Ephraim Cutler was born in Edgartown, Massachusetts. He was the oldest son of Manasseh Cutler, and was named for his father's late brother. From age three he lived with his grandparents in Killingly, Connecticut. He married Leah Atwood April 8, 1787. Manasseh Cutler was a leader of the Ohio Company of Associates, a land company which bought a large tract in what is now southeast Ohio from the Congress of the Confederation. Ephraim Cutler acted as a sales agent for the company, and sold twenty subscriptions. These shareholders elected him to represent them at a meeting of the company in 1788, even though he was not yet of legal age. In the 1790s he ran a shop, and inherited his grandfather's farm, which he sold. Cutler decided Ohio would have a more agreeable climate for his wife's failing health, and decided to move.
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Ephraim Cutler was born in Edgartown, Massachusetts. He was the oldest son of Manasseh Cutler, and was named for his father's late brother. From age three he lived with his grandparents in Killingly, Connecticut. He married Leah Atwood April 8, 1787. Manasseh Cutler was a leader of the Ohio Company of Associates, a land company which bought a large tract in what is now southeast Ohio from the Congress of the Confederation. Ephraim Cutler acted as a sales agent for the company, and sold twenty subscriptions. These shareholders elected him to represent them at a meeting of the company in 1788, even though he was not yet of legal age. In the 1790s he ran a shop, and inherited his grandfather's farm, which he sold. Cutler decided Ohio would have a more agreeable climate for his wife's failing health, and decided to move.
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