His father, Ephram Cutler, married Sarah Parker, and she
was the mother of Hon. William P. Cutler. Mr. Daniel
Cutler was an anti-slavery man, and lived in Kansas in those
exciting times of border warfare. He was also a temperance
man, and a member of the Congregational church. He was
the first postmaster of Rantoul, Franklin county, was a farmer,
owned a thousand acres of land in one body. He lived and
died an honorable, Christian gentleman, on January 10th,
1887. Charles C. Cutler, an only child, survives him and oc-
cupies the homestead.
Mr. Daniel Cutler commenced life in the Northwestern
Territory, and followed up along the border of civilization
during a most eventful period of time, for the whole of his
eighty-eight years of life.
Abel Larkin, whose family has been noted, died February
17th, 1830, in Rutland, Ohio, aged sixty-five years, five
months, nineteen days.
Susannah Larkin (Bridges) died August 14th, 1860, aged
eighty-nine years, four months, twenty-six days. She passed
away from her own homestead in Rutland, a woman honored.
Nehemiah Bicknell was the son of Japhet Bicknell and wife,
Amy Bicknell (nee Burlingame) was born June 26th, 1796,
at East Greenwich, Rhode Island. His parents moved to
New York state in 1798, where he lived until nineteen years
of age, and his father and brother having died, Nehemiah,
with his widowed mother, came with a company under the
leadership of Rev. Samuel Porter, to Athens, Ohio, in
October, 1815. They traveled with teams and covered wagons, and
were forty days on the way, always stopping over Sunday.
His mother died in February, 1816, and lies buried in the
old cemetery at Athens, leaving him and his younger sister,
Zimrode, alone among strangers in a new country. God took
care of them and they soon found good friends.
