Alexander Culbertson and Amanda Giffen
Husband Alexander Culbertson 1 2 3 4
Born: 1819 - Westmoreland Co, PA 4 Christened: Died: 21 Mar 1871 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 3 4 Buried:
Father: Alexander Culbertson (1788-1852) 3 4 Mother: Livinia Sloan ( - ) 4
Marriage:
Wife Amanda Giffen 2 3
AKA: Amanda Giffin 5 Born: 7 Jan 1826 - Westmoreland Co, PA 2 Christened: Died: Aft 1893 Buried:
Father: John Giffen (1774-1854) 2 6 Mother: Jean Robison (1785- ) 2 6
Children
1 M Edward Culbertson 5 7 8
Born: 8 Jun 1845 - Westmoreland Co, PA 5 8 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Cinda Newman ( -1899) 8 Marr: Somerset Co, PA
2 F Evaline Culbertson 5
Born: 10 Jul 1847 5 Christened: Died: 22 May 1851 5 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
3 F Lavinia Culbertson 5
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: [Unk] Hershey ( - ) 9
4 F Mary Culbertson 10 11
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Prussia M. Hill ( -Aft 1915) 10 11
5 M Giffin Culbertson 10
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Margaret Hope ( - ) 9
6 M Dr. George Culbertson 10 12
Born: 30 May 1859 - near Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 Christened: Died: - Emporia, Lyon Co, KS Buried:Spouse: Sarah Jane "Jennie" Smith (1859- ) 9 13 Marr: Jun 1883 7
7 F Ella Culbertson 10
Born: Abt 1867 Christened: Died: 24 Mar 1871 10 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
8 M Dr. Alexander J. Culbertson, D.D.S. 10 14 15
Born: - Westmoreland Co, PA Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Etta M. Ruple ( - ) 15 16 Marr: Jun 1891 3
9 M William Culbertson 10
Born: Christened: Died: in infancy Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
General Notes: Husband - Alexander Culbertson
He was reared on a farm, where he was inured to hard labor and became well trained in the management of farming. His education was necessarily limited, as the schools of his time only furnished an elementary but practical course of instruction. Leaving school to engage in farming, he still kept up his study of mathematics and in a short time he commenced to learn surveying, in which he made rapid progress and soon became an efficient surveyor. He was afterwards employed by the United States Government to make surveys in the then territory of Minnesota. Accompanied by his brother, he rode down the Ohio river in a rough canoe and ascended the "Father of Waters" to his appointed field of operations in the same rude craft. On the Minnesotian plains and prairies, he spent two years in making Government surveys. Mr. Culbertson, while engaged in western surveying, never neglected his landed interests in his native county. Returning home, he engaged in farming and general business, whereby he accumulated considerable property. He was the first man who drilled for salt water at Pleasant Unity. He was a lifelong member as well as an earnest advocate of the principles of the Republican party, and was a ruling elder for many years of Unity Presbyterian church which was founded March 1, 1774. During the Civil War he was among the most active engaged in recruiting troops for the Union service, in which his oldest son Edward served as a private.
Alexander Culbertson, Jr., was educated for the ministry. When a young man, in 1840, he made a trip to the Falls of St. Anthony, Wis. [Minnesota], for his health. Made a trip by boat and kept a journal of his travels. This journal is very interesting. I have read other letters written by him, which show that he was a man of great intellect and of a poetical temperament.
General Notes: Wife - Amanda Giffen
from Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA
1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 74.
2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 383.
3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 893.
4 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 303.
5 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 304.
6 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 43.
7 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 75.
8 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 927.
9 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 306.
10 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 305.
11 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 40.
12 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 74, 515.
13 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 75, 515.
14 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 21, 893.
15 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 890, 1013.
16
—, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 21.
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