BIO: Hays W. CULP, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Denise Phillips Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ Donehoo, George P., Editor-in-Chief. Pennsylvania, A History, Vol. 3, Biography. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1926, page 68. _________________________________________ HAYS W. CULP - A veteran member of the bar of Blair County, Hays W. Culp is one of the most prominent attorneys of Altoona, the county's largest city. With a practice that extends to the county seat, Hollidaysburg, he has an extensive clientele. He is an active citizen of Altoona and well known in club and fraternal circles, and he is solicitor for several financial institutions of the mountain city. Hays W. Culp was born at Sinking Valley, Blair County, December 3, 1868, the son of Samuel Culp, a native of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, who was a veteran of the Civil and Mexican wars, having served with Pennsylvania troops, and who was a blacksmith all his life and up to the time of his death in 1894; and Mary (Wilson) Culp, a native of Huntingdon County, who died in 1920. Hays W. Culp got his early education in the public schools of Sinking Valley, in the State Normal School at Indiana and in Grove City College. He took his law studies under H.M. Baldridge, a lawyer of Altoona, under whom he read law until 1898. He was admitted to the bar of Blair County in that year and has practiced ever since in that city, with offices in the Lippman Building. Mr. Culp is a member of the Altoona Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Altoona Chapter of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, the Blair County Bar Association and the Pennsylvania State Bar Association. He is solicitor for several building and loan associations in Altoona. Mr. Culp married Margaret Cranford, a native of Sinking Valley, in 1902, and of this union there are three children: Foster C.; Samuel H.; and Margaret L. The Culp family resides in Altoona and are members of the Presbyterian Church in that city.