Biographical Sketch of Peter Howell Culp, Johnson County, Missouri,
Warrensburg Township

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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Peter Howell Culp was born in 1857 in Gentry county, Missouri, son of 
Johnson and Luvina (Cate) Culp who were the parents of eight children,
only two of whom are now living: Peter Howell, of this review; and John
P. Culp, Cement, Oklahoma.  Johnson Culp was born in Randolph county 
and when seventeen years old moved to Gentry county, Missouri.  He was
a son of Peter Culp, Sr., a native of South Carolina, who came to Miss-
ouri in a very early day, probably sometime in the twenties or thirties
when the Indians occupied the country.  He lived to a noble, old age 
and died in Gentry county.  The parents of Luvina (Cate) Culp were 
originally from Tennessee. They settled in pioneer days in Clay county,
Missouri, and when she was a small child moved to Gentry county and
there she was reared, educated, and married.  Johnson Culp's death
occurred in 1902 in Gentry county and Peter Howell Culp, with the 
widowed mother, moved to Johnson county on a farm in Hazel Hill town-
ship, where the mother died in June, 1904.  Interment was made in 
Gentry county by the side of her husband.  Johnson Culp was a man 
worthy of the highest honor and respect.  He endured bravely and cheer-
fully countless hardships incidental to the Civil War and nobly cared
for his widowed mother and provided for all his family.  Two of his
wife's brothers served in the Union army and one was killed in a skir-
mish near Lonejack.  He was buried at Holden, Missouri.  One brother of
Mrs. Johnson Culp served throughout the war in the Confederate army.
After receiving a good common school education in the public schools of
Gentry county, Peter Howell Culp engaged in farming.  Until he was 22
years of age, he remained with his parents and since that time has been
farming for himself, with the exception of two years, when he was
engaged in the livery business.  In 1902, he purchased his present
country home from Theodore Stockton.  A part of this farm, which com-
prises 320 acres of land, was entered by the Stocktons from the govern-
ment.  There are two sets of improvements upon the farm.  The splendid
silo, of which Mr. Culp may well be proud, was erected by him in 1914.
He, with the assistance of his two sons, Charles E. and John F., is
developing the place into a dairy farm and they now have sixty head of
cattle and are milking twenty-eight cows at the time of this writing,
in 1917, and will soon increase to thirty.  Milk from the Culp dairy is
delivered twice daily in Warrensburg.  Mr. Culp is also engaged in 
general farming and fifty acres of the place are in corn, seventy-five
acres in hay, and the balance in pasture.  In 1877, Peter Howell Culp
and Margaret N. Branham, of Gentry county, were united in marriage.  
Mrs. Culp is a daughter of Jonathan Branham, a native of Indiana, who
moved to Gentry county, Missouri, in a very early day.  Margaret N.
(Branham) Culp was born in Gentry county, Missouri.  To Mr. and Mrs.
Culp have been born four sons: James, who died when eleven years old;
Charles E., who is associated with his father in the dairy business on
the home farm; Harry J., a farmer and stockman residing near Greendoor,
Missouri; and John F., on the home place with his parents.  All the 
Culp family are interested in the success of their dairy and are doing
everything in their power to make and keep it strictly sanitary and up
to date.  Mr. and Mrs. Culp are highly respected and esteemed in their
community and they are enrolled among the county's most valued citizens.

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