Lincoln Township
L. S. Cutler, one of the pioneers of Mitchell county, was a native of New York, born in Allegany county, Sept. 17, 1829, is a son of David and Lois (Hopkins) Cutler. When he was sixteen years of age is parents moved to Marshall Co., Ind., where he made his home until 1853, when he came to Iowa and took a claim in township 98, range 16, spending the summer in getting out timbers with which to build a saw mill, then returned to Indiana to spend the winter.
He returned to Iowa in the spring, attending the land sale, and purchased land in township 97, range 16. The same year he went to Minnesota and took a claim in Olmstead. He spent that winter in Frankville, Iowa, and in the spring returned Olmstead. Finding his claim contested, he compromised with the parties and started for Kansas and Nebraska; from there to Winneshiek, Iowa; thence to Tipton, Cedar county; from there to Pike's Peak, where he engaged in mining, when he came to Iowa and bought land in what is now know a Lincoln township, upon which he has erected a fine brick house, a large and commodious barn, with other improvements and which he now makes his home.
He was married in 1857 to Mary J. Champlin, of Indiana. They have one son – John A.
Transcribed by Gordon Felland, August 2004.