his career in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary as resident surgeon and was afterward placed upon the staff, being made surgeon in 1877. His connection with the Infirmary covered twenty years. He was noteworthy for fidelity, promptness and zeal and unflagging industry. He was also prompt to adopt new methods. Gifted with linguistic talents, his reading was wide. He was long a member of the Staff of St. Catherine's Hospital, Brooklyn. He was a member of the New York Ophthalmological and the American Ophthalmological societies. A busy man and though never enjoying robust health, he managed to accomplish much work. He translated Heinrich Prey's "Compendium of Histology" in 1872 and "Microscopical Technology" by the same author in 1876, and a "Dictionary of German Terms used in Medicine" in 1879. Lewis H. Taylor. Cuyler, John M. (1810?-1884) John M. Cuyler, surgeon in the United States Army, was born in Georgia about 1810. He entered the army as assistant surgeon in 1834, having passed the rigid examination in- stituted in 1833. He took part in the Greek War of 1838 and in the Seminole War of 1840; went through the Mexican War and in 1847 was promoted to be major and surgeon. He was at West Point from 1848 to 1855. Early in the Civil War he was senior med- ical officer at Fort Monroe where he organized the medical department of the armies congre- gated there; later he was medical inspector and acting medical inspector-general. He was on examining boards and "sought to uphold a high professional standard among army surgeons." In 1862 he was made lieutenant- colonel and medical inspector, and in 1865 was breveted brigadier-general ; in 1876 he received the rank of colonel. At the close of the war he became medical director of important de- partments ; he retired in 1882 and died at Morristown, New Jersey, April 26, 1884. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1887. Dabney, WilHam Cecil (1849-1894). This physician of Huguenot descent, the name originally D'Aubigne, was born in Albe- marle County on July 4, 1849. His father was a planter in that county and had married a Miss Gordon of Scotland. His early education was obtained at home from private tutors, then he entered the Uni- versity of Virginia in 1866, and studied medi- cine for two years, graduating in 1868. For one year he was in a Baltimore hospital as resident physician ; and for another at Big Lick, now Roanoke, Virginia. On account of his health he then returned to Albemarle County and farmed for two years, after which he resumed practice in Charlottesville. He was a member of the Medical Society of Virginia, the Association of American Phy- sicians, and the Southern Surgical and Gyne- cological Association ; in 1886, professor of the practice of medicine and obstetrics in the Uni- versity of Virginia, which chair he filled with benefit to the university until his death.