Dr. Alexis H. Cruttenden was born in OTSEGO county, NY, February 22, 1822. His 
father, Lyman, was a native of Kinderhook, NY, born in 1793, son of Jeremiah 
Cruttenden, born in New Haven in 1767, who with his family in 1796 removed to 
Otsego county, as one of the first settlers of the old town of Butternuts, now 
known as Morris, where the subject of this notice was born. Lyman Cruttenden 
through life was identified as a farmer and mechanic, as was his father before 
him. He married Harriet Noble, daughter of Elnathan and Joannah (Bostic) Noble, 
a like pioneer from Connecticut. The family trace their descent through eight 
generations to Goodman (so called) Abram Cruttenden, the emigrant father of the 
Cruttenden family in this country, being one of the colonists (twenty-five in 
number as heads of families) who signed the famous Guilford Covenant, under the 
leadership of Rev. Henry Whitfield, from the town of Cranbrook, County of Kent, 
England, who purchased the site and settled the old town of Guilford, CT, in 
1639. Dr. A. H. Cruttenden graduated from the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, New York City, in 1852, and practiced in Brooklyn for four years. In 
1856 he came to Bath (Steuben County, NY-AC) and established his practice of 
medicine, covering a period of forty years in Steuben county. He early took rank 
as a surgeon, made the first ovariotomy in the founty, and serving as pension 
examining surgeon twenty-eight years. In 1853 he married Julia M. Stephenson, by 
whom he had four children, two of whom are living; Frank E., a practicing 
physician in Des Moines, Iowa and Mrs. Mary A. Percy of New York city. Mr. 
Cruttenden is a lover of the beautiful in nature and art, spends a large share 
of leisure time in the culture of fruit and flowers at his home residence and is 
one of the progressive men of his county, identified in advancing its best 
interests and in the leading events of the day.

From "Landmarks of Steuben County" by Hon. Harlo Hakes 1896
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