{{Short description|American architect and mayor (1848–1927)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2011}} {{Infobox Officeholder |name = James Goold Cutler |image = JamesGCutler.png |order = 48th |office = Mayor of Rochester, New York |term_start = January 1, 1904 |term_end = December 31, 1907 |predecessor = Adolph J. Rodenbeck |successor = Hiram H. Edgerton |birth_date = {{birth date|1848|04|24}} |birth_place = Albany, New York, US |death_date = {{Death date and age|1927|4|21|1848|4|24|mf=yes}} |death_place = Rochester, New York, US |resting_place = Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester |party = Republican |spouse = {{Marriage|Anna Catherine Abbey|September 27, 1871}} |profession = Architect |signature = Signature of James Goold Cutler (1848–1927).png }}
'''James Goold Cutler''' (April 24, 1848 – April 21, 1927) was a prominent Rochester, New York, architect and businessman, and served as the 48th mayor of Rochester from 1904 to 1907.
== Biography ==
=== Early life and career === Cutler was born in 1848 in Albany, New York, to John N. Cutler and Mary E. (Goold) Cutler.<ref name=":0">{{Citation | last = Devoy | first = John | title = A History of the City of Rochester from the Earliest Times | url = http://mcnygenealogy.com/bios/biographies003.htm | access-date = 2010-01-04 | year = 1895 | publisher=Post Express Printing Co. | location = Rochester, New York | oclc = 5426522 | page = 159}}</ref> On September 27, 1871, he married Anna Catherine Abbey, and in 1872 he and his brother J. W. Cutler moved with their families to the Rochester, New York area.<ref>{{Citation | last = Peck | first = William F. | title = Landmarks of Monroe County, New York Containing an Historical Sketch of Monroe County and the City of Rochester | url = http://mcnygenealogy.com/bios/biographies011.htm | access-date = 2010-01-04 | volume = III | year = 1895 | publisher=Boston History Co. | location = Boston | oclc = 5921596 | page = 147}}</ref> Here he was a practicing architect from 1872 to 1884 in partnership with Andrew Jackson Warner (1833–1910) from 1875 to 1877.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.rochester.lib.ny.us/rochimag/architecture/Architects/Warner/Bio.htm | title = The Architectural Heritage of the Warners in Rochester, NY | work = Rochester's Own: Local Architects of the Past | publisher = Monroe County (NY) Library System | location = Rochester, New York | access-date = 2009-01-04 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170632/http://www.rochester.lib.ny.us/rochimag/architecture/Architects/Warner/Bio.htm | archive-date = March 3, 2016 | url-status = dead }}</ref> He was the inventor of the Cutler mail chute, a mail delivery system for tall buildings, and was associated with his brother, J. W. Cutler, in management of the Cutler Manufacturing company, controlling and operating the Cutler mail chute patents.<ref name=":0" />
[[File:Memorial Art Gallery Cutler Union east side.JPG|thumb|none|The University of Rochester's Cutler Union as viewed from its southeast side. The Union was made possible by a bequest from the Cutlers.]]
=== Political career === Cutler was a Republican presidential elector for New York State in 1896. In 1904, he was recruited by Republican boss George Aldridge to run for mayor against former mayor George E. Warner, a Democrat and comptroller James Johnston, a Republican running for the new Citizen's Party. Cutler narrowly won the election. As mayor, he oversaw major expansions of all municipal services. In his first four months, nearly one million dollars were spent on new fire fighting equipment, police precincts, hospitals, garbage collection facilities, and other improvements. Later in his term, he focused his attention on expanding the city's electric grid and street lights. He was reelected in 1905, but lost the Republican nomination to Hiram Edgerton in 1907.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=McKelvey |first=Blake |date=January 1969 |title=His Honor, the Mayor of Rochester: 1900-1928 |url=https://www.libraryweb.org/~rochhist/v31_1969/v31i1.pdf |journal=Rochester History |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=7–14}}</ref>
=== Death === Cutler died on April 21, 1927, in Rochester and was eulogized by his many friends, including former U.S. president William Howard Taft, former governor of New York Charles Evans Hughes and former presidential candidate John W. Davis.{{cn|date=August 2022}}
== References == {{reflist|30em}}
== External links == {{Commons category}} *{{Find a Grave|6185}} *[http://www.libraryweb.org/rochimag/architecture/LostRochester/Elwood/Elwood.htm The Elwood Memorial Building] *[http://www.libraryweb.org/rochimag/architecture/LostRochester/Kimball/Kimball.htm William S. Kimball Tobacco Factory] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090116074003/http://www.landmarksociety.org/tours/index.html?tourID=10018 Alexander Lindsay Residence] *[http://www.booktown.com/stcroixprints/plan.php?id=3889 Residence of H. C. Brewster] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708083650/http://www.booktown.com/stcroixprints/plan.php?id=3889 |date=July 8, 2011 }} *[http://www.booktown.com/stcroixprints/plan.php?id=3968 Residence of I. A. Baum, Esq] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708083946/http://www.booktown.com/stcroixprints/plan.php?id=3968 |date=July 8, 2011 }}
{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | title=Mayor of Rochester, NY | before=Adolph J. Rodenbeck | after=Hiram H. Edgerton | years=1904–1907}} {{s-end}}
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