"A Pioneer History of Becker County Minnesota" by Alvin H. Wilcox (1907), Chapter XXI, History of Detroit Township, pages 331-332. Lois Lathrop Cutler Mrs. Lois Cutler was born at Lebanon, Grafton County, New Hamshire, on the 24th day of September, 1788, and was married to Alpheus Cutler in 1808. Her maiden name was Lathrop. Mrs. Cutler came into Becker County with her son-in-law, A. [Almon] W. Sherman in the year 1868, it being then a wilderness. There were no houses north of Rush Lake a distance of forty miles from where they settled. They were visited by the Northern Pacific Railroad exploring party in the summer of 1869. In this party were Gov. [J. Gregory] Smith, Senator [William] Windom and others, and much surprised they were to meet on the frontier, the sister of a very rich and noted banker of Wasington City, as Mrs. Cutler assured them she was the sister of J. H. Lathrop of that city. It was her of whom Charles Carleton Coffin, who was with this expedition wrote, as the woman "who had kept on the tide of emigration from New York to Nebraska, and thence north to this place, and whose locks once whitened with age; had under the rejuvenating influence of the Northwest become black again." She was a member of the church of Latter Day Saints, and a very exemplary one for forty-six years. She firmly believed that at one time a daughter of hers was miraculously healed by the imposition of hands by the ordained elders of the church. Mrs. Cutler died at the home of her grandson C. [Cutler] A. Sherman, at Oak Lake, on the 23rd of March, 1878. ********************* Lois Cutler is buried in Felker Cemetery, which is located in the SE SE Section 17, Audubon Township, Becker County, Minnesota. (Reference: "Becker County Cemeteries - Volume I" compiled by Care Gibbons, Mel Trieglaff and Nora Willprecht. Submittd by Dick Campbell