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geon and chief commandant of the fortress, but became a victim to a general contagion and died at Louisburg. N.S., in March, 1746.

CUTTER, Am mi Ruhamah, physician, was born at North Yarmouth, Maine, March 15, 1735; son of the Rev. Ammi Ruhamah and Dorotliy (Bradbury) Cutter. He was graduated at Har- vard in 1752, and in 1755 was admitted to practise medicine. He was in the same year ap- pointed surgeon in a body of rangers under Robert Rogers, and served on the frontiers in the war with the Indians. He served in Col. Na- thaniel Meserve's New Hampshire regiment in Rogers's expedition against the French at Crown Point, 1756-58, and returning to Portsmouth, N.H., he was married, Nov. 2, 1758, to Hannah, daughter of Charles and Mary (Kelly) Treadwell. He engaged in private practice until 1777 when congress reorganized the medical department and appointed him physician-general of the east- ern department, in which office he served until 1778. He was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of New Hampshire. He was for many years president of the New Hamp- shire medical society. Harvard conferred upon him the honorary degree of M.D. in 1792. He died in Portsmouth, N.H., Dec. 8, 1820.

CUTTER, Calvin, physician, was born in Jaffrey, N.H., May 1, 1807; son of John and Mary (Batchelder) Cutter. He studied medicine under his uncle. Dr. Nehemiah Cutter of Pepperell, attended lectures at Bowdoin, Dartmouth and Harvard, and was graduated in medicine at Dart- mouth iu 1831. After three years' practice at Rochester, N.H., he received private instruction from Dr. Valentine Mott of New York city and from Dr. George B. McClellan of Philadelphia, Pa. He practised in Nashua, N.H., 1834-37, and in Dover, N.H., 1837-41. In 1842 he determined to devote himself to educating the masses in the rudiments of anatomy, physiology and hj-giene, and for fourteen years he travelled from place to place visiting nearly all the states in the union and lecturing before schools, colleges, teachers' institutes, and popular audiences. He was an earlj^ abolitionist and in 1856 was selected by the Emigrant aid company of Boston, Mass., to con- vey a supply of Shai-p's rifles to the free-state men of Kansas, which difficult task he success- fully accomplished. He remained in the terri- tory for more than a year helping the cause of freedom. In the civil war he was regimental and brigade surgeon and afterward became sur- geon-in-chief of the 9th corps, army of the Potomac. He was twice wounded and at the battle of Bull Run was taken prisoner. He published: Cutter's Anatomy and Physiology (1845, 6th edition 1847) ; TJie Physiological Family Physician (1845) ; Physiology for Children (1846) ;

First Book on Anatomy and Physiology (1848, revised edition, 1852). He died in Warren, Mass., June 20, 1872.

CUTTER, Charles Ammi, librarian, was born in Boston. Mass., March 14, 1837; son of Caleb Champney and Hannah (Biglow), grandson of Ammi and Elizabeth (Cutler), great-grandson of Ammi and Esther (Winship), great ^ grandson of Ammi and Esther (Pierce), great^ grandson of Deacon John and Lydia (Harrington), great* grandson of William and Rebecca (Rolfe), great* grandson of Richard and Elizabeth, and great^ grandson of Elizabeth Cutter, who emi- grated from England to New England about 1640. He was graduated from Harvard in 1855 and from the Cambridge divinity school in 1859. He was assistant in the cataloguing department of Har- vard college library, 1860-68, and from Jan. 1, 1869, to May, 1893, was librarian of the Boston Athenffium. The next year and a half was spent in Europe. In August, 1894, he became librarian of the Forbes library in Northampton, Mass. He edited the Library Journal, New Y'ork, 1881-93, and is the author of Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue (1876) ; Boston Athenamm : How to Get Books, with an Eo:planation of the Xew Way of Marking Books (1882) ; Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenocum, 1S07-71 (5 vols., 1874-82) ; Expansive Classification, Part 1 (1891-93), Part 2 (1899).

CUTTER, Eunice Powers, reformer, was born iu Warren, Mass., Oct. 16, 1819. She re- ceived a good education and was preceptress of the Quobaog seminary in her native town. She was married to Dr. Calvin Cutter and travelled throughout New England lecturing to women on the laws of health, 1848-56. In 1856, she and her husband removed to Kansas in the interest of the Emigrant aid society and as friends of the free-state party. She furnished to John Brown the cartridges used in the Osawatomie liglit and was the custodian and messenger of the first ac- counts of Kansas affairs forwarded to Chicago, 111. After the settlement of the Kansas trouble they returned to Warren, where slie assisted her husband in preparing his textbooks on an- atomy and physiology. She revised the works in 1871 and Avi-ote a history of Warren and two histories of Worcester county after 1880. She died in Warren, Mass., May 10, 1893.

CUTTER, George Francis, naval officer, was born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 30, 1819; son of Edward and Ruth (Torrey) Cutter; grandson of Annie and Esther (Winship) Cutter, and of Joshua and Ruth (Bates) Torrey, and a descend- ant in the seventh generation from Richard Cutter, who came to America with his mother, Elizabeth, about 1640. He was appointed a cap- tain's clerk in the U.S. navy, April 19, 1838;