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Rh ior Vice-President in 1886. Her life has been devoted to benevolent work, either in private or public channels.

General Young is a Past National Senior Vice-Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was for twelve years a director of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association. General and Mrs. Young are not only appreciated for their ability and their great philanthropic work, but are popular in social life, and have many friends in all sections of the country. They have two children, a son and a daughter. The fonner, Dr. Nelson Holland Young, is assistant superintendent and physician at the Ohio State Hospital for the Insane, which is located at Toledo and has seventeen hundred patients. The daughter is Mrs. Eleanor M. Cunningham, of Brooklyn, N.Y.

ISABEL HEALD was born in Dexter, Me., being the daughter of Otis and Emeline Robinson Seavy Cutler. Her father, moving to Portland in 1852, became the first appraiser at the port, and was holding this office at the time of his death, in May, 1868. He was a man of noble character and excellent judgment, having matters of grave importance submitted to his decision. His wife survived him many years, dying in May, 1884.

Otis Cutler was of the seventh generation of that branch of the Cutler family in New England, whose immigrant progenitor, John by name, died at Hingham, Mass., in February, 1638. It has been said that John Cutler, of Hingham, Mass., came from the vicinity of Norwich, England, in 1637 (see Morse); but this has been questioned. The History of Hingham, Genealogical, vol. ii., states that he had land granted him there, on Broad Cove, in 1635. From John1 the line appears to have descended through Samuel,2 Ebenezer,3 Ebenezer,4 Jonathan,5 and Tarrant,6 to Otis,7 born in 1817 at Royalston, Mass.

From another English-born Cutler, Robert,1 of Charlestown, Mass., was descended the Rev. Timothy Cutler, D.D., the first rector of Christ Church, Boston, and "one of the first scholars of his age in the colonies." Others of this name in America have occupied high rank in the clerical, legal, and medical professions.

An uncle of Mrs. Heald, General Lysander Cutler, had an interesting career. Born in Royalston, Mass., in 1807, he moved to Dexter, Me., when a young man, engaged in business as a woollen manufacturer, and became the most eminent citizen of that place. Later in life he removed to Milwaukee, Wis. Enlisting at the breaking out of the Civil War, he was commissioned Colonel of the Sixth Wisconsin Regiment, served with great honor in the Army of the Potomac, and was afterward promoted to Major-general. He died in 1866.

Mrs. Heald's mother was a lovely character, gentle and conscientious, dispensing words of kindness and the quiet charities which shun publicity. The family home being in Portland during Mrs. Heald's childhood and youth, she was educated in the city schools. In the year 1870 she married John Sumner Heald, claim adjuster of the Maine Central Railroad. Mr. Heald is the grandson of the Hon. Mark Langdon Hill, of Phippsburg, Me., one of the early settlers, a prominent and wealthy man in his day. It was in his faniily barouche that General Lafayette was .taken through the streets of Portland when entertained there during his visit to the United States of America in 1824-25. Mr. Hill's barouche was the most elegant one at hand, and was loaned to Portland for the occasion.

Always of a deeply religious turn of mind, Mrs. Heald became when very young a member of the Episcopal church. She has been a student of creeds, and has. plunged into ancient and modern philosophy. She has studied science, theosophy, and the works of deep thinkers of all ages, not for diversion, but to find truth. Whatever her creed is to-day, her rule of life is most emphatically, "Love thy neighbor." She has the tenderest love and sympathy for children, and has been a willing helper in Sunday-schools. For a number of years she has been active in charitable and club work. It was she who was instrumental in forming the Cumberland Relief Cure, an organization which raised funds to send twenty-five men to the Keely Cure, furnishing and