James Coe Culbertson, M.D. and Sarah Pogue

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Husband James Coe Culbertson, M.D. ¹

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           Born: 19 Dec 1840 - Miami Co, OH 1
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           Died: 4 Jun 1908 - Cincinnati, OH 1
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         Father: William Culbertson (1806-1872) 2
         Mother: Mary Ann Coe (      -Aft 1893) 1

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       Marriage: 10 Apr 1873 3

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   Other Spouse: Virginia Clark (      -Bef 1873) 3 - 1865 3

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   Other Spouse: Sophia Braun (      -      ) 3 - 1888 4

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Wife Sarah Pogue ³

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Children

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1 M Henry Coe Culbertson ³

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           Born: 11 Jul 1874 - Cincinnati, OH 3
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         Spouse: Mabel D. Freeman (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 14 Mar 1900 5

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2 M James Clark Culbertson ³

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 F Margaret Elizabeth Culbertson ³

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         Spouse: John E. Wheeler (      -      ) 6
           Marr: 5 Jun 1907 6

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General Notes: Husband - James Coe Culbertson, M.D.

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When Fort Sumter was fired upon on April 12, 1861, there was a prompt response to the call to arms from thousands of young men, who were then students in various literary, technical and medical schools of the country. Professional careers were thrown aside and ignored in the feeling of patriotism which filled the hearts of these young men. Dr. James Coe Culbertson was one of those patriotic young men. When the war broke out, he was a medical student in Cincinnati, Ohio, but he enlisted as a private in Co. D., 5th O. V. I. April 19, 1861. Soon after his regiment entered West Virginia he was detailed to act as Assistant Surgeon by Col. Dunning. He served in that capacity until Nov., 1861, when he was ordered to Romney, Virginia, Dec. 5th to Wheeling, West Virginia, to act as Hospital Steward, April, 1862, to Cumberland, Maryland, and placed in charge of medical stores at that point. September 13, 1862, mustered in as Hospital Steward, U. S. A. In October, 1862, was ordered to Washington for duty in Emory General Hospital. He remained there until October, 1863, when he was ordered to the Marine, Hospital, Cincinnati. In February, 1864, he was discharged on certificate of disability, resulting from an attack of typhoid fever. In May, 1864, he was commissioned Assistant Surgeon 137 O. V. I. with which command he served in charge of Post Hospital at Fort McHenry until mustered out, on expiration of term of service of the regiment.
In autumn of 1865, Dr. Culbertson passed a competitive examination and was admitted as an Assistant in Bellevue Hospital, New York. While there he attended lectures in Bellevue Hospital Medical College and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in March, 1865. [sic] In the fall of the same year he began the practice of medicine in Cincinnati. During his long and useful career in that city, he was better known as an editor than as a practitioner. In 1873 he purchased the Lancet and Observer, a monthly journal owned by Dr. E. B. Stevens. In 1878 he purchased the Clinic, a young weekly medical journal, founded by Dr. J. T. Whittaker. The merger of the two journals was called the Lancet and Clinic. As editor he achieved marked success. It was his ambition to publish a weekly medical journal, and his opportunity had come. Under his care the Lancet and Clinic grew in strength and influence, and became a financial as well as literary success. His editorials were strong and vigorous, but characterized by a spirit of fairness on disputed questions. He had broad views of the function of a medical journal, and advocated measures to improve the health as well as the morals of the community. As a member of the Board of Education, he was particularly interested in the education of the children who lived in the densely settled portions of the city. His efforts for better education were not limited to the public schools. The University of Cincinnati owes him a debt of gratitude for his work in its behalf. It could not expand, located as it was on the side hill on McMicken Avenue; it needed room. In May, 1889, Dr. Culbertson, then a member of the Council introduced an ordinance for the occupancy of sixty acres of Burnett Woods for University purposes. He advocated the passage with great vigor and wrote numerous editorials in its behalf. The ordinance passed in September of the same year. In 1891 he was called to Chicago to edit the Journal of the American Medical Association, a position which he held for about two years. From 1893 until it closed its doors, he was Professor of the Principals and Practice of Medicine in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery.
In appreciation of his literary work, the American Social Science Association elected him a member, an honor which he highly prized. All in all Dr. Culbertson lived a very useful and successful life, a good soldier, a good citizen, a devoted member and Elder of the Presbyterian Church.
(From In Memoriam by Drs. S. C. Ayres, C. L. Bonifield and Byron Stanton, committee of Commandery Military, Order of the Loyal Legion of the U. S.)

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General Notes: Wife - Sarah Pogue

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She was the daughter of a wealthy merchant of Cincinnati, Ohio.

1 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 219.

2 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 217.

3 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 221.

4 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 222.

5 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 227.

6 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 223.