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Biographical History of Northern Michigan
B. F. Bowen & Co., - 1905

        [45-46]

        CALVIN CUTTLER

        Among the enterprising citizens of Antrim county who owe their
     success and advancement in life to their own industry andwell directed
     efforts, is CALVIN CUTTLER, of Forest Home township. He is a native of
     the dominion of Canada, where he was born in 1843 and is the son of
     Calvin Cuttler, a native of the same place, who was born in 1814. The
     subject devoted all the years of his youth to obtaining a fair know-
     ledge of the common school branches and upon attaining his majority
     was fairly well qualified to take up the battle of life on his own
     account. He followed the pursuits of farming in his native land until
     1880, when, feeling that in "the states” were to be found better op-
     portunities for a man of energy and thrift, he came to Antrim county
     and settled upon his present farmstead. Everything in this locality
     was then in its primitive condition and it was necessary to carry the
     most common household supplies a long distance. MR. CUTTLER states
     that he has paid as high as one and one-half dollars a pound for tea
     and twenty dollars per barrel for flour. Not withstanding the unfavor-
     able condition of things at that time he was not dismayed, but per-
     severed in his efforts, and the subsequent years have proved the wis-
     dom of his course. He added to his original tract from time to time as
     his financial condition permitted and is today the owner of one hun-
     dred and sixty-four acres of land, of which sixty-five are under
     cultivation. MR. CUTTLER'S wife is also interested in the farmstead
     in a financial way and receives her due share of its products. She
     retains control of the orchards, comprising sixteen acres of splendid
     fruit trees, and has also given special attention to the raising of
     potatoes, her average annual sales amounting to over two hundred
     bushels. In connection with farming, MR. CUTTLER has given consider-
     able attention to lumbering operations, in which he has achieved a
     distinct success. Much hard labor has been necessitated in order to
     develop the farm to its present high state of efficiency, but MR.
     CUTTLER and his wife are now reaping the fruits of their years of hard
     and consecutive toil and now their farm compares favorably with any in
     the township.
        In 1870 MR. CUTTLER was united in marriage to MISS MARGARET
     McCARTHY, the daughter of DANIEL and JOHANNA (BARROW) McCARTHY. MRS.
     CUTTLER's father was a native of London, England, born in 1824, while
     her mother was born in 1847 at Dublin, Ireland. JOHANNA McCARTHY was
     married at the age of fifteen and became the mother of seventeen
     children. To MR. and MRS. CUTTLER have been born the following
     children: CHARLES, JOHN, CATHERINE, CALVIN, DANIEL, BENJAMIN, FRANK,
     LIBBIE, MARGARET (deceased), JAMES (deceased), FLOYD (deceased), and
     two others who died in infancy. The son JOHN enlisted for service
     during the Spanish-American war in the Eleventh Michigan Volunteer
     Infantry and with that command served in the Philippine islands. He is
     now a captain on a boat on Torch Lake. The subject of this sketch is a
     man of mature judgment, has led a clean and honorable life and retains
     the warm regard of his acquaintances. He is up-to-date in his methods
     and does not believe in following in the old roads when more modern
     methods will complete the work quicker and easier. In the social
     circles of the township he and his family hold a high position and
     their individual qualities have won for them the esteem of the entire
     community.

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