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Mccullough, Joseph Allen

lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 9, 1865, in Greenville county, S. C. He is the son of the late Rev. A. C. Stepp, and when an infant was adopted by the late Colonel James McCullough, who had his name changed by an act of the legislature. In 1887 he graduated in both academic and law departments from the South Carolina college, with the degrees of A. B. and LL.

B. He soon acquired prominence as a lawyer; has been engaged in some of the most important civil and criminal cases in the south; and was corporation counsel of Greenville for six years. In 1896 he was elected a member of the South Carolina state legislature, and is a valuable member of that body. MCCULLUM, W., poet. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Mémory Gems.