History of Becket, (Berkshire County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Hannah Maria Tracy (Conant) Cutler Biographical Sketch

Hannah Maria Tracy (Conant) Cutler, reformer, was born in Becket, Mass., Dec. 25, 1815; daughter of John and Orpha (Johnson) Conant. She was married in 1834 to the Rev. J.M. Tracy. After his death in 1843 she prepared herself as a teacher and was matron of the Columbus, Ohio, deaf and dumb asylum, 1848-49. In 1851 she visited England as a newspaper correspondent at the London World's fair and as a delegate from the United States to the peace congress. She was married to Samuel Cutler in 1852 and upon removing to Illinois became an advocate of woman's rights. In the civil war she was president of the Western Union aid commission. She was graduated at the Homoeopathic college, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1869, and practised medicine in Cobden, Ill. She accompanied her son, J. M. Tracy, an artist, to France and was there during the years 1873-75. She wrote: Woman as she Was, Is, and Should Be (1846); Phillipia, or a Woman's Question (1886); and The Fortunes of Michael Doylc (1886). She died in Ocean Springs, Miss., in February, 1896.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor