The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-16
Special Legislature Session For Next March
TERR. SENATOR
 McCUTCHEON x
 DEAD, ANCHORAGE
Member of Legislature, Oldest Member in Point
 of Service, Passes On

ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Nov. l6- Senator Herbert Hazard McCut- cheon, pioneer resident of Alaska and a member of the legislature for the past IA years, died Tuesday afternoon at Providence Hospital following an illness of several months.
 Survivors include his wife, Clara, and three sons: Stanley, Steve and Jerry, all of this city The remains are at the Haines Mortuary,
 One of the most colorful and well liked residents of the territory, MT. McCutcheon was the first Democrat to be elected to an all- Republican house in 1881, and at the time of his death was the oldest member in point of service. He served continuously, and in l94l became speaker of the House. He was elected to the Senate in l943, and served during the last session.
 4 strong supporter of the Pioneer Home, he favored old-age benefits and was a proponent of the Uni versity of Alaska and all educa- tional bills. He also favored aboli tion of fish traps in Alaska waters.
 He was born in Bayside, Humbold County, California, on July 3l, 1878. At the age of IA he joined the nler- chant marine and for the next few years travelled to all parts of the world, including Europe, Australia, New Zealand. China and South America. During the latter part of the sos, he trained the Lightweight boxing champion of the west coast
 Comes To Alaska
 In the spring of 1899 he came to Alaska in a sailing vessel and that year, as chief steward on the S. s. Corwin, he sailed between Seward and Unalaska. In the spring of 1900, while serving on the Cora, a steam schooner, he made a run into Nome with a load of stam- peders and decided to remain. While in Nome, he became a char ter member of the famed Radiator Sportsmen's Club" so-called be- cause it's members met in the only building in town that had steam heat.
 In 1903 he purchased a road house and general store at Golovin, and in his leisure time prospected in that area, stalking claim on Deer Creek. In the summer of 1900 he sold the claim to big mining company in the states, and then left for Seattle.
 Stampedcs To CordOva
 In 1909, while attending the fair in San Francisco, he heard about the new stampede at Cordova where a railroad was being built to the Kennecott copper mines. He immediately left for Cordova, and after arriving there, met Clara Krueger, whom he married in Chitna in 1910. They returned to Cordova and the next year their first son. Steve, was born.
 The family then moved to Van couver, B. C., where MT. McCut- cheon had various commercial in- terests. In the spring of 1915, news Of the railroad construction at Ship Creek reached him, and he left for this vicinity.
 Arriving here, he was employed as contractor for the Alaska En- gineering Commission and built a large portion of the railroad at Birchwood When the line had been constructed as far as Whitney Station, he was made the first section foreman on the Alaska Fairbanks division. His family joined him that fall and his second son, Stanley, was born. He was later transferred from the Whitney section and became yard foreman in Anchorage. He retired as road master in 1888.
 He was one of the first members to join the local Elks Lodge in 1919 and served as Exalted Ruler | He attended the Elks convention in Portland, Ore, in 1925, and later was made District Deputy for AL aska Shortly before his death he received a silver Elks button ill honor of 25 years of membership.
 He was elected president of the Pioneers Igloo last December, but due to ill health, was not in- stalled until several months ago, and was able to preside during only | one session.