Crawford Co KS.
CHARLES McCULLOUGH, proprietor of the Walnut Mills Railroad, agent and telegraph operator, was born in Ohio in 1840. At the age of thirteen he went to Iowa where he received a collegeate[sic] education. In 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, April 6, 1862, and suffered all the horrors of the Southern prison pens under the command of the notorious Wing, for six months and eleven days, and was then sent home on parole until exchanged. In the spring of 1863 re-enlisted as a veteran with the rank of Sergeant, and was promoted to First Lieutenant of Company C, Seventy-first United States Volunteers. He resigned in the fall of 1864, and returned to Iowa and engaged in the lumber business, remaining in that State until 1874, when he went into a telegraph office in Decatur, Ill., and remained seven months. In the fall of 1875, he came to Kansas, where he received an appointment as railroad agent on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, with headquarters at Hepler, Kan., holding the position until April, 1882; he then bought the vacated mill of H. C. Bruner, Walnut, and in connection with Mr. Hollister fitted it up with new machinery, including three run of French buhrs, and now does a large and flourishing business, shipping large quantities of flour and meal to various points in Texas as well as supplying the home demand. Mr. McCullough also owns McCullough's Addition to Hepler, comprising twenty acres platted and laid out; a farm near the town, and a fine residence in the city of Walnut. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was married in 1865 to Miss Elizabeth Parrish, of Michigan, who also received a collegiate education in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough have four children, Willie F., Sadie E., John O. and Nannie E.
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Note: After this article was written, a daughter, Mary, was born to Charles and his wife, Mary. Charles and his 15 year old daughter were in Jackson Co KS in 1900 census. J.O. "John Orrin" was married to Margaret J McCrory of Jackson Co KS. They had a daughter who was born in 1923, died the same day. Margaret died two years later, both buried at Denison Cemetery.
CHARLES McCULLOUGH, proprietor of the Walnut Mills Railroad, agent and telegraph operator, was born in Ohio in 1840. At the age of thirteen he went to Iowa where he received a collegeate[sic] education. In 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, April 6, 1862, and suffered all the horrors of the Southern prison pens under the command of the notorious Wing, for six months and eleven days, and was then sent home on parole until exchanged. In the spring of 1863 re-enlisted as a veteran with the rank of Sergeant, and was promoted to First Lieutenant of Company C, Seventy-first United States Volunteers. He resigned in the fall of 1864, and returned to Iowa and engaged in the lumber business, remaining in that State until 1874, when he went into a telegraph office in Decatur, Ill., and remained seven months. In the fall of 1875, he came to Kansas, where he received an appointment as railroad agent on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, with headquarters at Hepler, Kan., holding the position until April, 1882; he then bought the vacated mill of H. C. Bruner, Walnut, and in connection with Mr. Hollister fitted it up with new machinery, including three run of French buhrs, and now does a large and flourishing business, shipping large quantities of flour and meal to various points in Texas as well as supplying the home demand. Mr. McCullough also owns McCullough's Addition to Hepler, comprising twenty acres platted and laid out; a farm near the town, and a fine residence in the city of Walnut. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was married in 1865 to Miss Elizabeth Parrish, of Michigan, who also received a collegiate education in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough have four children, Willie F., Sadie E., John O. and Nannie E.
http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/crawford/crawford-co-p15.html
Note: After this article was written, a daughter, Mary, was born to Charles and his wife, Mary. Charles and his 15 year old daughter were in Jackson Co KS in 1900 census. J.O. "John Orrin" was married to Margaret J McCrory of Jackson Co KS. They had a daughter who was born in 1923, died the same day. Margaret died two years later, both buried at Denison Cemetery.
Crawford Co KS.
CHARLES McCULLOUGH, proprietor of the Walnut Mills Railroad, agent and telegraph operator, was born in Ohio in 1840. At the age of thirteen he went to Iowa where he received a collegeate[sic] education. In 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, April 6, 1862, and suffered all the horrors of the Southern prison pens under the command of the notorious Wing, for six months and eleven days, and was then sent home on parole until exchanged. In the spring of 1863 re-enlisted as a veteran with the rank of Sergeant, and was promoted to First Lieutenant of Company C, Seventy-first United States Volunteers. He resigned in the fall of 1864, and returned to Iowa and engaged in the lumber business, remaining in that State until 1874, when he went into a telegraph office in Decatur, Ill., and remained seven months. In the fall of 1875, he came to Kansas, where he received an appointment as railroad agent on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, with headquarters at Hepler, Kan., holding the position until April, 1882; he then bought the vacated mill of H. C. Bruner, Walnut, and in connection with Mr. Hollister fitted it up with new machinery, including three run of French buhrs, and now does a large and flourishing business, shipping large quantities of flour and meal to various points in Texas as well as supplying the home demand. Mr. McCullough also owns McCullough's Addition to Hepler, comprising twenty acres platted and laid out; a farm near the town, and a fine residence in the city of Walnut. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was married in 1865 to Miss Elizabeth Parrish, of Michigan, who also received a collegiate education in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough have four children, Willie F., Sadie E., John O. and Nannie E.
http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/crawford/crawford-co-p15.html
Note: After this article was written, a daughter, Mary, was born to Charles and his wife, Mary. Charles and his 15 year old daughter were in Jackson Co KS in 1900 census. J.O. "John Orrin" was married to Margaret J McCrory of Jackson Co KS. They had a daughter who was born in 1923, died the same day. Margaret died two years later, both buried at Denison Cemetery.
CHARLES McCULLOUGH, proprietor of the Walnut Mills Railroad, agent and telegraph operator, was born in Ohio in 1840. At the age of thirteen he went to Iowa where he received a collegeate[sic] education. In 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, April 6, 1862, and suffered all the horrors of the Southern prison pens under the command of the notorious Wing, for six months and eleven days, and was then sent home on parole until exchanged. In the spring of 1863 re-enlisted as a veteran with the rank of Sergeant, and was promoted to First Lieutenant of Company C, Seventy-first United States Volunteers. He resigned in the fall of 1864, and returned to Iowa and engaged in the lumber business, remaining in that State until 1874, when he went into a telegraph office in Decatur, Ill., and remained seven months. In the fall of 1875, he came to Kansas, where he received an appointment as railroad agent on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, with headquarters at Hepler, Kan., holding the position until April, 1882; he then bought the vacated mill of H. C. Bruner, Walnut, and in connection with Mr. Hollister fitted it up with new machinery, including three run of French buhrs, and now does a large and flourishing business, shipping large quantities of flour and meal to various points in Texas as well as supplying the home demand. Mr. McCullough also owns McCullough's Addition to Hepler, comprising twenty acres platted and laid out; a farm near the town, and a fine residence in the city of Walnut. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was married in 1865 to Miss Elizabeth Parrish, of Michigan, who also received a collegiate education in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough have four children, Willie F., Sadie E., John O. and Nannie E.
http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/crawford/crawford-co-p15.html
Note: After this article was written, a daughter, Mary, was born to Charles and his wife, Mary. Charles and his 15 year old daughter were in Jackson Co KS in 1900 census. J.O. "John Orrin" was married to Margaret J McCrory of Jackson Co KS. They had a daughter who was born in 1923, died the same day. Margaret died two years later, both buried at Denison Cemetery.
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