Cutcheon, Byron M. The American system. [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884].
CUTCHEON, Byron M., a Representative from Michigan; born in Pembroke, Merrimack County, N.H., May 11, 1836; attended the common schools and Pembroke Academy; taught school in Pembroke for several years; moved to Ypsilanti, Mich., in 1855; principal of Birmingham Academy, Oakland County, in 1857; attended Ypsilanti Seminary, and was graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1861; professor of ancient languages in the Ypsilanti High School 1861 and 1862; enlisted in the Union Army in 1862 and served in the Twentieth Regiment, Michigan Infantry, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel; commissioned colonel of the Twenty-seventh Regiment, Michigan Infantry November 12, 1864; commanded the Second Brigade, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps, from October 16, 1864, until his resignation on March 6, 1865; was graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1866; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Ionia, Mich.; moved to Manistee, Mich., in 1867; member of the board of control of railroads of Michigan 1867-1883; city attorney of Manistee, Mich., 1870-1873; prosecuting attorney of Manistee County, Mich., in 1873 and 1874; regent of Michigan University 1875-1881; postmaster of Manistee, Mich., 1877-1883; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Fifty-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; awarded a Medal of Honor by Congress June 29, 1891, "for distinguished gallantry at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Ky., May 10, 1863"; appointed civilian member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications by President Harrison in July 1891 and served until March 25, 1895; editorial writer for the Detroit Daily Tribune and Detroit Journal 1895-1897; resumed the practice of law in Grand Rapids, Mich.; died in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Mich., April 12, 1908; interment in Highland Cemetery.
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[ Top ]Cutcheon, Byron M. The American system. [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884].
------. The bonded extension bill. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1884.
------. A national policy of public buildings. The public building at Detroit, Michigan. Speech of Hon. Byron M. Cutcheon, of Michigan, in the House of Representatives, Saturday, July 5, 1884. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1884.
------. The prohibition of the importation of "contract labor". Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1884.
------. Recollections of Burnside's East Tennessee campaign of 1863. Prepared by Companion Brevet Brigadier General Byron M. Cutcheon and read at the stated meeting of January 1, 1902. [Washington: N.p., 1902].
------. Smokeless powder, the facts stated. Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros., printers, 1899.
------. The story of the Twentieth Michigan infantry, July 15th, 1862, to May 30th, 1865. Lansing, Mich.: R. Smith Printing Co., 1904.
------. A tribute to the life and character of James Abram Garfield. A memorial address delivered at Manistee, Sept. 25, 1881. [N.p., 1881].
United States. Congress. House. Committee on military affairs. Letter of Gen. Byron M. Cutcheon relating to H. R. 8989, to create a special roll, to be known as the "Volunteer retired list," before the Committee on military affairs, House of Representatives [dated Dec. 31, 1906]. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1907.
Utley, Henry M. (Henry Munson), and Byron M. Cutcheon, comp. The class of sixty-one, University of Michigan and something about what "the boys" have been doing during forty years from 1861 to 1901. [Detroit: J. Bornman & Son], 1902.
------. Michigan as a province, territory and state, the twenty-sixth member of the federal Union. Advisory editor, Clarence M. Burton. [New York]: The Publishing Society of Michigan, 1906.