History of Concord, (Essex County) Vermont United States of America

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Hiram Adolphus Cutting, scientist, was born at Concord, Vt., Dec. 23, 1832; son of Stephen C. and Eliza (Darling) Cutting. His paternal grandfather was one of the first settlers of Concord, Vt., and on his mother's side he descended from Gen. James Reed of the Revolutionary army, and in the twenty-third degree, from Henry II., King of England. He taught school, artended St. Johnsbury academy, engaged in trade, afterward studied medicine and had extensive practice, but devoted his attention chiefly to scientific subjects. He was curator of the Vermont state natural history collections in 1870, and the same year was appointed state geologist. He was secretary of the board of agriculture, 1880-86, chairman of the fish commission, 1880-85, special examining surgeon for the U.S. pension office, 1873-88; vice-president of the United States forestry congress, and forest commissioner for Vermont; lecturer on science at Norwich university; meteorological observer for the United States signal service, and Vermont statistical agent for the department of agriculture. He rounded in Lunenburg, the Cutting library of seventeen thousand volumes and the Cutting museum of natural history of twenty-eight thousand specimens. He was a member of seventy-nine scientific and medical societies in America and Europe. He received from Norwich university the honorary degrees of A.M. in 1868, and Ph.D. in 1869, and from Dartmouth that of M.D. in 1870. He made a large collection of birds and minerals for the state of Vermont, published three reports on agriculture, three on fisheries, eight on natural history, and three volumes of lectures upon scientific subjects. He died in Lunenburg, Vt., April 18, 1892.

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

History of Concord, (Essex County) Vermont

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