Arthur N. Cutting is a prominent agriculturist, residing on section 2 Dexter township, Coddington County {SD}. Mr. Cutting was born in Shelburne, Chittenden Co. VT, March 12, 1855, is a son of Hiram B. and Mary (Rowley) Cutting. His father was a Penn. Dutchman, and was born at Highgate, VT in 1827. His mother who was of English descent, was born in Shelburne in 1837. Our subject, who was second in a family of 8 children, removed to Fillmore Co. Minn. With his parents in 1866 and engaged in farming there. His father died in that county in 1871, and Arthur became the main support of the family at an early age (16 years). He managed the farm for some time and two years later purchased a farm in Winneshick Co. Iowa near Hesper. He left the family there and went by himself to Nevada as an employee of Baker Birenzell and Co., a freighting concern. His work consisted of driving one of the conveyances over a route from Winnamucca, Nevada to Silver City, Idaho. He continued this for five years and in 1877, he returned to Iowa. He added to his original purchase near Hesper and took to farming there. Three years later, in 1880, he removed to Dakota and pre-empted a homestead in Coddington Co., upon which he resided for six years. He then secured his present farm which is one of the finest in the township, comprising some 480 acres. The farm is finely improved and over 2/3 cultivated. Mr. Cutting is a Republican and is at present clerk of the school board. He has always been actively engaged in educational work and the welfare of locals schools and has done much work on behalf of the latter.
He is an ardent adovate for a high license and equal suffrage and in religion, a Quaker.
Sept. 4, 1878, Mr. Cutting was married in Iowa to Miss Alice Faucett, a daughter of John P. and Phoebe Faucett and a native of Hesper, Iowa where she was born June 17, 1859.
Mr. and Mrs. Cutting are parents of four children whose name and dates follow:
Mabel Pearl, Sept. 4, 1880
Clifford Granville, Aug. 5, 1882
Ward Arthur, Dec. 13, 1893
Harold Newman, April 24, 1896
(from Memorial and Biographical Record: An Illustrated Compendium of Biography, edited by George Alden Ogle, 1898)
He is an ardent adovate for a high license and equal suffrage and in religion, a Quaker.
Sept. 4, 1878, Mr. Cutting was married in Iowa to Miss Alice Faucett, a daughter of John P. and Phoebe Faucett and a native of Hesper, Iowa where she was born June 17, 1859.
Mr. and Mrs. Cutting are parents of four children whose name and dates follow:
Mabel Pearl, Sept. 4, 1880
Clifford Granville, Aug. 5, 1882
Ward Arthur, Dec. 13, 1893
Harold Newman, April 24, 1896
(from Memorial and Biographical Record: An Illustrated Compendium of Biography, edited by George Alden Ogle, 1898)
Arthur N. Cutting is a prominent agriculturist, residing on section 2 Dexter township, Coddington County {SD}. Mr. Cutting was born in Shelburne, Chittenden Co. VT, March 12, 1855, is a son of Hiram B. and Mary (Rowley) Cutting. His father was a Penn. Dutchman, and was born at Highgate, VT in 1827. His mother who was of English descent, was born in Shelburne in 1837. Our subject, who was second in a family of 8 children, removed to Fillmore Co. Minn. With his parents in 1866 and engaged in farming there. His father died in that county in 1871, and Arthur became the main support of the family at an early age (16 years). He managed the farm for some time and two years later purchased a farm in Winneshick Co. Iowa near Hesper. He left the family there and went by himself to Nevada as an employee of Baker Birenzell and Co., a freighting concern. His work consisted of driving one of the conveyances over a route from Winnamucca, Nevada to Silver City, Idaho. He continued this for five years and in 1877, he returned to Iowa. He added to his original purchase near Hesper and took to farming there. Three years later, in 1880, he removed to Dakota and pre-empted a homestead in Coddington Co., upon which he resided for six years. He then secured his present farm which is one of the finest in the township, comprising some 480 acres. The farm is finely improved and over 2/3 cultivated. Mr. Cutting is a Republican and is at present clerk of the school board. He has always been actively engaged in educational work and the welfare of locals schools and has done much work on behalf of the latter.
He is an ardent adovate for a high license and equal suffrage and in religion, a Quaker.
Sept. 4, 1878, Mr. Cutting was married in Iowa to Miss Alice Faucett, a daughter of John P. and Phoebe Faucett and a native of Hesper, Iowa where she was born June 17, 1859.
Mr. and Mrs. Cutting are parents of four children whose name and dates follow:
Mabel Pearl, Sept. 4, 1880
Clifford Granville, Aug. 5, 1882
Ward Arthur, Dec. 13, 1893
Harold Newman, April 24, 1896
(from Memorial and Biographical Record: An Illustrated Compendium of Biography, edited by George Alden Ogle, 1898)
He is an ardent adovate for a high license and equal suffrage and in religion, a Quaker.
Sept. 4, 1878, Mr. Cutting was married in Iowa to Miss Alice Faucett, a daughter of John P. and Phoebe Faucett and a native of Hesper, Iowa where she was born June 17, 1859.
Mr. and Mrs. Cutting are parents of four children whose name and dates follow:
Mabel Pearl, Sept. 4, 1880
Clifford Granville, Aug. 5, 1882
Ward Arthur, Dec. 13, 1893
Harold Newman, April 24, 1896
(from Memorial and Biographical Record: An Illustrated Compendium of Biography, edited by George Alden Ogle, 1898)
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