Husband Dr. Samuel Duncan Culbertson 1 2 3 4
Born: 21 Feb or 26 Feb 1786 - Culbertson's Row, Franklin Co, PA 4 5 6
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Died: 25 Aug 1865 - Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA 4 6 7
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Father: Col. Robert Culbertson (1755-1801/1801) 8 9
Mother: Ann "Annie" Duncan (1755-1827/1827) 4 8
Marriage: 19 Mar 1809 10
Wife Nancy Purviance 11 12
Born: 1786 10 12
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Died: 1 Jan 1850 10
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Father: Samuel Purviance ( - ) 10
Mother: Nancy [Unk] ( - ) 10
Children
1 M Dr. Edmund Culbertson, M.D. 11 12 13
Born: 12 Jan 1812 - Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA 12 13 14
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Died: 4 Mar 1883 12 14 15
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Spouse: Ellen H. Kennedy (1822- ) 11 15 16
Marr: 4 May or 14 May 1844 11 16
2 F Elizabeth A. Culbertson 10 12 17
Born: 9 Jan 1814 12 18
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Died: 6 Apr 1891 12 18
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Spouse: Elihu Dinwiddie Reid (1807-1880) 10 19 20
Marr: 2 Dec 1834 18
3 M Albert Culbertson 1 10 12
Born: 1818 or 1822 1 12
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Died: 16 Jul 1878 - Monongahela City, Washington Co, PA 10 12
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Spouse: Emma Brown ( -Aft 1889) 10
4 M Augustus H. Culbertson 10 12
Born: 1822 10
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Died: 23 Jan 1839 10 12
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5 M Ferdinand L. Culbertson 10 12
Born: 30 Apr 1823 - Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA 10 12
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Died: 7 May 1863 - Peoria, Peoria Co, IL 10 12
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Spouse: Lavinia Culbertson ( - ) 16 21
Marr: 5 May 1852 10
6 M John Purviance Culbertson 10 12
Born: 26 Aug 1827 10 12
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Died: 23 Aug or 23 Oct 1900 10 12
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Spouse: Mary Belle Watson ( - ) 10 16
Spouse: Bird Sturgeon ( - ) 10 16
Spouse: Julia Wunderlich (1849-1913) 10
General Notes: Husband - Dr. Samuel Duncan Culbertson
He received a classical education at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He studied medicine with Dr. Thomas Walmsley, at Chambersburg, going with his preceptor to Hagerstown. After Dr. Walmsley's death he completed his studies at Hagerstown with Dr. Young, attending a course of lectures in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. He began to practice in Chambersburg in 1810. He became an eminent physician, and had the degree of M. D. conferred upon him by the University. During the war with England in 1812, true to his ancestry, he shared in the struggle. With a band of volunteers, he left Chambersburg, Sept. 5, 1812 and marched to Buffalo, where they stayed until January, 1813. He held the position of First Lieutenant until they reached Meadville, when they were incorporated with the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment, and he was made surgeon, in which capacity he served until they were mustered out. In 1814, when the British threatened Baltimore, a company being rapidly raised, he was chosen captain, and marched hurriedly, with some eighteen hundred men of Franklin County, to the endangered city. There he was once more elevated to the surgeoncy of the brigade. In 1815 he relinquished his practice temporarily to engage in business in Philadelphia, but he soon returned and resumed his practice and kept a drug store in partnership with Dr. Jacob Snyder. After Dr. Snyder removed from Chambersburg he associated Dr. Bain with him in his practice, and the firm subsequently became Culbertson, Bain & Lane. He relinquished his practice to his partners, in 1831, to engage in the manufacture of straw boards at the famous "Mammoth" paper mill in Chambersburg. In 1843 he admitted his son Edmund into partnership, and several years later relinquished the business entirely to his sons, Edmund and John P. Culbertson. He was connected with the Franklin Railroad during its construction, and was president from 1839-41. He was also president of the Bank of Chambersburg for several years.
It was Dr. Culbertson's professional career that made him eminent. In surgery he was very expert and daring; as an obstetrician he especially excelled. He was not unknown as a medical writer, and a communication of his opinion upon a vexed question of Physiology attracted the attention and hearty commendation of the celebrated Professor Chapman. The style of his compositions was admirable, strong, chaste, and easy. In his intercourse with his medical brethren, he was respectful and courteous, observing professional ethics with strict fidelity, and deporting himself with a delicacy that became proverbial.
His death was caused by exposure after the burning of his residence at the time Chambersburg was destroyed by the confederates.