William Bayard Cutting
Cutting ArboretumBorn: January 12, 1850
Died: March 1, 1912
Married: Olivia Peyton Murray
Children: W. Bayard Cutting, Jr., Justine Bayard Cutting, Bronson Murray Cutting, Olivia Murray Cutting
William Bayard Cutting was an attorney, financier, real estate developer, sugar beet refiner and philanthropist. Cutting and his brother Fulton started the sugar beet industry in the United States in 1888. He was a builder of railroads, operated the ferries of New York City, and developed part of the south Brooklyn waterfront, Red Hook.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting had a camp on Deer Island in 1905, when the New York Times reported that Count Erwin Wurmbrand of Newport and W. Bayard Cutting, Jr. (who was a private patient of Dr. E. L. Trudeau), were also in camp. R. Fulton Cutting-- a brother of Bayard Cutting, Sr.--was one of the original incorporators of Trudeau's Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium. See A Rare Romance in Medicine for a full account of the "Cutting incident."
