Carroll Cutler
Carroll Cutler
(1/31/1829-1/25/1894)
President, Western Reserve University, Fall/1871-6/23/1886
Education
Graduated from Yale College, 1854
Graduated from Yale Divinity School, 1858
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University Awards
Western Reserve College awarded Cutler the Honorary Master of Arts, 1862.
Western Reserve University named its original president’s residence Cutler Hall to honor Cutler’s past service as president, 1934.
Western Reserve University named one of the men’s north side residences Cutler House for his “great service as a teacher, his high ideals of scholarship and his service during difficult years in maintaining high educational standards and developing and solidifying the curriculum," 1964.
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Career
Principal, Bloomfield Academy, Bloomfield, New Jersey, 1854-1855
Tutor, Yale College, 1856-1858
Professor of Intellectual Philosophy and Rhetoric, Western Reserve College, 1860-1865
Handy Professor of Intellectual Philosophy, Western Reserve University, 1865-1889
Oviatt Professor of Rhetoric, Western Reserve College, 1865-1876
Professor of Christian Theology, Western Reserve College, 1876-1882
Professor of Theology and Church Government, Biddle University, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1889-1891
Professor of Theology and Church Government, Talledega College, Talledega, Alabama, 1891-1894
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University Numbers
1871/72 1885/86
Enrollment 132 198
Number of faculty 25 26
Total value of stocks
held by the
university $104,552.50 $635,280.89
Tuition $30 $30
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Milestones (non-university-related events are in italics)
1872 Instruction of women began at Western Reserve College.
1873 The Remington Arms Co. began mass producing Christopher Sholes' 1867 invention -- the
typewriter.
1879 Installation of Charles Brush's arc lights made Cleveland the first city "to be lighted
electrically."
1880 The Cleveland Telephone Co. began service.
1882 Western Reserve College moved from Hudson to Cleveland.
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Regional Population
1870 1890
Hudson 1,520
Cleveland 261,353
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Caution should be taken when comparing financial data across long periods of time. Accounting practices have changed substantially during CWRU's nearly 200-year history. In compiling these numbers, we have relied on the most authoritative contemporaneous sources available.
Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve University Archives, March 2007.
