Edward Cutbush

Edward Cutbush was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1794, where he was resident physician of the Pennsylvania Hospital from 1790 to 1794. Cutbush was surgeon general of the Pennsylvania militia during the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion.

Cutbush was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1772. He was the son of Edward Cutbush and Anne Marriat who married on September 3, 1770. His father, a British immigrant, was a stonecutter or carver. Philadelphian, William Rush , a famous woodworking artist and carver of ship models, was an apprentice of the senior Cutbush. Rush began carving ship figureheads as early as 1790 and gained much notoriety for his distinguished artwork.

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