Editing Alpheus Cutler (section)

==Early years==
[[File:Lois Lathrop Cutler.jpg|upright=0.7|thumbnail|left|Lois Lathrop Cutler, wife]]
Cutler was born in [[Plainfield, New Hampshire]], to Knight Cutler, a veteran of the [[American Revolution]],<ref>Fletcher, Rupert J. and Daisy Whiting, ''Alpheus Cutler and The Church of Jesus Christ''. Church of Jesus Christ, 1974, p. 9</ref> and Elizabeth Boyd. He married Lois Lathrop of [[Lebanon, New Hampshire]], on November 17, 1808.<ref>[http://josephsmithpapers.org/person?name=Alpheus+Cutler Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105115158/http://josephsmithpapers.org/person?name=Alpheus+Cutler |date=2012-01-05 }} of Alpheus Cutler, The Joseph Smith Papers (accessed December 28, 2011)</ref> Lathrop was a descendant of Rev. [[John Lothropp]] (1584&ndash;1653), and thus a distant cousin of Latter Day Saint [[prophet, seer, and revelator|prophet]] [[Joseph Smith]]. Cutler fought as a private in the [[War of 1812]], serving in Cpt. E. Smith's company of New York Militia from September to December 1812.<ref>[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sackettmckayhistory/LiesasLineage/MilitaryRecords/CuttlerAlpheus.htm Alpheus Cutler Military Records]. Erroneously named as "Alpheus Cutler's Civil War Record;" Cutler served in the War of 1812, not the U.S. Civil War.</ref> Although later Latter Day Saint sources would refer to Cutler as "Captain Alpheus Cutler"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.untraveledroad.com/Ch/Smith-Lucy/History/Appendix/Journal.htm|title=Journal of a Mission of Don C. Smith|website=library.untraveledroad.com|access-date=3 November 2017}}</ref> and say that he had fought at the battles of [[Battle of Chippewa|Chippewa Falls]] and [[Battle of Lundy's Lane|Lundy's Lane]],<ref>Fletcher, Rupert J. and Daisy Whiting, ''Alpheus Cutler and The Church of Jesus Christ''. Church of Jesus Christ, 1974, p. 10.</ref> his service record does not support either assertion.<ref>[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sackettmckayhistory/LiesasLineage/MilitaryRecords/CuttlerAlpheus.htm Alpheus Cutler Military Records].</ref>

Cutler was a [[stonemason]] by occupation.<ref name="Alpheus Cutler">{{cite web|url=http://www.saintswithouthalos.org/b/cutler_a.phtml|title=Alpheus Cutler|access-date=3 November 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021184909/http://www.saintswithouthalos.org/b/cutler_a.phtml|archive-date=21 October 2013}}</ref> He stood over six feet tall, and was described by one biographer as being "heavy set," "powerfully built," "critical" and "sarcastic," while generally expressing himself in "an extremely candid, sharp and brusque manner."<ref>"Jorgensen, Danny, Ph.D.: [https://books.google.com/books?id=oPJQHZOjej0C&dq=Alpheus+Cutler+Zenos+Gurley&pg=PA178 The Old Fox: Alpheus Cutler]. Quoted in Lannius, Roger D. ''Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History'', Univ. of Illinois press, p. 159.</ref> Some of Cutler's contemporaries would later refer to him as having a "natural parabolical, allegorical, symbolical, mysterious, secretive way of telling things."<ref name="The Old Fox: Alpheus Cutler">Jorgensen, Danny, Ph.D.: [https://books.google.com/books?id=oPJQHZOjej0C&dq=Alpheus+Cutler+Zenos+Gurley&pg=PA178 The Old Fox: Alpheus Cutler]. Quoted in Lannius, Roger D. ''Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History'', Univ. of Illinois press, p. 166.</ref>