Biographical Sketch of Levi CUTLER (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila- delphia, PA, 1893, page 558. "LEVI CUTLER, an enterprising and successful business man of Paoli, and who served in the army of the Potomac from the Wilderness fights to Appo- mattox courthouse, is a son of William and Mary (Shenaman) Cutler, and was born in Warwick township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, June 14, 1842. He received his education principally in the public schools of Norristown, this State, but his father's death caused him to leave school at an early age to do for himself. He has, however, largely supplemented his early education by reading and self study. After serving in the Federal army and being engaged in various lines of business until 1874, he then em- barked in butchering at Strafford, which he followed up to 1883, when he conducted a grocery store at what is now Chester Valley, where he remained until 1891. On April 1st of that year he came to Paoli, and established his present general mercantile store. He carries a full and carefully selected stock of dry goods, staple and fancy groceries, hardware and everything to be found in a first-class general mercantile establishment outside of the larger towns of the county. Mr. Cutler has prospered in his business, commands a large trade, and enjoys the respect and confi- dence of his patrons. He is a republican in politics, an attendant of the Baptist church, and a member of Col. Owen Jones Post, No. 591, Grand Army of the Republic, of Bryn Mawr. "On August 21, 1862, he enlisted in Co. C, 138th Pennsylvania infantry, and was in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania courthouse, Petersburg, and in the skirmishing that led to Lee's surrender at Appo- mattox courthouse, at which he was present. He was slightly wounded in one of the Wilderness battles, and was honorably discharged in June, 1865, at Harrisburg, this State. "In 1869, Mr. Cutler married Mary P. Dannaker, who died in April, 1881, and left two children: Girdon D. and Mollie B. On December 6, 1882, Mr. Cutler wedded Matilda B., daughter of Joseph Peterman, of Philadelphia. "Levi Cutler is of German lineage. His grandfather, James Cutler, died at an advanced age. He was a farmer, a democrat, and a member of St. Mary's Presbyterian church. He married Susan Cake, and their children were: Levi, James, George, Jane, Margaret, Rebecca, Caroline and William. "The youngest child, William Cutler (father), was born in Warwick town- ship, and died at Bridgeport, Montgomery county, in 1856, aged forty years. He was a farmer, and a member of St. Mary's Presbyterian church, like his father, but differed from him in political opinion, being an old- line whig. He married Mary, daughter of Benjamin Shenaman, who was of German descent and kept the old 'Stage tavern,' near Berwyn, on the old Lancaster pike, for many years, after which he followed farming. William and Mary Cutler were the parents of four sons and two daughters: James, Benjamin, Margaret, Susanna, Levi (subject), and William, a carpenter who married Jennie Smith and resides in Philadelphia. Of these children only the last two named are living."