BIO: Alfred D. McCULLY, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 903 & 904.
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  ALFRED D. McCULLY,* general farmer and a representative citizen of Chest 
township, who has resided on his present place for the past twenty-five years, 
was born on the old McCully homestead in Chest township, June 26, 1850, and is a 
son of George R. and Malinda (Wolf) McCully.
  George R. McCully was born in 1820, at what was then called Wheatland, a small 
village in Clearfield county.  He was twelve years old when his parents moved to 
Jordan township, and there he worked through boyhood and until his marriage at 
digging iron ore and burning charcoal.  He then bought the old McCully homestead 
and after that followed farming and lumbering until 1867, when, on account of 
his father's need of him on the home farm, he moved back to Jordan township and 
lived there for seven years, giving his aged father filial care during his last 
days.  After the death of his parents he returned to his own farm in Chest 
township, where his death occurred in 1899.  He was a man of sterling character, 
honest and upright in all his business dealings and was respected by every one 
with whom he was associated in life.  For twelve years he served acceptably on 
the township school board.  He reared his family in the faith of the Baptist 
church.  He married Malinda Wolf, who was born in 1825 and was a daughter of 
Solomon and Martha (Foutz) Wolf.  Her people were of German extraction, while 
the McCullys are of Irish descent.  Joseph McCully, the grandfather of Alfred D. 
McCully, was born in Ireland and was eighteen years of age when he came to 
America.  In 1837 he bought his farm in Jordan township and lived there until 
his death at the age of seventy-six years.  He married Eliza Edmundson.  The 
surviving children of George R. McCully and wife are:  Alfred D., the oldest one 
of the family to be born on the homestead; John, a resident of Irvona, Pa.; 
George W., a farmer in Chest township; and Levi, a miner, in Jordan township.
  Alfred D. McCully obtained his education up to fourteen years, in an old log 
schoolhouse near the McGarvey farm.  Afterward he worked in the woods until he 
was twenty-one years of age, was married when about twenty-five years old, and 
since then has been mainly engaged in farming.  He has made many improvements on 
his land and has substantial buildings, finely cultivated fields and each year 
grows some excellent stock.  He is numbered with the substantial and successful 
men of this section.
  Mr. McCully was married in 1875 to Miss Adelia Barrett, who was born June 20, 
1854, in Jordan township, Clearfield county, a daughter of Hiram and Susan 
(Myers) Barrett, who came from Center county.  Mr. and Mrs. McCully's family 
consists of the following children:  Minnie Johns, whom they reared from the age 
of ten years, and who married Wiley Queen, who is in the railroad service and 
lives at Irvona (they have three children); Katherine, who is a popular teacher 
in the public schools of Glen Hope; and John T., who assists his father.  Mr. 
McCully and family are members of the Baptist church at Fairview, in which he 
has been a deacon for twenty years.  In politics he is a Democrat and is very 
active in campaign work.  In 1905 he was elected township tax collector and has 
continued to serve in this office until the present.