Frederick McCullough (1853)

Born 18 Feb 1853 in Edgeworth, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

From Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania:

Frederick McCullough, son of Alexander (2) and Sarah (Merriman) McCullough, was born at Edgeworth, below Little Sewickley, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1853. He acquired his education in Sewickley Valley, and has had a varied and interesting business career. At the usual age for such a proceeding he was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade, a calling he followed for a period of twenty-five years. Five years were then spent in the grocery business in Sewickley, and twelve years in the same line of business at Edgeworth, after which he retired from business affairs for a time. Being of an energetic nature, a life of idleness was not an unmixed pleasure for him. and accordingly, in February, 1909, he established a chicken farm, which has proved a very successful as well as interesting enterprise. He makes a specialty of raising poultry of particularly fine breeds, and he finds a ready market for all he can raise. He takes an active and beneficial interest in all that concerns the welfare of the community, giving his political support to the Republican party, and served as a member of the first common council of Edgeworth. His religious affiliation is with the Baptist Church, and he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. McCullough married ( first) March 2, 1876, Mary Ann Morgan, and had children: Charles, Alexander, Clara, Sarah; he married (second) September 1, 1892, Mary Ann Alexander, born in Ireland, and had a child : William F., who is in the employ of the Fort Wayne Railroad Company.

Sources

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol. 1, p. 395-396)