Eph Culp
For a great many years Goshen has had as one of its best known firms the undertaking and embalming establishment of E Culp & Sons, the senior member of which is Eph Culp, a native of Elkhart County and member of a pioneer family. The name bespeaks one of the largest family relationships in Elkhart County, and since the early pioneer times the Culps have been active and useful in developing the land, in business and in varied trades and professions.
On the old home farm in Harrison Township, Eph Culp was born July 26, 1864, the oldest son of Henry J and Catherine (Laucks) Culp. Peter Laucks, father of Catherine, was also an early settler in Elkhart County, and died in 1899 at a ripe old age.
Henry J Culp was brought to Indiana when eleven years of age by his parents, and after his marriage he located on a farm in Harrison Township and devoted the best years of his life to agriculture. He made one of the fine farms of Harrison township, improved with good buildings, with the land in perfect cultivation, and with cattle, horses and hogs. Henry J Culp is now living retired.
During his boyhood on the farm Eph Culp attended District School No 4 in Harrison Township, and secured also a good physical training by the various duties around the home place. Leaving school at the age of fourteen, he began regular work, and found varied employment up to his twenty-first year. He then learned the trade of carpenter and continued to live in his father's home until the age of twenty-six, when he married Miss Amanda Gorsuch, a daughter of William and Nancy (Cripe) Gorsuch.
After his marriage Mr Culp bought a farm of sixty-three acres in Harrison Township and looked after its cultivation nine months. On May 5, 1891, he moved his family to Goshen and took up the business of funeral director and embalmer.
In the past quarter of a century Mr Culp has supplied an efficient and kindly service to a great many of the best families in the county and as his sons grew to manhood they also became associated with him until the name of the firm was changed to E Culp & Sons, undertakers and embalmers. This firm, which has recently completed twenty-five years of business activity, has always been progressive, and a mark of this is found in the fact that it was the first firm to introduce the automobile into the undertaking business in Elkhart County. They now have an extensive equipment, employing both automobiles and horses.
Mr Culp's sons are Elmer J, Floyd S and Joy W. The sons Elmer and Floyd are both associated in business with their father.
Mr Eph Culp is a graduate of the J H Clark School of Embalming at Cincinnati, Ohio, and his license number is 14. He received his diploma in 1893. His son Elmer graduated from the Barnes School of Chicago in 1911 and the number of his license as an embalmer is 1462. Floyd graduated from the Worsham School of Chicago in 1914, with license No 1713. The youngest son Joy W is now connected with the Golden Rule drug store at Goshen.
Mr Eph Culp is one of the oldest undertakers and embalmers in Elkhart County. Aside from his business he has a valuable property in Goshen and is one of the prosperous citizens.
A Standard History of Elkhart County, Indiana: An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development
Vol 2
Abraham E Weaver
1916
Contributor: Linda K (47400410) • [email protected]
For a great many years Goshen has had as one of its best known firms the undertaking and embalming establishment of E Culp & Sons, the senior member of which is Eph Culp, a native of Elkhart County and member of a pioneer family. The name bespeaks one of the largest family relationships in Elkhart County, and since the early pioneer times the Culps have been active and useful in developing the land, in business and in varied trades and professions.
On the old home farm in Harrison Township, Eph Culp was born July 26, 1864, the oldest son of Henry J and Catherine (Laucks) Culp. Peter Laucks, father of Catherine, was also an early settler in Elkhart County, and died in 1899 at a ripe old age.
Henry J Culp was brought to Indiana when eleven years of age by his parents, and after his marriage he located on a farm in Harrison Township and devoted the best years of his life to agriculture. He made one of the fine farms of Harrison township, improved with good buildings, with the land in perfect cultivation, and with cattle, horses and hogs. Henry J Culp is now living retired.
During his boyhood on the farm Eph Culp attended District School No 4 in Harrison Township, and secured also a good physical training by the various duties around the home place. Leaving school at the age of fourteen, he began regular work, and found varied employment up to his twenty-first year. He then learned the trade of carpenter and continued to live in his father's home until the age of twenty-six, when he married Miss Amanda Gorsuch, a daughter of William and Nancy (Cripe) Gorsuch.
After his marriage Mr Culp bought a farm of sixty-three acres in Harrison Township and looked after its cultivation nine months. On May 5, 1891, he moved his family to Goshen and took up the business of funeral director and embalmer.
In the past quarter of a century Mr Culp has supplied an efficient and kindly service to a great many of the best families in the county and as his sons grew to manhood they also became associated with him until the name of the firm was changed to E Culp & Sons, undertakers and embalmers. This firm, which has recently completed twenty-five years of business activity, has always been progressive, and a mark of this is found in the fact that it was the first firm to introduce the automobile into the undertaking business in Elkhart County. They now have an extensive equipment, employing both automobiles and horses.
Mr Culp's sons are Elmer J, Floyd S and Joy W. The sons Elmer and Floyd are both associated in business with their father.
Mr Eph Culp is a graduate of the J H Clark School of Embalming at Cincinnati, Ohio, and his license number is 14. He received his diploma in 1893. His son Elmer graduated from the Barnes School of Chicago in 1911 and the number of his license as an embalmer is 1462. Floyd graduated from the Worsham School of Chicago in 1914, with license No 1713. The youngest son Joy W is now connected with the Golden Rule drug store at Goshen.
Mr Eph Culp is one of the oldest undertakers and embalmers in Elkhart County. Aside from his business he has a valuable property in Goshen and is one of the prosperous citizens.
