- RUFUS I. CUTTS has been intimately associated with the agricultural
interests of Harmony
- township and that portion of Rock County for the greater
part of his life, and may fairly and justly be written down as
one of the leading farmers of Rock County. He owns a farm in
Section 6, Harmony township, and has made it in every way profitable
and attractive by industry, thrift and careful management.
- Mr. CUTTS was born in Sullivan County, N.H., Dec. 14, 1831,
and is a son of Nathan and
- Mary (BURNHAM) CUTTS, both natives of that State. Five children
were born to them, two of whom are now living: Alonzo K., of
Janesville; and Rufus I. Nathan CUTTS, who was a farmer, came
to Wisconsin in 1844, locating in the town of Fulton, Rock County,
where he lived three years, and then moving into Harmony township
and purchasing a farm of 178 acres. This proved to be his home
for life, for he lived upon it until his death, in 1864, when
he was about sixty-five years old. His widow survived many
years, and was about eighty-two years old when she died. They
were members of the Free-Will Baptist Church, and were in every
way good people and fine neighbors. Nathan CUTTS, his father,
was a farmer in New Hampshire, where he was born . He was killed
in the East by an accident, and left a large family. Mrs. Mary
(BURNHAM) CUTTS' father was born in New Hampshire, of English
descent, and was a sailor. He died in the East, leaving a small
family.
- Rufus I. CUTTS was twelve years old when his parents came
to Rock County, and here his life
- has since been spent. On his father's death he came into
possession of the old homestead by purchasing the interest of
the other heirs. He attended the district school, obtained a
fair business education, and began life for himself by helping
his parents pay for the home place, as he was given eighty acres
of it when he set up a home. He now owns one hundred acres,
and has started his sons farming. On Sept. 22, 1858, he was
married to Miss Sarah G. DAGGETT, a daughter of Henry and Meribah
(JACKSON) DAGGETT. Mr. and Mrs. CUTTS have had three sons and
three daughters, Henry, Acil, Effie, Meribah, Fred and Elnora.
Henry died in early childhood. Acil married Catherine KAHOE,
and lives in Harmony township; they have six children. Lawrence,
Asa, Earl, Howard, Christi and Bertie. Effie married David ALVERSON,
and lives on the old place; they have three children, Claris,
Letha and Anna. Meribah is at home. Fred married Miss Lottie
WELLS, and lives in Harmony township; they have six children,
Lester, Lelah, Gladys, Gertie, Helen and Rufus. Elnora died
in early childhood.
- Mrs. CUTTS' parents were natives of the State of Maine, and
came by the lakes to Milwaukee in
- 1846, making a home in Winnebago County, Ill., where her
father died in 1881, at the age of eighty-six years. Her mother
died in 1878, at the age of eighty-two. They were Free-Will
Baptists. He enlisted in the American army during the war of
1812, though he was never in battle. When a young man he was
a school teacher, but became a farmer in the West. His father,
Edward DAGGETT, was a native of Maine, of English descent, and
died in the East. Mrs. CUTTS was twelve years old when she came
to Wisconsin with her parents, and she has lived in Rock County
for over forty-two years. Her grandmother, Elizabeth GRINDELL,
lived to be one hundred and four years old.
- Mr. CUTTS is a Republican. He has lived in Rock County for
over fifty-six years, and during that
- long period has attended steadily to his business, proved
a kind friend and a good neighbor, and now in his old age has
well-earned rest and peace.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 270-271.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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