Culberson, David B
was born Sept. 29, 1830, in Troupe county, Ga. He was elected to the Texas legislature in 1859. He entered the confederate army in 1862 as a private, and rose to be an adjutant-general, with the rank of colonel. In 1864 he was elected to the legislature of Texas, and subsequently to the state senate. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Texas to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyfifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, fortyeighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat. CULBERTSON, KENNEDY RUSSELL, soldier, iron manufacturer, was born May 12, 1840, in Knightstown, Ind. He is one of the owners of the Cherokee iron works in Alabama; is one of the most skillful and successful iron men in the country; and has been largely concerned, with his brother and others, in bringing about many valuable changes in iron manufacture.
CULBERTSON, MATTHEW SIMPSON, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 18, 1818, in Chambersburg, Pa. He was a presbyterian missionary to China; and is the author of Darkness in the Flowery Kingdom, or Religious Notions in North China. He died in August, 1862, in China.