Representative Lewis H. Cutler View All Years
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Lewis H. Cutler
Wright County
He removed from Ohio to Wisconsin, and from there to Freeport, Illinois, in 1855 coming to Wright county, Iowa. He located at Belmond and had much to do with the up building of that sprightly town. He built there the first frame house and operated a steam saw-mill as early as 1856. He was interested in all the pioneer enterprises of Wright county, and made a strong fight for the location of the county seat on the Iowa river, but fate decided that Liberty, on the west side, should be the first seat of justice. Doctor Cutler commenced practicing medicine and for many years was the faithful "family-doctor" for many of Wright county's earliest settlers. He rode his horse over from the Iowa to the Boone river settlement, when there was not a tree or a house to be seen between the two streams. He treated the sick at Liberty (now Goldfield) before the Civil War cloud appeared, and sent a son into that awful conflict. Dr. Cutler represented Wright county in the Ninth Iowa General Assembly, 1862.
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