ugene B. Cutts is a native of Pittston, Maine, where he lived until the fall of 1861, when he came to the Pacific Coast. From the spring of 1862 until 1891 Mr. Cutts lived in Carson, where he was employed in the United States mint, and in Reno, Nevada. In 1882 he purchased eleven acres of the original town plat of Redlands, of Messrs. Judson & Brown. Mr. Cutts had the fourteenth choice of location for which he paid the sum of ten dollars. The land itself at that time was sold for $100 an acre. Mr. and Mrs. Cutts have resided in Redlands since 1891.

(Source: Illustrated Redlands, 1897, p. 20.)