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purser, June T). 1844; aiul \v;is promoted pay- master, June'^'J. lyGO. He served on the Ti-K.rtoii, oflF the coast of Africa. 1H44-4."); on the Albany, liome squadron. 184-.")0. and was captured hy the Mexicans. He was stationeil on the Miisxa- chnsetts. Pacific squadron, iy54-.")T; at I'ortsmoutli navy yard, 1858-GO. and on the Richtiioud. West- ern Gulf squadron, 1861-6:\ In 1863 lie Was fleet paymaster of the North Atlantic stpiadron. After tiie war he was successive!}' ins])ectr of pro- visions and clothing and i)ayniaster-o:('neral. till his retirement in 1881. He died in Wasiiington, D.C. Sept. 1. 1S!).

CUTTER, George Washington, poet, was born in Massachusetts in 1801. He removed to Kentucky, where he practiced law till the Mexi- can war broke out in 1846. He then raised and commanded a company of infantry. Afterward he was a political orator, and obtained a clerk- ship in Washington. He published three volumes of poems. His most jtopular piece is Tlte Song of Steam. He died in Washington, D.C, Dec, 24, 1865.

CUTTER, William Richard, author, was born in Woburn, Mass., Aug. 17, 1847; son of Dr. Benjamin and ^Mary ( Whittemore) Cutter. He was educated at the Norwich, Vt., university and at the Sheffield scientific school, Yale college, but was not graduated. He was appointed li-

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brarian of Woburn public library, March 1, 1882, and gave his leisure to the study of library science and to historical and genealogical re- search. Norwich university gave him the hono- rary degree of A.M. in 1893. He wrote with Benjamin Cutter, lIistoi-y of the Cutter Family of Xeio Eiifjland (1871-75): and History of Arlinfjton, Mass. (1880); and edited Lieut. Samuel Thomp- son's Diary trhile Servinrj in the French and Indian War, 17 as (1896). He also prepared a mono- graph: Journal of a Forton Pri.'<oner. Emjland, sketches of Arlington and Woburn, ^lass., and articles on subjects connected with library science and on historical and genealogical mat- ters for periodical literature.

CUTTING, Hiram Adolphus, scientist, was born at Concord. Vt., Dec. 23, 1832; son of Stephen C. and Eliza (Darling) Cutting. His paternal grandfather was one of the first settlers of Concord, Vt., and on his mother's side he de- scended from Gen. James Reed of the Revolu- tionary army, and in the twenty-third degree, from Henry II., King of England. He taught school, attended St. Johnsbury academy, en- gaged in trade, afterward studied medicine and had extensive practice, but devoted his attention chiefly to scientific subjects. He was curator of the Vermont state natural history collections in 1870, and the same year was appointed state geol- ogist. He was secretary of the board of agri- culture, 1880-80, chairmai. of the fish commission, 1880-85, special examining surgeon for the U.S. pension office, 1873-88; vice-president of the United States forestry congress, and forest com- missioner for Vermont: lecturer on science at Norwich university; meteorological observer for the United States signal service, and Vermont statistical agent for the department of agricult- ure. He founded in Lunenburg, the Cutting librarj- of seventeen thousand volumes and the Cutting museum of natural history of twenty- eight thousand specimens. He was a member of seventy-nine scientific and medical societies in America and Europe. He received from Norwich university the honorarj^ degrees of A.i\I. in 1868, and Ph.D. in 1869, and from Dartmouth that of M.D. in 1870. He made a large collection of birds and minerals for the state of Vermont, published three reports on agriculture, three on fisheries, eight on natural histor3% and three volumes of lectures upon scientific subjects. He died in Lunenburg, Vt., April 18, 1892.

CUTTING, John Tyler, representative, was born in Westport, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1844; son of Sewell and Mary Cutting: grandson of Jonas Cutting, and a descendant of Col. Jonas Cutting. In 1855 he removed to Wisconsin, and shortly afterward to Illinois, acquiring his education in the latter state. In 1861 he enlisted in Taylor's Chicago battery and served until 1862, when he was discharged for disability. He re-enlisted, Jan. 4, 1864, and served until the close of the war. In 1877 he removed to California and en- gaged in the wholesale fruit and commission business. He was for nine years connected with the National guard of California, holding the commissions of lieutenant, major, colonel, and brigadier-general. He was a Republican repre- sentative from California in the 52d congress, 1891-93.

CUTTING, Sewal! Sylvester, editor, was born at Windsor, Vt., Jan. 19, 1.S13. He was prepared for college at South Reading, Mass., in 1829, and decided to become a lawyer, but after studying