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Cullen, William – Cumming, William

Cullen, William

farmer, journalist, congressman, was born March 4, 1826, in Ireland. In 1846 he moved to Illinois, and was sheriff of La Salle county, and held other local offices. He became part owner and senior editor of the Ottawa Republican newspaper. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a republican.

Cullom, Alvan

lawyer, congressman, was born in Kentucky. He served frequently in the legislature of Tennessee; was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1845 to 1847; and was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861.

Cullom, William

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1851 to 1855.

CULLUM, GEORGE WASHINGTON, soldier, author, was born Feb. 25, 1809, in New York city. He is a brevet majorgeneral in the United States army; and the author of Military Bridges with India- Rubber Pontoons; Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the United States Military academy at West.

Point, 1802-90; and System of Military Bridges. He died Feb. 28, 1892, in New York city.

Culpepper, John

clergyman, congressman, was born in Anson county, N. C. He represented that state in congress from 1807 to 1808, when his seat was. vacated by resolution of the house. He was re-elected, and served from 1813 to 1817, from 1819 to 1821, and from 1823 to 1825. He was a baptist preacher; and was elected to the general assembly, but. his seat was vacated on constitutional grounds.

Culver, Charles Vernon

business man, congressman, was born Sept. 6, 1830, in Logan, Ohio. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-ninth congress.

Culver, Erastus D

congressman, was born in New York. He served in the assembly of New York in 1838 and 1841; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1845 to 1847.

Culwer, Daniel

pioneer, was born in 1793 in Maryland. He was the first American that went to upper California, and the first that built a house in San Francisco (on the same ground now occupied by the Palace hotel). He was also the founder of the town of Santa Barbara. He died in 1857 in California.

Culyer, John Yapp

civil engineer, was born May 18, 1839, in New York city.

He has acted in the capacity of associate engineer to the Albany parks, to the parks and the riverside improvement in Chicago, and to the state capitol grounds in Nashville.

Cumming, Alfred

governor, born about 1802. He served as governor of Utah. He died Oct. 9, 1873, in Augusta, Ga.

Cumming, Kate

author, was born in 1835 in Alabama. She is a resident of Mobile, prominent during the civil war as an organizer of field hospitals in the confederate army. She is the author of Hospital Life in Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the End of the War.

Cumming, Thomas W

congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a representative in congress from New York during 1853-1855.

Cumming, William

congressman.

He was a delegate from North Carolina to the continental congress in 1784.

CUMMINGS, A. B., naval officer, was born June 22, 1830, in Pennsylvania. He was a naval commander in the civil war, who died during the engagement of the batteries at Port Hudson. His self-forgetfulness after falling mortally wounded was nearly equal to that of the noted Sir Philip Sidney. He died March 14, 1863, at Port Hudson.