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of the Federal Union, Milledgeville, 1831-37. He removed to Mobile, Ala., in 1837, was appointed by the Alabama legislature, judge of the county- court of Mobile in 1840, and was appointed judge of the circuit court in 1852. He died at his home near Mobile. Ala.. Sept. 22. 1881.

CUTLER, Augustus William, representative, was born in Morristown, X.J., Oct. 22, 1827; son of Gen. Joseph and Elizabeth P. (Cook) Cutler; grand.son of Abijah and Dinah (Lee) Cutler; great-grandson of the Hon. Silas Condit, a mem- ber of the first continental congress and pi-es- ident of the council of safety; and a direct descendant on his father's side of Sir Ger^jase Cutler, Baronet, of Yarmouth, England, whose second son, Capt. John Cutler, canie to America in 1660, and was well known during the Indian war with King Philip. Augustus was admitted to the bar in 1850, was prosecutor of the pleas, 1856-61, and a member of the New Jersey senate, 1871-74. He was a representative in the 44th and 45th congresses, 1875-79; declined re-election to the 46th congress, and was an unsuccessful can- didate for the 47th and 55th congresses. In 1861 he drew the original free school bill, and in 1864 he inaugurated the fight against the railroads of the state, to obtain control of and " to secure the proceeds of the sales and rentals of the riparian lands of the state for the benefit of free schools." The contest was successful, and during the first year over a million of dollars was paid into the free school fund. This and other services in the interest of education caused him to be called the " father of the free school system " of New Jer- sey. He introduced in congress the bill creating the department of agriculture; he also introduced and advocated the general railroad 'law, and a bill providing for the back pensions of soldiers; and was active in promoting the passage of the " civil rights ■' bill. He was married in 1S54 to Julia Rebecca Walker of Albany, N.Y., a lineal descendant of Peregrine White, and had tliree sons. Judge Willard Walker Cutler, Dr. Condict Walker Cutler, and the Rev. Frederick Walker Cutler. Mr. Cutler died at his home in Morris- town, N. J., which had been in the family for five generations, having been built hj Silas Condit in 1798. The date of his death is Jan. 1, 1897.

CUTLER, Carroll, educator, was born in Windliam. N.H., Jan. 31, 1829; son of the Rev. Calvin and Rhoda Bartlett (Little) Cutler, and great-grandson of Benoni Cutler of Connecticut, an officer in the Revolutionary army. He was graduated at Phillips Exeter academy in 1850, and at Yale in 1854; was tutor at Yale, 1854-56; was gradttated at Union theological seminary in 1858, and was licensed to preach. On Aug 10, 1858, he was married to Frances Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Joseph H. Gallajrher of Union theo-

logical seminary, and after a sojourn of two years in Europe he accepted the professorship of philosophy and ethics in Western Reserve college in 1860. In 1871 he was elected president of the college, still retaining his chair. In 1880 the college was removed to Cleveland, Ohio, and its name was changed to Adelbert college of West- ern Reserve university, in compliance with the request of Amasa Stone of Cleveland, whose gift of $500,000, in memory of his son, was made under that condition. Dr. Cutler resigned the presidency of the college in 1886, but remained as acting president until 1888. He was professor in Biddle university, Charlotte, N.C., 1888-90, and at Talladega, Ala., 1890-94. He delivered a course of lectures at Lane theological seminary, 1888-89, and several lectures at Allegheny theo- logical seminary, of which he was a director. He received the degree of D.D. from Marietta in 1872. He published: Histoi'y of Westei-ii lieserve College (1876); and Lectures on Ethics (1887). He died at Talladega, Ala., Jan. 25, 1894.

CUTLER, Condict Walker, physician, was born in Morristown, N.J., Feb. 27, 1859; son of Augustus William and Julia Rebecca (Walker) Cutler. He was graduated at the Morristown high school in 1875, and at Rutgers college, scien- tific department, 1879, at the head of his class. In 1882 he was graduated in medicine from the College of physicians and surgeons, Columbia college, as first honor man, winning a }3rize of 8500 for the best exposition of what he had learned during the course. For two years he was interne in the Bellevue and Chambers street hospitals in New York, and in 1887 was instruc- tor in the New York post-graduate college and hospital. In 1888 he was appointed physician- in-chief of the New York dispensary, and in 1889 accepted the chair of dermatology in the Univer- sity of Yermont, at the same time carrying on liis medical jiractice in New York city. He was chosen president of the New York dermatologi- cal society, a member of the American dermato- logical society, a fellow of the New York academy of medicine, and visiting physician to the Randall Island hospitals. He became associate editor of the Epitome of Medicine in 1890, and is the author of; Differential Medical piagnosis (1887); Differential Diagnosis of the Diseases of the Skin (1890); Essen- tials of Physics and Chemistry; Lectures on Derma- tology; The Treatment if Typhoid Fever (1897), and contributions to medical journals.

CUTLER, Elbridge Jefferson, educator, was born in Holliston, Mass.. Dec. 28, 1831; son of Elihu. Jr., and Rebecca T Cutler. He was grad- uated at Harvard in 1853; was tutor in the school of the Rev. T. D. P. Stone. Norwich, Conn.. 1853- 54, and conducted a private school at Holliston, 1854-56. He removed in 1856 to New York city.