This is a transcription of the Abbie J. McCutcheon biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 93.
Abbie J. McCutcheon
THE village of Loudon, near Concord, is the birth-place of Miss McCutcheon, her parents being Moses and Mary (Stevens) McCutcheon, the former dying in 1882, while the latter survives at theage of seventy-seven. She was educated at the “Home School” in Hanover, Penacook academy, New London academy, of which her uncle, General Luther McCutcheon, was for many years a trustee, and Abbot academy, Andover, Mass., from which she graduated with high honors in 1882. After a year of travel came a year of teaching in the Gilmanton academy, of which her brother was preceptor, followed by three years as teacher and preceptress at Kimball Union academy. In 1886 she went to New York and to Florida, where she remained until 1891, when with her aged mother and brother she removed to Charlestown, where she still resides, occupying a substantial home in Dexter Row, which they purchased at the time. Miss McCutcheon is regarded as one of the brightest and most energetic young women of the Bunker Hill city. The Norumbega club, an organization of phenomenal growth and high standing in the Federation, was formed largely through her efforts. She is a charter member and its president, being one of the youngest to hold so prominent a position in club circles. She is an active member of New Hampshire’s Daughters, corresponding secretary of the Abbot Academy club, and interested in the All Around club of Charlestown, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, her paternal great grandfather, Frederick McCutcheon, being one ofthe nineteen with Stark at Bennington. The family home in Dexter Row is a center for all interests affecting the social and literary welfare of the women of the community. Miss McCutcheon is aided greatly in hospitality by her mother, who still interests herself in all the questions of the day. Mr. McCutcheon, who is treasurer of the highly exclusive Charlestown club, aids his sister in her work, and finely supplements the genuine hospitality of this transplanted New Hampshire family.