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CUTLER, OTWAY, retired; the oldest resident settler of Fort Madison today; born in Morgan Co., Ind., May 21, 1824; when only 3 years of age, his parents moved to Illinois; came to Iowa when he was only 12 years of age, and arrived in Lee Co. about the middle of April, 1836; his father bought a claim, and Otway was brought up on a farm; in 1846, he engaged in mercantile business, and continued until 1857, when he gave his whole attention to his farming interests, and continued until May, 1878, when he gave up the active management of his farm to his son, and moved into the city. Mr. Cutler has been actively identified with the interests of Lee Co., and is a cautious, safe, successful business man; he owns the old homestead farm of 160 acres, another of 160 acres near here and a farm of 500 acres near Bloomfield, and two farms, comprising 640 acres, in Fremont Co., one and a half miles from Farragut Station. He was the Treasurer of the Fort Madison & Bloomfield R. R. He married Miss Mary Jane Rudisell, a native of Ohio, Jan. 8, 1843; they have four children — George and Thomas live on his farm in Fremont Co.; Arabella (now Mrs. George Smith) lives here; Otway, the youngest son, lives on the old homestead farm.