Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Cutler, Clinton E B 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

CLINTON E. B. CUTLER. In the capacity of supervisor it has been the aim and 
effort of Mr. Cutler to advance the progress of Joliet and promote the 
interests of his fellow-citizens. At the time of his appointment to this 
office he was the youngest man ever appointed or elected to a similar position 
in the state, and the fact that the appointment came from the town board, with 
a majority of Republican members, while he was known to be one of the most 
active Democrats in the county, is in itself a tribute to his ability and 
recognized worth. The long illness of his predecessor, Henry Spangler, whose 
assistant he had been, threw upon him the entire responsibility of the office 
for some time before he was selected to occupy the position; and it was the 
ability displayed by him in the conduct of affairs that led the board, upon 
the death of Mr. Spangler, to appoint him the latter's successor, in January, 
1897. In the spring of 1898 he was nominated on the Democratic ticket for the 
office and was elected for two years, receiving a majority of three hundred 
and two votes. For some years he has been one of the most active Democrats in 
his city, and it was largely through his efforts that the younger element of 
Democracy was organized and received proper recognition in the party. He was a 
prominent candidate for membership on the state central committee, but 
withdrew in favor of John B. Mount, the present mayor of Joliet. Frequently he 
has served as a delegate to state conventions of his party. He was reared in 
the Republican faith, but on attaining manhood and making a study of the 
issues of the age, he gave his influence to the party that declared for free 
trade and free silver. His interest in politics is keen; yet, as an office 
holder, he has avoided a spirit of narrow partisanship, but has endeavored to 
do his duty honorably and impartially. He believes in justice, consistency and 
the following of the law. As a member of the board he has always striven to 
act with fairness toward all. One of his most important acts was the 
introducing of a resolution providing that all work on county buildings or 
under county control should be done by union citizen labor; while the 
resolution was lost, its spirit showed that he aimed to promote the interests 
of the laboring men of his county. Besides acting as supervisor he is also 
overseer of the poor. The Cutler family descends from four brothers who 
crossed in the "May flower.'' Three of these were married, and one a bachelor. 
The descendants of the three are numerous in New England and New York. Lyman 
Cutler, a native of Providence, R. I., and the son of a Revolutionary soldier, 
himself served in the war of 1812. He removed to Vermont, thence to Chenango 
County, N. Y., and later to Sandusky, Ohio, finally removing to Chicago. He 
married Miss Hamilton, daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, of Scotch descent. 
Their son, Azro C., was born in Chenango County, N. Y., and at thirteen years 
of age ran away from home, working his way via the lakes to Chicago. Afterward 
he followed the lakes for many years. During the Civil war he raised a company 
and also enlisted for personal service, but was rejected. Later he engaged in 
the manufacture of lumber and shingles in Michigan, after which he 
manufactured brick in Chicago and then engaged in mining in Colorado. In 1869 
he bought a farm in Homer Township, this county, and remained there until 
1894, when, on account of ill health, he rented the place and came to Joliet. 
For eight years he was a member of the Chicago police force. During the early 
days he crossed the plains a number of times to Colorado, and was in the Plum 
Creek massacre in that state. While in the west he was sergeant-of-arms in the 
Colorado legislature. He married Elizabeth Miller, who was born in Chicago of 
Swiss parentage, and was reared in Homer Township, this county. They were the 
parents of two children, of whom the younger is Ida L., a teacher in the 
Joliet public schools. The subject of this sketch was born in Homer Township 
July 3, 1871. He completed the studies of the Joliet grammar schools and then 
spent two years in the high school. In 1891 he began to teach in his home 
district, and for two years followed teaching. In the fall of 1893 he began to 
study law with Donahoe & McNaughton. December 12, 1894, he entered the law 
department of the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, from which he 
graduated June 5, 1895, with the degree of LL. B. May 22 of the same year he 
passed a rigid examination creditably at Ottawa and was admitted to the bar of 
Illinois. In 1896 he was the Democratic nominee for township clerk, his 
opponent being one of the strongest men in the town, notwithstanding which 
fact he reduced the usual Republican majority of five hundred to two hundred 
and sixty-one. Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of Pythias and 
Modern Woodmen of America. June 16, 1897, Mr. Cutler married Miss Maude Emmet, 
who was born in Wilmington, this county, and is a daughter of George Emmet, a 
pioneer of this place.

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Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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