History of Westport, (Essex County) New York United States of America

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Biographies:

John Tyler Cutting, representative, was born in Westport, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1844; son of Sewell and Mary Cutting; grandson of Jonas Cutting, and a descendant of Col. Jonas Cutting. In 1855 he removed to Wisconsin, and shortly afterward to Illinois, acquiring his education in the latter state. In 1861 he enlisted in Taylor's Chicago battery and served until 1862, when he was discharged for disability. He re-enlisted, Jan. 4, 1864, and served until the close of the war. In 1877 he removed to California and engaged in the wholesale fruit and commission business. He was for nine years connected with the National guard of California, holding the commissions of lieutenant, major, colonel, and brigadier-general. He was a Republican representative from California in the 52d congress, 1891-98.

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

John Eugene Osborne, governor of Wyoming, was born in Westport, Essex county, N.Y., June 9, 1860; son of John C. and Mary E. Osborne. His grandparents were English. He worked on a farm summers, attended the district and high school winters, was apprenticed to a druggist in Burlington, Vt., in 1876, and was graduated from the medical department of the University of Vermont in 1880, after having attended the winter course of lectures, 1877-80. In 1881 he removed to Rawlins, Wyo., where he established a wholesale and retail drug store. He was appointed assistant surgeon of the Union Pacific railway company. He engaged extensively in live-stock raising in 1884, and became the largest individual sheep owner in Carbon county. He was a Democratic representative in the territorial legislature in 1883; chairman of the territorial penitentiary building commission, and mayor of Rawlins, 1888; an alternate to the Democratic national convention in 1892; was governor of Wyoming, 1892-94, having been elected, Nov. 8, 1892, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Gov. F. E. Warren, and declined renomination in 1894. He was a member of the bimetallic Democratic national committee for the state of Wyoming in 1895; was chairman of the state delegation at the Democratic national convention, Chicago, 1896, and was the Democratic representative-at-large from Wyoming in the 55th congress, 1897-99. He was vice-chairman of the Democratic national congressional committee in 1898 and the unsuccessful Democratic and Free Silver candidate for U.S. senator before the Wyoming legislature of 1899.

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