Biography of Captain E.B. Cutter, pages 860 / 861. History of De Kalb County, Indiana. Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885. Captain E.B. Cutter is a native of North Hadley, Hampshire Co., Mass., born Oct. 12, 1831, a son of Elam and Mary (Gaylord) Cutter. His great- grandfather, Jairus Cutter, came to America with the pilgrims in the Mayflower. His great-grandmother, Susan Bowman, was living in Charlestown at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill, and carried water to the gunners. She died in Boston at the age of 100 year, two months and five days. His Grandfather Cutter was a soldier in the Revolution, and his father in the war of 1812. Our subject was reared in his native county, and when sixteen years of age began to learn the carpenter and joiner’s trade of his father. In the spring of 1851 he went to Walworth County, Wis., and raised the first crop of tobacco in that State for a man named Isaiah Hibbard. In 1852 he went to Texas, where he helped to build the first steam saw and grist mill in Bonham, Fannin County, He then built a cotton-gin and mill in Grayson County, and in 1853 went to Santa Fa, New Mexico, for his health, but soon after returned home. In the spring of 1856 he came to Indiana and spent a year in Steuben County, and there met Miss Eliza Vinton, to whom he was married May 19, 1856. May 3, 1857, he moved to Waterloo, where he followed millwrighting and house building till Aug. 6, 1862, when he enlisted in Company A, eighty-eighth Indiana Infantry, as a private. At his first battled, Perryville, he was promoted to Orderly Sergeant; at Stone Rive, to Sergeant, and soon after to Second Lieutenant. He participated in the battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge, and in December, 1863, was commissioned Captain for his bravery, having previously risen to the rake of First Lieutenant. He was subsequently in the Atlanta campaign and in all the engagements of the Fourteenth Army Corps, comprising Dalton, Resaca, Pumpkin Vine, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta, Chattahoochee River, Peach Tree Creek and siege of Atlanta. After the battle of Atlanta he was given a leave of absence, and subsequently was on detached service under General Thomas, and engaged in the battle of Nashville and pursuit after Hood. He was then stationed at Whitesides a short time; soon after joined his former command at Goldsboro, and with it participated in the battle at Raleigh where his command captured a rebel flag, a part of which is still in his possession. At the time of Sherman’s and Johnston’s armistice and Lincoln’s assassination he was at Martha’s Vineyard, N.C., and marched from there with his command to Washington. He participated in the grand review at Washington where he was mustered out, and June 16, 1865, was discharged at Indianapolis. He then returned to Waterloo where he has since resided. He has followed the millwright’s trade, and has built mills in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Florida. He helped to erect the first grist-mill in Waterloo, De Kalb Co. To Captain Cutter and wife have been born six children---Carrie, Faney, Charles, George, Frederick and Earl. He is a member of Waterloo City Lodge, No. 307, F. & A.M., and Wm. Hacker Chapter, No. 63, R.A.M. In Politics he is a Republican and has twice been nominated by his party as candidate for Sheriff. Submitted by: Arlene Goodwin Auburn, Indiana Agoodwin@ctlnet.com