Robert L. Cutting

Robert Livingston Cutting (January 19, 1812 – February 25, 1887) was an American businessperson based in New York City. At one point president of the New York Stock Exchange, he was a co-founder of the Continental Bank of New York in August 1870. Early life Cutting was born on January 19, 1812, in New York City. He was the son of William Cutting (1773–1820) and Gertrude (née Livingston) Cutting (1779–1864). His siblings included William Leonard Cutting; U.S. Representative Francis Brockholst Cutting; Henry Livingston Cutting; Charles Grenville Cutting; Julia Gertrude Cutting; Anne Frances Cutting, who married Baron Alfred Ruebell; and Robert Fulton Cutting, who married poet Elise Justine Bayard; and Walter Livingston Cutting. His maternal grandparents were Walter Livingston, the first Speaker of the New York State Assembly, and Cornelia (née Schuyler) Livingston. His uncle was U.S. Representative Henry Walter Livingston, and through the Livingston family, he was a descendant of Judge Robert Livingston and indirectly of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat. He was educated at Columbia College.