Lucas County IA Archives Biographies.....Culbertson, Aurelius 1819 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

AURELIUS CULBERTSON.-In the subject of this sketch is found a representative
farmer of Lucas county, Iowa. He owns 230 acres of land in section 17, Lincoln
township, about 70 acres of which are timber land, the rest being devoted to
general farming and stock-raising. Here he has lived and prospered since
December, 1868, giving his whole attention to the improvement and cultivation of
his farm. Mr. Culbertson was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, August 12, 1819,
son of Alexander and Alice (Mason) Culbertson. Alexander Culbertson was born in
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and in 1810 removed to Muskingum county,
Ohio. In Ohio he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring May 7, 1851. By
trade he was a millwright. For some years he ran a grist and saw mill, and was
very successful in this, and later in life devoted his attention to agricultural
pursuits. March 27, 1895, he and his venerable wife celebrated their golden
wedding. The subject of our sketch spent his boyhood days on his father's farm,
and during the winter months attended school in one of the primitive log
school-houses which have so often been described in connection with the early
history of the West.

   Aurelius Culbertson chose for his wife Margaret Gallagher, a native of county
Donegal, Ireland, born October 11, 1821, daughter of Patrick M. and Martha
(McFeeters) Gallagher, the Gallagher family having removed from Ireland to this
country in 1836. In this family were six children, four daughters and two sons.
Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Culbertson, we make record as follows:
John, born January 8, 1846, has been County Treasurer of Lucas county and is at
present cashier of the Chariton Savings Bank; Alsia J., wife of James Alexander,
lives at Orchard, Nebraska; Louis A., born October 8, 1850, is engaged in
mercantile pursuits; Howard, born April 5, 1852, is in business at Wallace,
Nebraska; Sarah F., wife of George Champlin, was previous to her marriage a
teacher; Mary Adelaide, died November 20, 1881, and is buried in Chariton
cemetery; Martha Elizabeth, wife of Jesse Snedecker, Mount Ayr, Ringgold county,
Iowa, where Mr. Snedecker is engaged in merchandising; James William, born
December 20, 1859; and Izetta D., who resides on the old homestead. Of the
eldest son, John, we further record that he married Angeline Irwin, and that she
died, leaving him with four children, Lee, Irwin, Edward A. and Angelin,-the
latter only residing with the parents. He was married again in 1887, to Clara
Hollinger, and Charles C. was born to them August 28, 1893.

   Politically, Mr. Culbertson is a Republican.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

ILLUSTRATED

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."'—MACAULAY.

"Biography is by nature the must universally profitable, universally pleasant,
of all things."—CARLYLE

"History is only biography on a large scale"—LAMARTINE.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896


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