JAMES CUTHBERT, supervisor and farmer of section 4, White Lake township , Oakland county, Michigan , is a well-to-do and popular citizen of that community. Ile has always been prominent in all affairs, whether social or political , and has been one of the first to be approached when some local change or improvement was being considered .

Mr. Cuthbert's parents, Joseph and Jane (Bell) Cuthbert, were both born in Lincolnshire, England, of farmer stock, and after their marriage in 1852 came directly to America. They did not remain in the east, but pushed on to Michigan and settled in White Lake township. After work ing out for a short time Mr. Cuthbert bought eighty-five acres of land and built a house thereon. He later bought two additional pieces of ground, one of nineteen acres in the same section and another of two hundred acres in section 33, Springfield township. They lived on this farm until the death of Mrs. Cuthbert, April 21 , 1891 , when Mr. Cuthbert moved to Pontiac and died there August 8, 1906. They were the parents of three children : James, the subject of the sketch ; Annie, the wife of Will T. Matthews, of Pontiac; and William , who died when about four years old.

James Cuthbert lived on his father's farm until his marriage Feb ruary 18, 1879, to Rebecca Ogden. For the next ten years he lived in Springfield township, but on the death of his mother in 1891 he moved back to the old homestead and has been there ever since. Miss Ogden was the daughter of Lewis and Phoebe (Harding ) Ogden, of Dutch descent on the father's side and of English on the mother's. They came from New Jersey into White Lake township in 1852, when Rebecca Ogden was only two years old. They had three other children besides Rebecca, all living: Sarah E. the wife of Joseph B. Roe, of Independence township, Emily, the wife of James Teeples, of White Lake township; and Mary A., the wife of Gilman C. Nelson, of California. Mr. and Mrs. Cuthbert have had three children, Friend Joseph, who died in infancy, Inez May, a graduate of the Holly High school and of the county normal, and now a senior student at the Michigan Conservatory of Music, Detroit; and Ida Tane, a graduate of the Oakland County Normal, and living at home while teaching school in White Lake.

Mr. Cuthbert is a member of A. F. and A. M., Davisburg Austin Lodge, No. 48, and the family belong to the O. E. S. No. 296, Austin Chapter at Davisburg. A Democrat in politics , he has been supervisor of his township for thirteen years. He owns ninety-eight acres in White Lake and forty acres of land in Springfield township, and at one time made a specialty of Shropshire sheep and shorthorned registered stock.