Title	Miss
Last Name	Nutter
First Name	Atta
Middle Name	L.
Maiden Name
Nick Name
Place of Birth	Ripley, ME
Date of Birth	1853-06-23
Place of Death	Dexter, ME
Date of Death	1925-07-03
Publication	The Eastern Gazette 7-9-1925, p.8
Obituary	Miss Atta L Nutter Funeral services for Miss Atta L. Nutter were held Monday morning from the home of her sister, Mrs. Albert L. Atkins, on Pleasant street. Miss Nutter passed to the higher life on Friday afternoon at the Plummer Memorial hospital, where she has been a patient for several weeks. Her death comes as a great sorrow to those who knew and loved her. The deceased was born in Ripley, June 23, 1853, the daughter or the late Richard and Lucy A. Nutter. She was educated in the Dexter schools, and was a graduate of the College for Women, at Kent's Hill. While acquiring her education she taught in several schools in and about Dexter. After her graduation she was a teacher of mathematics and English in the high schools of Gardiner, Goshen, N. Y., Wilmington, N. C., and was principal of the Pueblo high school, in Pueblo, Colo. Later she entered private school work and was employed in Mrs. Shaw's school in Boston and Miss Wheeler's in Providence, where she remained several years. She traveled extensively during the summer vacations, making many trips abroad for the purpose of study. After retiring from private school work, she became interested in Miss Tsuda's school for the higher education of women in Tokio, Japan, where she went to assist her in the development of her English department and taught three years. Upon her return from Japan she settled in Cambridge, Mass., where she has many friends among the professors and graduates of Harvard. She was associated with the Cambridge Public Library, where she was retained as a reviewer of books. She also tutored Harvard students and she was very active in all educational work in the city until her serious accident occurred a few years ago from which she never fully recovered. She was a member of the Ladies' City Club of Boston and of the Cathedral church of St. Paul, of Boston. The deceased was most loyal in her friendships an dduring her many years of suffering, was uncomplaining. The ever-constant devotion of her pupils was probably the greatest and most appreciative tribute to her life work, that of an educator. Miss Nutter is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Rosaline Clark, of Flagstaff, Arizona, and Mrs. Albert N. Atkins of Dexter, also one brother, R. W. Nutter, of Malden, Mass., and several nieces and nephews. The bereaved family have the heartfelt sympathy of their many friends in their great loss.