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Financier philanthropist Civic leader
He was born in New York City on June 24, 1852. Cutting was a descendant of Robert Livingston and of the Revolutionary Leonard Cutting, a graduate of Pembroke College, Cambridge (1747), who emigrated to America and held pastorates in Long Island, New Jersey, Maryland, and North Carolina.
He was graduated at Columbia College in 1871 and received a master's degree there in 1875.
After leaving college he received training in private banking in companies controlled by his family.
He thereafter made banking his business but became interested in many other activities also.
He became celebrated as an economist, a student of municipal and political problems, and an aggressive leader.
He was one of the earliest settlers in the society colony at Tuxedo Park, N. Y.
In 1897 he helped to found the Citizens Union, a good-government organization, and became its first chairman. It was unsuccessful in its first campaign in New York City, but in its second in 1901, largely through Cutting's efforts, Seth Low [q. v. ] was persuaded to become its candidate for mayor on a Republican-Fusion ticket and was elected. Cutting, it was said, could have had the nomination but refused it. At that time he was frequently spoken of as "the first citizen of New York. " For many years Cutting was president of Cooper Union, taking an active part in its enterprises. He was one of the founders, for some time president, and chairman of the board of directors until his death, of the City & Suburban Homes Company which built many houses and blocks of model tenements in New York for persons of small means, greatly raising their standards of living. From 1893 to 1913 he was president of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. During his incumbency there and at Cooper Union, and partly as the result of his initiative, the Cooper Union Labor Bureau, Hartley House Social Settlement, Milbank Memorial Baths, Sea Breeze Hospital, Caroline Rest House, Caroline Country Club, and the Home Hospital were established. From 1899 until his death he was president of the New York Trade School, which gave thousands of young men manual and business training. Among other institutions which he helped to found or headed were Greenwich House and the New York Bureau of Municipal Research (later the Institute of Public Administration). For a number of years he was president and later chairman of the board of the Metropolitan Opera & Real Estate Company. He was a member of the Committee of One Thousand to enforce prohibition but never took a leading part in the crusade. He was active in the affairs of the American Society for the Control of Cancer and in 1927 gave $250, 000 for the furtherance of its work. He also contributed liberally to the Young Men's Christian Association and other causes. It was said that whenever Martha Berry, who created a school for mountain boys and girls in northern Georgia, found herself in desperate need of money for operating expenses, she could always get a check for a thousand dollars from Cutting. He did no little public speaking, one of his notable addresses being "Christianity in Social Life. "
Several other published pamphlets and addresses testify to the activity of his mind in civic, economic, and public welfare fields, notably a report of 1921 advocating national and state legislation for the settlement of labor disputes. He died of nephritis in his eighty-third year. At the time of his death he was president and director of the Colonial Radio Corporation, a trustee of the Manhattan Storage & Warehouse Company, director of All-America Cables, of the American Exchange & Securities Corporation, of the Church Properties Fire Insurance Corporation, of the International Telephone & Telegraph Company, the Mexican Telegraph Company, and other organizations.
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Cutting was for fifty years a vestryman in St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, and a part of the time senior warden. He was the author of The Church and Society (1912), in which he advocated a closer cooperation (though not union) between church and government, in order to make vice and political corruption unprofitable.
Though born into a sturdily Democratic family, he soon cast aside party affiliations and in New York City politics fought the Republican bosses and Tammany Hall with equal fervor.
In 1883 he was married to Helen Suydam of New York, who died in 1919, survived by five children: Fulton, Charles Suydam, Helen, Elizabeth, and Ruth.