A Standard History of Elkhart County, Indiana: An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development
Vol 2
Abraham E Weaver
1916
Contributor: Linda K (47400410) • [email protected]
Eph Culp
For a great many years Goshen has had as one of its best known firms the undertaking and embalming establishment of E Culp & Sons, the senior member of which is Eph Culp, a native of Elkhart County and member of a pioneer family. The name bespeaks one of the largest family relationships in Elkhart County, and since the early pioneer times the Culps have been active and useful in developing the land, in business and in varied trades and professions.
On the old home farm in Harrison Township, Eph Culp was born July 26, 1864, the oldest son of Henry J and Catherine (Laucks) Culp. Peter Laucks, father of Catherine, was also an early settler in Elkhart County, and died in 1899 at a ripe old age.
Henry J Culp was brought to Indiana when eleven years of age by his parents, and after his marriage he located on a farm in Harrison Township and devoted the best years of his life to agriculture. He made one of the fine farms of Harrison township, improved with good buildings, with the land in perfect cultivation, and with cattle, horses and hogs. Henry J Culp is now living retired.
During his boyhood on the farm Eph Culp attended District School No 4 in Harrison Township, and secured also a good physical training by the various duties around the home place. Leaving school at the age of fourteen, he began regular work, and found varied employment up to his twenty-first year. He then learned the trade of carpenter and continued to live in his father's home until the age of twenty-six, when he married Miss Amanda Gorsuch, a daughter of William and Nancy (Cripe) Gorsuch.
After his marriage Mr Culp bought a farm of sixty-three acres in Harrison Township and looked after its cultivation nine months. On May 5, 1891, he moved his family to Goshen and took up the business of funeral director and embalmer.
In the past quarter of a century Mr Culp has supplied an efficient and kindly service to a great many of the best families in the county and as his sons grew to manhood they also became associated with him until the name of the firm was changed to E Culp & Sons, undertakers and embalmers. This firm, which has recently completed twenty-five years of business activity, has always been progressive, and a mark of this is found in the fact that it was the first firm to introduce the automobile into the undertaking business in Elkhart County. They now have an extensive equipment, employing both automobiles and horses.
Mr Culp's sons are Elmer J, Floyd S and Joy W. The sons Elmer and Floyd are both associated in business with their father.
Mr Eph Culp is a graduate of the J H Clark School of Embalming at Cincinnati, Ohio, and his license number is 14. He received his diploma in 1893. His son Elmer graduated from the Barnes School of Chicago in 1911 and the number of his license as an embalmer is 1462. Floyd graduated from the Worsham School of Chicago in 1914, with license No 1713. The youngest son Joy W is now connected with the Golden Rule drug store at Goshen.
Mr Eph Culp is one of the oldest undertakers and embalmers in Elkhart County. Aside from his business he has a valuable property in Goshen and is one of the prosperous citizens.
A Standard History of Elkhart County, Indiana: An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development
Vol 2
Abraham E Weaver
1916
Contributor: Linda K (47400410) • [email protected]
For a great many years Goshen has had as one of its best known firms the undertaking and embalming establishment of E Culp & Sons, the senior member of which is Eph Culp, a native of Elkhart County and member of a pioneer family. The name bespeaks one of the largest family relationships in Elkhart County, and since the early pioneer times the Culps have been active and useful in developing the land, in business and in varied trades and professions.
On the old home farm in Harrison Township, Eph Culp was born July 26, 1864, the oldest son of Henry J and Catherine (Laucks) Culp. Peter Laucks, father of Catherine, was also an early settler in Elkhart County, and died in 1899 at a ripe old age.
Henry J Culp was brought to Indiana when eleven years of age by his parents, and after his marriage he located on a farm in Harrison Township and devoted the best years of his life to agriculture. He made one of the fine farms of Harrison township, improved with good buildings, with the land in perfect cultivation, and with cattle, horses and hogs. Henry J Culp is now living retired.
During his boyhood on the farm Eph Culp attended District School No 4 in Harrison Township, and secured also a good physical training by the various duties around the home place. Leaving school at the age of fourteen, he began regular work, and found varied employment up to his twenty-first year. He then learned the trade of carpenter and continued to live in his father's home until the age of twenty-six, when he married Miss Amanda Gorsuch, a daughter of William and Nancy (Cripe) Gorsuch.
After his marriage Mr Culp bought a farm of sixty-three acres in Harrison Township and looked after its cultivation nine months. On May 5, 1891, he moved his family to Goshen and took up the business of funeral director and embalmer.
In the past quarter of a century Mr Culp has supplied an efficient and kindly service to a great many of the best families in the county and as his sons grew to manhood they also became associated with him until the name of the firm was changed to E Culp & Sons, undertakers and embalmers. This firm, which has recently completed twenty-five years of business activity, has always been progressive, and a mark of this is found in the fact that it was the first firm to introduce the automobile into the undertaking business in Elkhart County. They now have an extensive equipment, employing both automobiles and horses.
Mr Culp's sons are Elmer J, Floyd S and Joy W. The sons Elmer and Floyd are both associated in business with their father.
Mr Eph Culp is a graduate of the J H Clark School of Embalming at Cincinnati, Ohio, and his license number is 14. He received his diploma in 1893. His son Elmer graduated from the Barnes School of Chicago in 1911 and the number of his license as an embalmer is 1462. Floyd graduated from the Worsham School of Chicago in 1914, with license No 1713. The youngest son Joy W is now connected with the Golden Rule drug store at Goshen.
Mr Eph Culp is one of the oldest undertakers and embalmers in Elkhart County. Aside from his business he has a valuable property in Goshen and is one of the prosperous citizens.
A Standard History of Elkhart County, Indiana: An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development
Vol 2
Abraham E Weaver
1916
Contributor: Linda K (47400410) • [email protected]
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