Patrick Cullen and Cecilia Fennell

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Husband Patrick Cullen ¹

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           Born:  - County Clare, Ireland
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         Father: George Cullen (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Ann McMahan (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage:  - Blossburg, Tioga Co, PA

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Wife Cecilia Fennell ¹

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           Born:  - County Clare, Ireland
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Children

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1 F Mary Cullen ²

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           Born: 
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Margaret Cullen ²

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           Born: 
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           Died: when thirteen years old
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 M Thomas Cullen ²

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         Spouse: Emma Schuyler (      -      ) 2

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4 F Elizabeth Cullen ¹

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           Born:  - Oconto, Oconto Co, WI
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           Died: 2 Apr 1912 - New Bethlehem, Clarion Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: John Tassey (      -Aft 1914) 2

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5 F Catherine Cullen ²

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           Died: Aft 1914
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         Spouse: William Freeman (      -Bef 1914) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Patrick Cullen

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He appears to have been a favorite of his father, nevertheless he went against his father's wishes in marrying the lovely daughter of his steward, Cecilia Fennell, a native of County Clare. They had been sweethearts from youth, and he could not be dissuaded. She was sent to America with her sister, Mrs. Lucius Cushing, and Pat­rick Cullen joined them in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, soon afterward marrying the girl of his choice. Mr. Cullen in­herited the strong intellectual qualities for which his family were noted. He had marked business ability, and appears to have had a thorough knowledge of forestry, which he evi­dently found of practical value, for he engaged very extensively and successfully in lumbering. He was associated with the Balcom & White Lumber Company, of Corning, New York, and in that connection moved to Oconto, Wisconsin. Hav­ing decided to go to California in 1860, he converted the major part of his holdings into cash, leaving property and boats at Corning, New York, and the home and boats at Oconto, Wisconsin. He was persuaded by his partners, among whom were Balcom, White, Steve Haight and McGraw, to go to New Orleans instead, and taking the cash and all his papers proceeded to that city after bidding an affec­tionate adieu to his wife and family, by whom he was greatly beloved. They never saw him again. A letter to his wife, supposedly from a hotel clerk in New Orleans, stated that her husband had died of yellow fever, and had been buried in a vault (it was customary at New Orleans to place bodies in vaults or mau­soleums above ground, for the reason that graves were likely to be submerged). This was in October, 1860, and it was the last definite news of Patrick Cullen received by his family; but it is a strange fact that Mrs. Cullen received money anonymously from time to time, in sums of one hundred dollars and more on several occasions-apparently conscience money, for the cash and papers Mr. Cullen was known to have with him were never restored to his family. The situation at New Orleans, owing to the troublous times before the Civil war, prevented Mrs. Cullen from making a personal investigation. It has been stated that other men engaged in the lumber business, sending logs from Illinois, Indiana, etc., to New Orleans, were never heard from after going to that city with money, but what particular form of villainy chose him for its victim never became known. The celebrated Rev. Dr. Gray, of New York, a Presbyterian minister, for whom one of the company's boats was named, told Mrs. Cul­len after her husband's disappearance that by right she was the real owner of the best part of Corning, New York. She never recovered from her grief over the loss of her husband, and devoted her remaining years to her family, dy­ing at the age of seventy-three years, at Ar­nold, Pennsylvania. She was a woman of superior char­acter, universally beloved and respected. [HAC 1914, 366]

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 365.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 366.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 367.