 He was the brother of Robert Fulton Cutting (1852–1934), a financier.His paternal grandparents were William Cutting (1773–1820) and Gertrude Livingston (1778–1864), the sister of Henry Walter Livingston, a U.S. Representative from New York, and the daughter of Walter Livingston, the 1st Speaker of the New York State Assembly.He was the nephew of Francis Brockholst Cutting, also a U.S. Representative from New York.