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Benjamin Franklin Orcutt (Michigan joiner, peace officer, and soldier)

b. 1815-02-09 d. 1867-12-12

Kalamazoo County, Michigan, carpenter, peace officer, and soldier. Washington County, Vermont, native. Son of Samuel Orcutt and Mary Orcutt. Married to Emily A. Swadel Orcutt on October 24, 1856. Father of of William Orcutt, Benjamin F. Orcutt, and Frank B. Orcutt. Resident of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, in 1837. Elected constable in Kalamazoo County in 1841. Served as a sergeant and first sergeant in the 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry during the Mexican-American War from 1847-1848. Carpenter in Kalamazoo in 1850. Deputy U.S. Marshall in Kalamazoo before 1854. Elected Sheriff of Kalamazoo County in 1854. Carpenter in Kalamazoo in 1860. Served in the 25th Michigan Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as a lieutenant colonel from September 22, 1862 to June 24, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kalamazoo County, Kalamazoo, p. 17A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kalamazoo County, Kalamazoo, p. 447.

Index to Complied Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Mexican War, _NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M616, Roll 0028.

_Death Records. Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan01:Allegan Way, 1867-1868, p. 208.

Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Vol. 25 (Kalamazoo, MI: Ihling Bros. & Everard , 1903), 1-3.

Samuel W. Durant, History of Kalamazoo County, Michigan(Philadelphia: Everets & Abbott, 1880), 280-282.

B.F. Travis, The Story of the Twenty-fifth Michigan(Kalamazoo, MI: Kalamazoo Printing Company, 1897), 372-375.

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Orcutt, Benjamin Franklin. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213450 (November 12, 2026).

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