Capt. Howard Culbertson, M.D. and Louisa Maria Safford
Husband Capt. Howard Culbertson, M.D. 1
Born: 17 Feb 1828 1 Christened: Died: 18 Jun 1890 1 Buried:
Father: Rev. James Culbertson (1785-1847) 2 Mother: Eleanor Colhoun (1792-1853) 1
Marriage: 16 Nov 1854 3
Wife Louisa Maria Safford 3
Born: 24 Jun 1836 3 Christened: Died: 28 Feb 1885 3 Buried:
Father: Dr. Elial Safford ( - ) 3 Mother:
Children
1 M Herbert John Culbertson 3
Born: 23 Aug 1855 3 Christened: Died: 3 Jun 1897 3 Buried:Spouse: Clementina Culbertson ( -1910) 3
2 F Anne Virginia Culbertson 3
Born: 16 Nov 1857 3 Christened: Died: 6 Dec 1918 3 Buried:
3 M Ernest Howard Culbertson 4
Born: 30 Jun 1860 3 Christened: Died: Aug 1895 3 Buried:Spouse: [Unk] Gilmore ( - ) 3
4 M Sydney Mathiot Culbertson 3
Born: Nov 1864 3 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Edith McDaniels ( -1911) 5 Marr: 12 Jul 1893 5
5 M Dr. Lewis Rogers Culbertson 3
Born: 16 Jan 1867 3 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Blanche M. Adams (1876-1900) 5Spouse: Edith Sophia Popp (1888- ) 5 Marr: 3 Oct 1910 5
6 F Cornelia Swift Culbertson 3
Born: 25 Jun 1869 3 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Abraham Gordon-Winstanley ( - ) 5
7 M Claude Lanier Culbertson 3
Born: 19 Jan 1877 3 Christened: Died: 13 Dec 1918 3 Buried:Spouse: Mabel Virginia Cosgrave (1879- ) 5 Marr: 25 Sep 1901 5
General Notes: Husband - Capt. Howard Culbertson, M.D.
He was born and raised in Zanesville, Ohio, and received a common school education at Howe's Academy there. At the age of seventeen he went to Cincinnati and became a machinist-for which work he possessed great ability-having shown great mechanical genius as a boy, and when a youth built a steam engine, making all the parts himself. The work in the machine shop was too heavy for his slight frame, hence he soon gave up his trade and began the study of medicine under Dr. Little, of Zanesville, and took his first course of lectures at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati; his second course at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, graduating in 1850. He practiced in Zanesville until autumn of 1862. He was Acting Asst. Surgeon of 62d O. V. I. from Aug. 11 to Sept. 13, 1862, in camp at Zanesville; appointed Surgeon U. S. Vols., Nov. 7, 1862; appointed Asst. Surg. U. S. Regular Army, Feb. 28, 1866; appointed Capt. and Asst. Surg., July 8, 1866. Brevet Rank Lieut.-Col., U. S. Vol. Oct. 6, 1865, "for faithful and meritorious services." Actual rank in Vols. was Major. Honorably mentioned a number of times in the Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion.
Services:-Served as Acting Asst. Surg. at camp near Zanesville in '62; in charge of hospitals at Rolla, Mo., Nov. '63; in charge of Harvey U. S. Gen. Hospital at Madison, Wis., to Oct. 1, '65; Act. Asst. Surg. Camp Butler, Ills., from Nov. 14, '65 to Dec. 25, '65; and at Louisville, Ky., to May 27, '66; post hospital, Louisville, Ky., to July, '66; with 2d U. S. Infantry at Taylor Barracks, Louisville, Ky., to Oct., '66; ordered to Memphis, then to Louisville, to attend cholera patients; on sick leave May to Aug., '68, with congestive fever and retired because of disability caused by the fever.
He then removed to Zanesville, where he devoted himself to general practice, and soon after took up diseases of the eye and ear as his specialty, to which he devoted himself until his death. His skill as a surgeon is shown in the Surgical History of the Rebellion. He wrote a work entitled, "Excision of the Larger Joints of the Extremities," which was considered the authority on the subject today. It was the prize essay of the American Medical Association in 1876. The great Prof. Louis Sayre, M. D. of New York, in presenting him to the Society, said: "Gentlemen, I have the honor to present to you, a man who has accomplished a task which no other man in the United States would have had the courage to undertake and patience to finish." The work was tabular, chiefly, and required in its preparation an immense correspondence with surgeons of every nation. He was looked up to by oculists all over the United States, and was regarded by them as one of the best. To show how highly they esteemed him:-A gentleman who had procured glasses of him afterward consulted the great oculist, Dr. D. B. Roosa, of New York, regarding his eyes. Roosa asked him who had given him glasses. The gentleman told him and in reply Dr. Roosa said: "If you got them of Dr. Culbertson, it will be unnecessary for me to examine your eyes." Similar illustrations might be given of praise to him by other great eastern oculists. He numbered among his personal friends such oculists as Roosa, Chisholm, Stevens, Agnew, Thomson, Wordsworth, Alt, Green, Hotz, etc., etc. and among surgeons, such men as Sayre, Gross, Ashurst, Bartholow, Hamilton, etc.
He was a contributor to a number of medical journals, and one of the Asst. Editors of the American Journal of Ophthalmology. Was the inventor of a number of delicate eye operating instruments; also of the Prisoptometer, an instrument for examining the eyes for glasses; also, a meerschaum probe for bullets. Was examining surgeon on the Pension Board, at Zanesville, for twenty-two years. One of the Medical Referees of the Pension Dept. said "With but one exception, he was the best pension surgeon in the United States." He was the best posted physician in Forensic Medicine that Zanesville had ever had. Was a member of the American Med. Association; American Ophthalmological Society; Ohio State Med. Association, etc., etc. Was a Deacon in the Second Presbyterian church at Zanesville, for many years.
1 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 142.
2 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 139.
3 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 147.
4 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 147, 152.
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Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 152.
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