sentences:  Born in Morristown, New Jersey, Cutler spent the early part of his life on a farm, attended common schools as a child and later Yale College.He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1849, commencing practice in Morristown.He was prosecutor of pleas for Morris County, New Jersey from 1856 to 1861, elected president of the board of education in 1870, served in the New Jersey Senate from 1871 to 1874 and was a delegate to the New Jersey constitutional convention in 1873.