Michael Simpson Culbertson and Mary Dunlap

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Husband Michael Simpson Culbertson ^{1 2}

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           Born: 18 Jan 1819 1 2
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           Died: 16 Aug or 25 Aug 1862 - Shanghai, China 1 2
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         Father: Joseph Culbertson (1779-1858) 2 3
         Mother: Frances Stewart (1785/1785-1867) 1 2

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       Marriage: 16 May 1844 4

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Wife Mary Dunlap ^{1 4}

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           Died: 30 Sep 1888 4
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Children

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1 F Laura Culbertson ¹

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2 F Helen Anna Culbertson ⁴

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           Born: 15 Jan 1847 4
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3 F Frances Cornelia Culbertson ⁴

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           Born: 25 Dec 1848 4
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           Died: 28 Mar 1877 4
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4 M Walter Lowrie Culbertson ⁴

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           Born: 1850 4
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           Died: 1852 4
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 F Mary Josephine Culbertson ⁴

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           Born: 4 May 1852 4
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           Died: Aft 1923
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 F Emma Barbara Culbertson ⁴

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           Born: 1854 4
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           Died: 1855 4
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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7 F Laura Culbertson ⁴

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           Born: 1857 4
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           Died: 1858 4
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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8 F Lilly Fitch Culbertson ⁴

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           Born: 1858 4
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           Died: 1860 4
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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9 F Alice Julia Culbertson ⁴

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           Born: 1859 4
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           Died: 1860 4
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Michael Simpson Culbertson

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"Entered Military Academy, at West Point; was appointed Second Lieut., First U. S. Artillery, July 1, 1839. Resigned April 15, 1841." (Army Register). Rev. A. Nevin says of him: "After resigning from Army, he entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton, New Jersey, and graduated from there in 1844. He was licensed at Carlisle, and ordained as a foreign missionary to China. Before sailing he married Miss Dunlap, of New York state. His career as a missionary was marked by extraordinary devotion and ability. In the midst of his labors, was taken with cholera and died after a short illness. Among his fellow students were Halleck, McDowell, Beauregard, all of whom afterwards wore the insignia of Major Generals. In the progress of his course, he was appointed drill officer with title of Captain, and served for a time as Professor of Mathematics. When two cadets were chosen to go to France, at the Government's expense to complete their education at the school that had produced Napoleon Bonaparte, Culbertson was the first selected; and obtained suffrages of all the electors.
At West Point he earned for himself the beatitude of peacemaker. Engaged to act as a second to the afterwards famous Magruder, in an affair of honor, he adjusted the difficulty and prevented a probably fatal encounter. He labored in connection with the late Dr. Bridgeman, for several years, with assiduity and perseverance, in preparing a revised translation of the Bible in the Chinese language, a labor of love which he regarded as the great work of his life, and it was a source of especial consolation to him, just before his departure, that God had enabled him to complete it. He also wrote a work entitled "Darkness in the Flowery Land."

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Dunlap

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from New York state

1 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 130.

2 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 268.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 53, 129.

4 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 272.