Windham

CUTTING, William B.

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p 91 
(portrait p 91)

William B. CUTTING, of Westminster [Windham County, Vermont], was born 20 
November 1827 in Green River [Windham County, Vermont], son of Samuel and 
Hannah (BRACKETT) CUTTING. Receiving a common school education, at the age 
of sixteen Mr. CUTTING commenced his business life as a clerk, and afterwards 
engaged in the manufacture of paper in connection with other mercantile 
pursuits. In 1853 he removed to Boston [Suffolk County, Massachusetts] and 
entered the employ of the Old Colony Railroad, and also started in the 
grocery trade. In 1854 he commenced to work for the Indianapolis & 
Cincinnati Railroad Company, continuing until April 1861, when ill health 
compelled his removal to Kalamazoo [Kalamazoo County], Michigan, where he 
formed a partnership to carry on the grocery and produce business, also the 
manufacture of lumber and barrel staves. He was again forced by sickness to 
return to the East, where he took up his residence at Springfield [Hampden 
County], Massachusetts, afterwards in Brattleboro [Windham County, Vermont], 
and finally, in 1871, settled on a farm in Westminster West [Windham County], 
where he now resides.

A Free Soiler prior to the formation of the Republican party [created in 1854], 
Mr. CUTTING took an active part in the FREMONT [1856] and LINCOLN [1860, 
1864] political campaigns and continued for some time to act with that party, 
but differs from it on the tariff question, and is now an Independent. 
Elected to the state senate in 1882, he has held most of the town offices, 
and has been justice of the peace for twenty years. He has been a member of 
several organizations of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Master of 
Maple Grove Grange of Westminster West. Unitarian in his religious views. 
On 12 August 1851 he [William B. CUTTING] married Mary A., daughter of Grant 
W. and Matilda (CAMPBELL) RANNEY. By her he had six children: William L., 
Mary R., Charles C., Frank H., Stella M., and Nelly G.

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