Cutter, Edward Ahern

Male 1870 - 1933  (63 years)


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  • Name Cutter, Edward Ahern 
    Birth 1870  New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Census 1881  Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Census 1 Jun 1900  Fresno (Ward 3), Fresno, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Age: 26y 
    Address:
    142 J Street 
    Occupation 1 Jun 1900  Fresno (Ward 3), Fresno, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Druggist 
    Census 22 Apr 1910  1910 US Census, Berkeley, Alameda, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Age: 39y 
    Address:
    1524 Church St 
    Occupation 22 Apr 1910  1910 US Census, Berkeley, Alameda, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Chemist 
    • General nature of industry, business or establishment: Drug House
      Whether employer, employee, or working on own account: Wage earner
    Census 9 Jan 1920  Berkeley, Alameda, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Age: 49y 
    Address:
    1321 Spruce St 
    Occupation 9 Jan 1920  Berkeley, Alameda, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Owner 
    • Industry, business or establishment: Medical Mfg. Co.
      Employer, salary or wage worker, or working on own account: Employer
    Census 2 Apr 1930  Berkeley, Alameda, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Age: 59y 
    Address:
    1320 Spruce St. 
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    Occupation 2 Apr 1930  Berkeley, Alameda, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Manufacturer 
    • Industry: Commercial Laboratory
      Class of worker: Employer
    Death 14 May 1933  Alameda, Alameda Co., California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age: 62y 
    • Ancestry.com, California Death Index. Also corroborated by Cutter Labs history (interview with EA Cutter Jr., p 6)
    Notes 
    • Founded Cutter Laboratories, Fresno CA -- later moved to Berkeley. Pharmaceutical company carried on by his son, Robert Kennedy Cutter

      From, The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis by Paul A Offit, Yale University Press, Sep 1, 2007.
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      P. 72:
      Cutter Laboratories was founded by Edward Ahern Cutter. The son and grandson of physicians and community leaders, EA Cutter was born and raised in Sutton Quebec, a small village south of Montreal. When he was eighteen years old EA moved to Traver California, in Joaquin Valley, to become an apprentice pharmacist. In the late 1800's Traver was a down alive with commerce and energy, but when the rail line that would later become the Santa Fe Railroad was built on the east side of the valley, Traver deteriorated badly. So, EA Moved to San Jacinto, California, where he bought a small drugstore in the center of town. At the back of the store, in a room approximately eight feet by eight feet, he set up a laboratory. The laboratory served local doctors by performing tests on blood and urine.

      In 1897, at age twenty-seven, EA Cutter moved from San Jacinto to Fresno, California, married and bought another drugstore - the first in town to have an ice cream parlor. Again EA set up a diagnostic laboratory in the back and called it Cutter Analytic Laboratory. ....
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      In 1903 Cutter Analytic Laboratory moved from Fresno to Berkeley and became Cutter Laboratories. one of the first pharmaceutical companies in the United States, Cutter's flagship product was black leg vaccine.

      Cutter Labs faced several challenges, the most newsworthy incident involved tainted polio vaccine that was recalled, but not until over a hundred thousand doses had been administered. The exposure is blamed for 56 polio cases and 5 deaths. Cutter Labs was not found guilty of negligence but was successfully sued for breach of implied warranty.
      As with any incident of this magnitude, there were many factors involved. The Cutter family took this issue quite personally and successfully changed their procedures and processes, providing quality pharmaceutical products for many years. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories
      Cutter Labs was sold to Bayer in 1974.
    Person ID I790  Bratt Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Jul 2016 

    Father Cutter, Dr. Frederic Augustus,   b. 24 Feb 1843, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 May 1909, Berkeley, Alameda, California Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Mother Ahern, Elizabeth T,   b. 10 Mar 1840, Limerick Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Dec 1921, Sutton, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Marriage Sutton, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F89  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Kennedy, Margaret,   b. 5 Oct 1875, California Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Aug 1957 (Age 81 years) 
    Marriage 21 Apr 1897  Fresno, Fresno, California Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Cutter, Robert Kennedy,   b. 23 May 1898, Fresno, Fresno, California Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Aug 1973, Alta Bates Medical Center, Berkeley, CA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    +2. Cutter, Edward Ahern,   b. 1902, California Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Aug 1975, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
    +3. Cutter, Frederic Amaziah,   b. 27 Mar 1904, California Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Feb 1967, Alameda Co., California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)
    Family ID F388  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Jul 2016 

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    Link to Google MapsCensus - Age: 49y,Address:
    1321 Spruce St - 9 Jan 1920 - Berkeley, Alameda, California
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    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Owner - 9 Jan 1920 - Berkeley, Alameda, California Link to Google Earth
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    1320 Spruce St. - 2 Apr 1930 - Berkeley, Alameda, California
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  • Sources 
    1. [S88] Canadian Census Quebec, 1881.

    2. [S147] Cutter, Edward Ahern, 1900, Census, USA, Ward 3, Fresno, Fresno, California, (SD 5, ED 7, sheet 2).

    3. [S265] Cutter, Edward Ahern, 1910, Census, USA, 1910 US Census, Berkeley, Alameda, California, (1910 US Census, Berkeley CA SD 3, ED 41, P 11).

    4. [S266] Cutter, Edward Ahern, 1920, Census, USA, Berkeley, Alameda, California, (1920 US Census, Berkeley, CA, SD 5, ED 193, sheet 11).

    5. [S267] Cutter, Edward Ahern, 1930, Census, USA, Berkeley, Alameda, California, (1930 US Census, Berkeley, CA, ED 1-320, SD 8, sheet 2).