John E. Cutler, who was born in Sheffield on 9 September 1828, was the son of Hiram Cutler, and his wife, Sarah. He apparently did not join the family firm, but began trading alone. In 1856, he was a ‘merchant and manufacturer’, The Laurels, Glossop Road. In the Census (1871), he described himself as an American merchant in cutlery, steel, and tools. In 1852, he had married Rosa Elizabeth (d. 1885), the second daughter of William Butcher. By the 1880s, Cutler had wider in....