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Mcculloh, James Haines

surgeon, banker, author, was born about 1793 in Maryland. He became curator of the Maryland Academy of Science, and vicepresident of the Baltimore apprentices' library in 1822. He published Researches on America, being an Attempt to settle some Points relative to the Aborigines of America; and Researches, Philosophical and Antiquarian, concerning the Aboriginal History of America. McCULLOUGH, HIRAM, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 20, 1813, in Cecil county, Md. He was elected to the Maryland senate in 1845; and reelected. He was elected a representative from Maryland to the thirty-ninth congress; and re-elected to the fortieth congress. McCULLOUGH, JOHN GRIFFITH, lawyer, financier, was born Sept. 16, 1835, near Newark, Del. In 1861 he was elected to the legislature, and in 1862 they sent him to the state senate, while in 1863, at the age of twentyeight, he was elected attorney-general of the state, a most flattering exhibition of the public admiration of his talents and manliness. For four years he served the state in the trying position of attorney-general. In 1873 he became vice-president and general manager of the Panama railroad, retaining that position until 1883, when he was elected president of the corporation. In 1890 the stockholders of the Chicago and Erie railroad elected him president of that company, and he is also now president of the Bennington and Rutland railroad and the First National Bank of North Bennington.