Cutcheon, Byron M
was born May 11, 1836, in Pembroke, N. H. He served in the civil war; was assigned to the command of the second brigade, first division, ninth army corps, army of the Potomac, in 1864; and was mustered out in 1865. He was a member of the board of control of railroads of Michigan in 1866-83; was presidential elector in 1868; was city attorney in 1870-71; was county attorney in 1873-74; was regent of the Michigan university in 1875-83; was postmaster at Manistee City in 1877-83; and was elected to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, and fiftieth congresses, and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
During 1895-96 he was an editorial writer on the Detroit Daily Tribune; and since 1896 he has practiced law in Grand Rapids, Mich.