Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A.
& U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Kenton County.
The Poets and Poetry of Kentucky, page 564.

GEORGE WASHINGTON CUTTER
Was born in Massachusetts about 1809, and died in Washington city, Dec.
24, 1865, aged 56; was for a number of years a resident of Kentucky;
practiced law at Covington; commanded a company of Kentuckians in the
Mexican war, and on the field of carnage, after the battle, wrote his poem
"Buena Vista;" was at one time a citizen of Indiana, and a member of the
Indians legislature.  His poems - of which the "Song of Steam" is the
finest and best known - were twice collected and published in a volume, in
1848 and 1857. [Note: Poems shown were one cited above, "The Song of
Lightning," and "Invocation."]

Cutter
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MA Washington-DC Mexico IN

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