History of Warren, (Worcester County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Nathan Cutler, governor of Maine, was born in Western, afterward Warren, Mass., May 29, 1775; son of Joseph and Mary (Reed), grandson of David and Dorcas (Reed), great-grandson of David and Mary (Tidd), great-great-grandson of Thomas and Sarah (Stone), great great great grandson of James and Lydia (Moore) Knight Cutler, and great great great great great grandson of James and Anna Cutler. This James Cutler was born in England in 1606 and settled in Watertown, Mass., as early as 1634. Nathan was graduated at Dartmouth college in 1798. He then studied law with Judge Chipman of Vermont, was admitted to the bar in 1801 and practised his profession in Western until 1803, when he removed to Farmington. Maine. He was a member of the legislature of Massachusetts before the separation of Maine, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1819 and 1820, and declined the appointment of judge of the court of common pleas in 1812. He was elected a member of the Maine senate and in 1829, by virtue of his office as president of that body, was governor of Maine from the date of the death of Gov. Enoch Lincoln, Oct. 8, 1829, to the accession of Governor Hutton in 1830. He was a presidential elector in 1833. He was married in 1804 to Hannah, daughter of Isaac Moore of Warren, Mass. He died in Farmington, Maine, June 8, 1861.

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

Eunice Powers Cutter, reformer, was born in Warren, Mass., Oct. 16, 1819. She received a good education and was preceptress of the Quobaog seminary in her native town. She was married to Dr. Calvin Cutter and travelled throughout New England lecturing to women on the laws of health, 1848-56. In 1856, she and her husband removed to Kansas in the interest of the Emigrant aid society and as friends of the free-state party. She furnished to John Brown the cartridges used in the Osawatomie fight and was the custodian and messenger of the first accounts of Kansas affairs forwarded to Chicago, Ill. After the settlement of the Kansas trouble they returned to Warren, where she assisted her husband in preparing his textbooks on anatomy and physiology. She revised the works in 1871 and wrote a history of Warren and two histories of Worcester county after 1880. She died in Warren, Mass., May 10, 1893.

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

John Foster, clergyman, was born in Western (now Warren), Mass., April 19, 1763; son of Nathan and Betty (Lansford) Foster; and grandson of Nathan and Hannah (Standish) Foster. He was graduated at Dartmouth, A.B., 1783, A.M., 1786. He was ordained the first pastor of the First Congregational society of Brighton, Nov. 1, 1784, his brother, the Rev. Joel Foster of New Salem, preaching the sermon. He resigned his pastorate, Oct. 31, 1827, and was succeeded by Daniel Austin. He was married in April, 1785, to Hannah, daughter of Grant Webster, and the author of "the Coquette; or History of Eliza Wharton," one of the earliest American novels. She died at Montreal, Canada, April 17, 1840, at the age of eighty-one years. Dr. Foster was one of the board of overseers of Harvard university and was connected with various literary, benevolent and religious societies. He received from Harvard the degree of A.M. in 1787 and that of D.D. in 1815. Twenty-two of his discourses were published. He delivered the annual discourse before the Roxbury charitable society, Sept. 16, 1799. A memorial window to the Rev. John Foster was placed in the new church in Brighton at its dedication in 1894. He died in Brighton, Mass., Sept. 16, 1829.

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