Cutler, Morris D. c1810 – 1897

CUTLER, MCKAY, MACKAY, SMITH

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 11/25/2020 at 09:32:34

Source: Decorah Republican Feb. 4, 1897 P 4 C 2

Morris D. Cutler.
Don McKay, son of James D. McKay, of Frankville township, sends us Waukesha papers of last week, containing lengthy obituaries of the uncle he lived with in Waukesha—Mr. Morris D. Cutler. Mr. Cutler was a senior member of the Cutler family that for many years were very esteemed citizens of Frankville township. More than that he was the pioneer white man to settle in Waukesha county, and was often familiarly called “the father of Waukesha county.” When he settled there in 1834 the Pottawattamie Indians occupied the territory, but he always lived with them in peace. He accumulated a large property; and as he died childless, the property will go—unless otherwise disposed of by will,—to his brothers and sisters, who are John and Leonard Cutler, Jr., of Visalia, Cal., Jas. B. and David C., of Osage, this state, William, of Doland, S. D., and Mrs. J. D. McKay and Mrs. W. H. Smith, of Frankville, in this county. He died at the age of 86 years, 8 months, and his biographers say he was a man of marked peculiarities, but great gen-rosities.

Transcriber’s Note: Frankville Cemetery records show the sister’s name is spelled Mackay.