Cabell County, West Virginia           Biography of F. Witcher MCCULLOUGH

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 57-58

F. WITCHER MCCULLOUGH, one of the representative members of the bar of the
City of Huntington, distinctly advanced his professional prestige by his long
and able service as assistant United States district attorney for the
Southern District of West Virginia, an office of which he was the incumbent
from November, 1913, until December 31, 1921, when he resigned, owing to the
exigent demands placed upon him in connection with the large law business
controlled by the firm of which he is a member, that of Warth, McCullough &
Peyton.

The MCullough family, as the name clearly indicates, is one whose lineage
traces back to staunch Scotch origin, and the original representatives of the
family in America settled in Pennsylvania many generations ago.  In that
state, in Washington County, was born Dr. Patrick Henry McCullough on July
12, 1816, and he received excellent educational advantages, both academic and
professional.  As a young man he became a pioneer physician and surgeon in
Cabell County, West Virginia, as now constituted, and he was long numbered
among the leading medical practitioners in the City of Huntington, where his
death occurred May 30, 1892.  His character and service marked him as one of
the honored and influential citizens of the county in which he long
maintained his home and to the civic and material advancement of which he
contributed his quota.

Frank Witcher McCullough was born at Huntington, West Virginia, May 3, 1889,
and is a son of Frank F. and Alice V. (Witcher) McCullough, the former of
whom was born in Cabell County, this state (at that time still a part of
Virginia), in the year 1857, and the latter of whom was born in Cabell County
in 1861.  Frank F. McCullough has been a resident of Huntington from
virtually the time of its founding, and has witnessed and aided in the
development of this now important industrial and commercial city of his
native county and state.  He was for twenty-four years clerk of the Cabell
County Court, has long been one of the leading members of the bar of his
native county, and is still an active member of the representative Huntington
law firm of Warth, McCullough & Peyton.  His political allegiance is given to
the democratic party, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South.  Of their children the firstborn was Flora Witcher,
who was eighteen years of age at the time of her death, on July 18, 1906, her
birthday; and the one surviving child is he whose name initiates this review.

The public schools of Huntington afforded F. Witcher McCullough his
preliminary education, which was supplemented by his attending the Bingham
Military Academy, Asheville, North Carolina, for three years.  In the autumn
of 1908 he entered the law department of the University of West Virginia, in
which he was graduated in the spring of 1910, his reception of the degree of
Bachelor of Laws having been virtually coincident with his admission to the
bar of his native state.  In the law school he was president of his class in
his freshman year, and at the university also he became affiliated with the
Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.  He was twenty-one years of age at the time of his
admission to the bar, and in the general practice of his profession at
Huntington he has been identified with important cases in the various courts
of this section of the state and has clearly demonstrated his powers as a
resourceful lawyer in both the civil and criminal departments of practice.
The representative law firm of which he is a member maintains offices in both
the Ohio Valley Bank Building and the First National Bank Building at
Huntington, he being a director of the former institution and also its
official attorney.  He is vice president and attorney of the Buffalo Thacker
Coal Company.

In November, 1913, Mr. McCullough was appointed first assistant United States
attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, under the administration
of William G. Barnhart.  Upon the resignation of Mr. Barnhart from the office
of district attorney, in June, 1917, Mr. McCullough was appointed acting
district attorney, in which capacity he served until the following October,
when Lon H. Kelly, the present United States attorney, was appointed.
Thereafter he continued his service as chief assistant to the district
attorney until December 31, 1921, when he resigned, and noted in the opening
paragraph of this sketch.

Mr. McCullough has been at active worker in the ranks of the democratic party
in this section of the state, has been a delegate to its state, district and
county conventions and has otherwise been influential in its councils.  He
and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church, he holds
membership in the Huntington Chamber of Commerce ant the Guyan Country Club,
and is affiliated with Huntington Lodge No. 53, A. F. and A. M., and
Huntington Lodge No. 313, B. P. O. E.  He owns and occupies an attractive
modern residence at 1500 South Twentieth Street.

On the 30th of January, 1912, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McCullough
and Miss Kathleen Guthrie, daughter of Dr. L V. and Margaret (Lynn) Guthrie,
Dr. Guthrie being superintendent of the West Virginia State Hospital at
Huntington.  Mr. and Mrs. McCullough have two children:  Witcher Guthrie,
born July 8, 1915, and Frank Witcher, Jr., born December 4, 1920.