456Jonas Cutter, for the past thirty years proprietor of the Cutter House in Jaffrey, formerly kept by his father, the late Ethan Cutter, ws born in this town, December 9, 1833. He is representative of a well-known Jaffrey family which has been identified with the hotel business here for three generations, and members of which have been prominent in local public affairs. John Cutter, Mr. Cutter's grandfather, a native of Woburn, Massachusetts, settled in Jaffrey in 1789 or about that time, and followed the trade of a tanner and currier. He married Abigail Demary, who was of French ancestry, and they had the following children: John, Jonas, Benjamin, Ethan, Ermina, Cyrus, Esther, Nathaniel, Hepsy, Emeline, Paulina, and Abigail.
Jonas Cutter has been in the hotel business since completing his education, and in 1867 he became proprietor of the noted summer hostelry that had long been carried on by his father. The house is situated on elevated ground at the foot of Mount Monadnock, a magnificent view of which is to be obtained from the veranda, and for invigorating air and wild, picturesque scenery this locality is unsurpassed. |