Mr McCullough

MCCOLLOUGH, MORGAN, HARRISON, MCDOWELL, WILSON, FIELD, ROTHAKER, SKIFF, SHAW, OWEN, DALTON, HUSTED

Posted By: Deb Barker (email)
Date: 12/12/2006 at 19:10:22

Nebraska, The Land and the People, Vol. 3

Mr. McCullough was born at Kirkville, Wapello County, Iowa, September 26, 1861. His great-grandfather was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where the Scotch-Irish McCulloughs settled when they came to America early in the seventeenth century. When he was an infant his parents moved to North Carolina, and in the Revolution he served under Washington five years and six months. He was wounded by a bayonet thrust at the battle of River Reason and again at the storming of Stony Point, was also wounded in the second siege of Charleston. After the war he moved to Kentucky. His son John was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, and married Sarah Morgan, daughter of Col. Ralph Morgan, and granddaughter of Sir William Morgan, of Sheperdstown, Virginia. John McCullough was a soldier under Gen. William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812, and of his fourteen children the sixth was Samuel Clinton McCullough.
Samuel Clinton McCullough was born at Morgan Station, Kentucky, June 9, 1816, studied medicine under Joseph N. McDowell, of the Medical School of the University of Missouri, and practiced his profession from 1840 until his death in 1895. He was in Indiana until 1856, when he moved to Iowa and was a co-founder of the Wapello County Medical Society and the Des Moines Valley Medical Association. He was one of the first to develop the coal fields of Southeastern Iowa, and also had interests in the timber resources of Southeastern Missouri. He was a Whig in early life and a Democrat after 1856. His death occurred at Ottumwa, June 22, 1895. [p.5] Samuel Clinton McCullough married Abigail Anne Wilson, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Joseph Wilson moved from Scotland to Ireland and was one of the defenders of Londonderry in 1689. His son Joseph settled in Pennsylvania in 1735, was a soldier of the Revolution, was taken prisoner by the Hessians at Trenton, and was murdered while a prisoner, January 2, 1777. Allen Wilson, grandson of this Revolutionary patriot, was born in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, in 1806, and his daughter was Abigail Anne Wilson, who was born October 30, 1833, and in early life was a teacher in Illinois and Iowa. She was married January 1, 1861, to Samuel Clinton McCullough, at Kirkville, Iowa. She died at Seattle, Washington, December 18, 1908.
Theodore Wilson McCullough attended school at Ottumwa, learned the trade of printer, was also a locomotive fireman with the Burlington Railway in 1878-81. In 1883 he became a reporter on the Denver Republican, then being conducted by Eugene Field, O. H. Rothaker and Fred Skiff. He was a reporter and city editor of the Ottumwa Democrat in 1885, reporter on the Rapid City Daily Journal of South Dakota from 1885 to 1888, and nearly forty years ago first became identified with Omaha newspapers as reporter and city editor of the Herald. He was night editor of the Omaha World-Herald in 1889-90, night editor of the Omaha Bee, 1891-97, city editor of the Bee, 1897-98, city editor of the Denver Times in 1899, and reporter on the Denver Post in 1900. In 1901 he began what has been an uninterrupted service with the Omaha Bee, serving as assistant managing editor until 1905, managing editor, 1906-17, associate editor, 1918-20, and since then as chief editorial writer.
His special interest in conservation is indicated by his membership in the Nebraska State Forestry Association, of which he is president, the Nebraska State Park Board, Fontenelle Forest Association, American Forestry Association. He has been a Republican since 1896, is a member of the American Academy of Social and Political Science, member of the Survey Associates, was on the Excess Profits Tax Board at Washington in 1917-18, serving without pay. He is a member of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce and in early life was in the National Guard of Iowa, New Mexico, Colorado and Nebraska, with the final rank of lieutenant colonel. Colonel McCullough has had many honors and official relations with Masonry, having attained the supreme honorary thirty-third degree in Scottish Rite. He has been a member since its founding of the Scottish Rite Welfare Association, which handles a students' revolving loan fund of $75,000. He was chairman of the committee that established the Masonic Home for Children at Omaha, and member of the committee that built the Scottish Rite Foundation Home for Working Girls, managed by the Young Woman's Christian Association. He was identified with three committees in war relief work.
Mr. McCullough married at Galesburg, Illinois, September 26, 1888, Alice May Shaw, who was reared and educated at Galesburg and was a teacher in early life. Her father, William Shaw, was a sergeant in an Illinois infantry regiment during the Civil war, and was wounded at the battle of Stone River. Her mother was Sarah Gossett, of Huguenot ancestry. Colonel and Mrs. McCullough had three children. The daughter Alice, born September 7, 1889, is a graduate of the University of Nebraska and member of the honorary scholastic fraternity Phi Beta Kappa, and for a time taught mathematics and languages in high school. She is the wife of Hubert Keyes Owen, a department head of the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company at Omaha, and they have a family of two daughters and one son.
Roger Shaw McCullough, born at Omaha October 19, 1891, was also educated at the University of Nebraska, and since July, 1917, has been a captain in the Aviation Corps, United States Army. He married Rosemarie Dalton, of Peoria, Illinois, and has two sons, Theodore John and Roger Dalton.
Phillip Morgan McCullough, born at Omaha October 31, 1893 had the high school and university advantages of his brother and sister, is an electrical engineer by profession, was captain in the signal corps during 1917-19, and spent twenty-seven months in France, from Chateau Thierry to Argonne. He left the army to enter the service of the Northwest Bell Telephone Company, was outside plant engineer 1920-26, in 1926 became chief engineer of the Mexican Telegraph & Telephone Company with headquarters at Mexico City, and since March, 1928, has been vice president and general manager. He married Mary E. Husted, of Aurora, Nebraska, and has two daughters.