Leman Woodward Cutler was born in Watertown, Connecticut, on December 12, 1807, the son of Younglove Cutler and Aurora Woodward. After graduating from Yale College in 1829, he became a farmer and public servant. He was a member of the Connecticut Senate and the Connecticut House of Representatives, a town clerk and treasurer of Watertown, a county commissioner, a probate judge, and president of the Watertown Library Association. From 1861-1865, he was the Connecticut state comptroller. Among his other duties was the oversight of bounty payments to families of soldiers who served in Connecticut regiments of the Union Army. Leman W. Cutler married Mary Elizabeth Holcomb on October 31, 1831; he died on February 9, 1901.
From the guide to the Connecticut Comptroller records, 1862-1863, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)
