Carroll Cutler

Carroll Cutler (born January 31, 1829 in Windham , New Hampshire, † January 25, 1894 in Talladega ) was the fourth president of the Western Reserve College , which is now known as Case Western Reserve University .

Life

Cutler attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts from 1847 to 1850 . In 1854 Cutler graduated from Yale College . While at Yale, he became a member of the elite secret society Skull and Bones in 1854 . In 1858 he graduated from Yale Divinity School . On August 10, 1858, he married Frances Elizabeth Gallagher. In the same year he traveled to Germany with his wife to study philosophy there for a year . He got to know philosophers like August Tholuck , Hermann Hupfeld and Hermann Ulrici .

In 1860 Cutler came to the Western Reserve College as a professor of philosophy and rhetoric and taught there for 29 years until 1889. After the resignation of President Henry L. Hitchcock , Cutler was President of the Western Reserve College from 1871 to 1886.

In 1882 Cutler moved the Western Reserve College from Hudson, Ohio , to its current location in the University District in east Cleveland under the new name of Adelbert College of Western Reserve University. New trustees were appointed on behalf of Amasa Stone after the move, including John Hay , Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield .

Cutler resigned from the presidency in 1886, under pressure and disagreement to end co-education . He resumed his abolitionist beliefs and taught in the remaining years at small all-black colleges in Charlotte, North Carolina and Talladega, Alabama. On January 25, 1894, he died of pneumonia in Talladega. His body was taken to Hudson, Ohio for burial .

Web links

Case Western Reserve University bio

Carroll Cutler in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

^ Membership of Yale's Skull and Bones Society. Retrieved June 17, 2019 .
^ Ralph R. Hamerla: An American Scientist on the Research Frontier: Edward Morley, Community, and Radical Ideas in Nineteenth-Century Science . Springer Science & Business Media, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4020-4088-7 ( google.com [accessed June 17, 2019]).
↑ CUTLER, CARROLL. May 11, 2018, accessed June 17, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Cutler, Carroll
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	College, Western Reserve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	fourth president of Western Reserve College
DATE OF BIRTH	January 31, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH	Windham , New Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH	January 25, 1894
Place of death	Talladega

[1] Membership of Yale's Skull and Bones Society. Retrieved June 17, 2019 .

[2] Ralph R. Hamerla: An American Scientist on the Research Frontier: Edward Morley, Community, and Radical Ideas in Nineteenth-Century Science . Springer Science & Business Media, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4020-4088-7 ( google.com [accessed June 17, 2019]).

[3] CUTLER, CARROLL. May 11, 2018, accessed June 17, 2019 .