“Cub” Berdan was a tune composer/publisher located in Detroit in the 1800s. Cub is responsible for the “Pacific Quadrille” among others.

The following was written by Jim McKinney

“This is a rare picture of Orange Fame “Cub” Berdan from the family album
maintained by his granddaughter, Ginny. I’ve shared my research about
her famous grandfather with her and she has shared some family
photographs with me. We’re planning to meet in April to discuss and
record her memories of the early Berdan family.

Cub Berdan was born in Macon Township, Michigan in 1841, the fourth of
five children. His ancestors were Dutch immigrants to this country,
descended from Huguenots fleeing religious persecution in France.

He enlisted in Company C of the Fifth Michigan Cavalry as a bugler
during the Civil War. His regiment fought under the leadership of
General George Armstrong Custer, but he left the army at the end of the
war, thirteen months before the creation of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry
that fought at Little Big Horn.

His obituary reports that he was playing in the orchestra at Ford’s
Theatre the night Abraham Lincoln was shot but I’m still looking for
some documentation to support that assertion.

After the war, Cub Berdan returned to Michigan where he played for a
time in the Ypsilanti Cornet Band. He married Fannie Lee Whitney in 1878
and had two children. He owned music stores in Adrian and Detroit and
performed on the concert circuit in southern Michigan and northern Ohio.
He was considered by some to be one of the leading violinists in the
country.

By 1895, his health began to decline, due in large part to dysentery he
had contracted during the civil war.

In 1900, he was admitted to the Wayne County Asylum, (also known as
Eloise Hospital) with chronic dysentery, dementia and blindness in at
least one eye.”

He died October 10, 1901 at Eloise and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in
Adrian, Michigan.

The Library of Congress has a significant collection of Cub Berdan notation that can be viewed here: https://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=contributor:berdan

Here is a link to another Cub Berdan article: https://aadl.org/ypsigleanings/253982

Another article about Berdan: https://www.trumpet-history.com/OF%20Berdan.htm