Caddo Parish  Biographies.....McCullough, John 1863 - 
Submitted by: Mike Miller
Date Submitted: 24 Sep 2006


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Author: Henry E Chambers

John S. McCullough was born and grew up in a section of Western Pennsylvania 
where the drilling and working of oil wells was a commonplace industry, and 
since early youth his experience has given him an intimate contact with all the 
operations and technical processes involved in bringing these natural resources 
to the surface.  Mr. McCullough was a pioneer drilling operator in the north 
Louisiana field, with which he has been identified more or less continuously 
for over fifteen years.  His home is at Shreveport.

Mr. McCullough was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in 1863, and was reared 
and received a Clinton school education there.  At the age of seventeen he went 
to work on a pipe line in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, for the J. N. Pew 
interests.  His experience took him to various Eastern fields, and in 1905 he 
went to Texas, and also did some work in Old Mexico for the Pearson syndicate.

In 1907, the year that the first development of the oil and gas resources of 
the north Louisiana field was started, he moved to Shreveport, and that city 
has been practically his home ever since.  However, for five years, ending in 
1918, his work as an oil operator and contracting driller extended to the oil 
fields of the Republic of Columbia, where he was associated with the Tropical 
Oil Company, made up of Pennsylvania oil men, including Trees and Crawford.

Mr. McCullough is widely known for his success in developing oil territory and 
his skill and efficiency in the drilling of wells.  His technical knowledge of 
geology, his practical experience in drilling and the handling of drilling 
operations have brought his services into great demand, and his work has been 
an important part of the history of a number of oil fields.  His oil 
development and drilling operations have been carried on under the name of the 
Triangle Drilling Company, a corporation of which he is president. His 
headquarters in Shreveport are in the Ardis Building. Mr. McCullough married 
Miss Lottie Byers.

In fraternal and social circles Mr. McCullough is a thirty-second degree 
Scottish Rite Mason, a Shriner, and a member of the Shreveport Golf and 
Community Club.

Additional Comments:
NOTE:  The sketch is accompanied by a black and white photograph/drawing of the 
subject.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 309-310, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published 
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.