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Cutler Hall is named in honor of Manasseh Cutler, a man of many talents. He attended school at Yale University, operated a store, practiced law and medicine, and was a minister and a scientist-statesman. He was one of the founders of Ohio University.
Cutler Hall, also called Manassah Cutler Hall after one of Ohio University’s founders, is located on the Ohio University campus green in Athens. The first college founded in the state, Ohio University reflected the educational values established in the Northwest Territory.
Manasseh Cutler (May 13, 1742 – July 28, 1823) was an American Congregational clergyman involved in the American Revolutionary War. He was influential in the passage of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and wrote the section prohibiting slavery in the Northwest Territory .
Manasseh Cutler Hall (also referred to simply as Cutler Hall, or Cutler) on the College Green of Ohio University is the oldest academic building at Ohio University and the oldest in the original Northwest Territory of the United States.
The Cutler Hall cupola stands proudly at the center of the shield calling forth the memory of Manasseh Cutler, a man whose vision, pioneering spirit and leadership founded this great institution. The shield is flanked by the numerals for 1804, the year Ohio University was established.
Manasseh Cutler Hall is the oldest building erected for higher education west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River. In August 1818, the east end of the building was struck by lightning, and it was saved from burning to the ground only by torrential rains.
Manasseh Cutler (born May 13, 1742, Killingly, Connecticut [U.S.]—died July 28, 1823, Ipswich Hamlet, Massachusetts) was a Congregational minister who, as a leader of the Ohio Company of Associates, was instrumental in settling what is now Ohio.
