CULKIN, Laurent, MS., then St. Martin Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. LAURENT CULKIN, M.D., ST. MARTINVILLE.--By birth, Dr. Culkin is a Mississippian, but by adoption a Louisianian. He was born in Yazoo (now Sharkey) county, Mississippi, November 1, 1839. His father, Edward Culkin, was born in Ireland, but removed to America when a boy. After attaining the years of manhood he located in Yazoo, Mississippi, where he began planting, and was very successful, and at the beginning of the war he operated a large and valuable plantation. By the war he lost nearly everything he possessed. But, accepting the decree of fate, he began with determined zeal to amend his fallen fortune, but ere he attained his hope he died, in 1866. Our subject's mother was Miss Mary Conley; she became the mother of five sons and two daughters, the Doctor being the youngest of the family. Dr. Culkin was reared in Mississippi, where he received good educational advantages. When eighteen years of age he entered Trinity Medical College, Dublin, Ireland, where he remained four years, graduating with honors. Returning to his native State with the intention of practising [sic] his profession, he entered the Confederate service, and was surgeon in the command of Bedford Forrest until the close of the war. After the war he resumed his practice in Mississippi. In 1871 he removed to Louisiana, and first located in New Orleans in 1882. He then removed to this place where he has since practised and become recognized as one of the leading physicians of his section. Dr. Culkin married quite early in life Miss Dorothca Owen, a native of Kentucky, though reared and educated in Mississippi. To this union were born two sons; one died in infancy the other when just on the verge of manhood. Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp. 317-318. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.