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served on the editorial staff of the Evening Post and as a teaclier at Eagleswood, N.Y., in the meantime acting jis tutor for a son of the Rev. Dr. Bellows. In June, 18o9, he visited Euroi»e for travel and study, and on returning to New York engaged in journalistic work. He raised and equipped a company for service in the civil war in 1801, but an accident tliat affected his spine prevented his going with the troops to the front. He conducted a classical school in Worcester, Mass., lS6'2-(}4. and in 186.>, wliile in Europe, was apixnnted assistant professor of modern lan- guages in Harvard college. In 1870 he was raised to a full professorship of modern languages. He published: War l'n,ms (1867); and ,<«Y/7?« (1868). He died at Cambri.lge. ilass., Dec. 27, 1870.

CUTLER, Ephriam, pioneer, was born in Ed- gartown, Mass., April 13, 1767; eldest son of Manasseh and Mary (Balch) Cutler. He was brought up by his grandparents in Killingly, Conn., as a farmer, and acquired a knowledge of mathematics and surveying. He was agent of the Ohio conipanj- in which liis father was interested, obtained for the enterprise twenty subscribers, and was appointed their representa- tive in 1788, to look after their interests in the distribution of the eight-aci'e lots drawn for at Providence, R.I., April 8, 178i< In 1790 he en- gaged in merchandising and not being success- ful, he determined to .settle on land on the ^Muskingum, which he had acquired through liis connection with the Ohio companj-. "With his wife and four children he left Killingly, reaching his new home June 18, 1795, after an adventur- ous and tiresome journey of more than a month. He located at Waterford above Marietta, and en- gaged in surveying the lands as distributed by the company, and in manufacturing salt. Gov- ernor St. Clair appointed him judge of quarter sessions and of the court of common pleas. In 1797 he exchanged his property at Marietta for an estate in Ames township in the wilderness, where he cleared a few acres, built a log cabin and attended court at Marietta. He presided over three courts periodically and received as compensation during his seven years' service Vjarely enough to pay his expenses when away from home. He cavLsed to be incorporated a ])ublic librarj- for Ames and Dover town.shij)s, tlie first in the west, obtaining funds for its sup- port by the .sale of furs procured 1>y native hunters. He wrote: History of the Firxt Stltlemfiit of Amesto>rn, and The First Settlement of Athens county; published in Hildreth's Pioneer Settlers. He died in AniHstown. Oliio, Juh" 8. 18.")3.

CUTLER, Hannah Maria Tracy (Conant), reformer, was born in Becket. Mass., Dec. 2"), 1815; daughter f)f John and Orpha (Johnson) Conant. She was married in 1834 to the Rev.

J. M. Tracy. After liis death in 1843 she pre- pared herself as a teaclier and was matron of the Columbus, Ohio, deaf and dumb asylum. 1848-49. In 1851 she visited England as a newspaper corre- spondent at the London Worlds fair and as a delegate from the United States to the i)eace congress. She was married to Samuel Cutler in 1852 and upon removing to Illinois became an advocate of woman's rights. In the civil war she was president of the Western Union aid com- mission. Slie was graduated at the Homteo- pathic college, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1869, and l^ractised medicine in Cobden, 111. She accom- panied her son, J M. Tracy, an artist, to France and was there during the years 1873-75. She wrote: ]]'omnn as she Was, Is, and Should Be (1846) ; Phillijna, or a Woman's Question (1886); and The Fortunes of Michael Doyle (1886). She died in Ocean Springs, Miss., in Februarj', 1896.

CUTLER, Jervis, pioneer, was born in Edgar- town. Mass., Sept. 19, 1768; second son of Manasseh and Mary (Balch) Cutler. He was educated in the village school and entered com- mercial life under Capt. David Pearceof Glouces- ter, who sent him to Europe. When nineteen years old he was one of the first band of settlers who left his father's house at Ipswich, ^lass., Dec. 3, 1787, under the patronage of the Ohio company to settle the lands on the Muskingum river in the Ohio territory. In the midst of the pestilence, famine and debt which overtook the settlers he returned to New England, reacliing home in 1790. He was married in 1794 to Phila- delphia, daughter of Capt. Benjamin Corgill. He returned alone to Ohio in 1802 and engaged in the fur trade on the Miami river, selling his furs in Boston. He was elected captain of a rifle company in Ma}', 1806. and soon after major of Colonel McArthur's regiment of Ohio militia. On May 3, 18S, President Jefferson appointed him captain in the 7th U.S. infantry with orders to open a recruiting office in Cincinnati, Ohio. On Feb. 23, 1809, he was ordered to New Orleans, where he was attached to the command of 3Iaj. Zebulon M. Pike. He was prostrated with yellow fever and returned to Mass;i,cliu.setts, where lie took up engraving on copper. In 1812 he pub- lished "A Topographical Descrii)tion of llie State of Ohio, Indiana Territory and Louisiana, with a concise account of the Indian tribes west of the ^lississippi, to which is added the journal of Mr. Charles Le Raye while a captive with the Sioux nation on the waters of the Missouri river." He illustrated the book with copper plate engravings and printed al>out one thou.sand copies. His work on this book gained for him orders for engraving from Boston and Salem publishers. In 1814 he made the journey to and from Ohio on horseback and in 1817 moved his