Irving Samuel Cutter

Who is Irving Samuel Cutter?

Irving Samuel Cutter was a doctor, a teacher of medicine, and a medical journalist from Keene, New Hampshire. He was born Dec. 5, 1875 in New Hampshire, but was educated in the Midwest, graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1898. He received his medical degree from the same institution in 1910, where he then became an instructor of physiological chemistry. He went on to teach biochemistry, to work as director of laboratories, and to serve as dean of the college of medicine at the University of Nebraska.

After a decade in Nebraska, Cutter was appointed the dean of Northwestern University’s medical school and in 1941 was named dean emeritus. During his time in Evanston, Cutter contributed to several Chicago newspapers. In 1934, he was named the health editor of the Chicago Tribune, and he wrote the column “How to Keep Well.”