Biographical Sketch of Sanders McCULLOUGH (1893); Chester County, PA

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Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania,
comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by
Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1893, pp.
212-3.

"SANDERS McCULLOUGH, who turned his attention chiefly and successfully to agri-
cultural pursuits, and who was a highly respected citizen of Oxford, was a son
of Hugh and Grace (Bell) McCullough, and was born in Lancaster county, February
27, 1809.  Hugh McCullough was born and reared in Lancaster county, of which he
was a life-long resident.  He passed his life on the farm on which he was born,
and died May 3, 1848, when well advanced in the seventy-seventh year of his
age.  He was an extensive farmer for his day, and a man who was progressive in
agricultural affairs.  He was a strong democrat, trained in the Jeffersonian
school, and an ardent supporter of Jackson.  He married Grace Bell, and reared
a family of four children.

"Sanders McCullough grew to manhood on his father's farm in Lancaster county,
and received his education in the schools of his neighborhood.  He assisted his
father for a few years in the management and cultivation of the home farm, and
then engaged in farming for himself, which he followed successfully in his
native county until April, 1874, when he removed to Oxford, this county, where
he resided until his death, in 1885.

"On May 19, 1840, Mr. McCullough married Sarah Rowlands, who died April 10,
1849, and on January 16, 1851, he wedded Jeannette King, who is a daughter of
John King, a native and life-long resident of Lancaster county, where he died
in January, 1847, when in the fifty-fourth year of his age.  Mr. King was a
prosperous farmer, a strong democrat, and a strict and useful member of the
Presbyterian church.  He married Isabella McSparran, and reared a family of
two children: Mrs. Jeannette McCullough and Mrs. Eleanor Sides.

"Sanders McCullough was a successful farmer and business man.  He took delight
in farming, did all of his work well, and was industrious, hospitable, and
charitable.  He died on June 26, 1885, and his remains were entombed in a beau-
tiful spot in Chestnut Level cemetery.  He was an old-time democrat in poli-
tics, and an active and prominent member and ruling elder of the Presbyterian
church.  Mr. McCullough honored the responsible position which he held in a
church that has always called to the eldership men of blameless character and
uprightness in life.  He was a highly respected citizen, an earnest Christian,
and a useful man, whose death was sincerely deplored by all who knew him."