McCULLA, B. B. - 1914

MCCULLA, HINDS, BAILEY

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HISTORY OF
Cherokee County
IOWA
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
by Thomas McCulla

B. B. McCULLA.

A young man of unusual business ability and enterprise, B. B. McCulla has made for himself an enviable place in agricultural circles of Cherokee county, operating eighty acres of valuable land which he owns in connection with one hundred and sixty acres which he rents. He follows always the most practical and modern methods in the conduct of his farming interests and his success places him among the men of influence and importance in this locality. He was born in Spring township in 1880 and is a son of L. J. and Mary McCulla, the former born in Montreal, Canada, in 1842, and the latter in New York. The father is a veteran of the Civil war and one of the most prosperous and substantial farmers of Cherokee county. A more extended mention of his career will be found elsewhere in this work.

B. B. McCulla acquired his education in the public schools of Cherokee county and in business college in Iowa City. When he was twentyfour years of age he began farming independently in Spring township, renting a tract of land upon which he resided until 1911. In that year he purchased eighty acres and this he operates in connection with one hundred and sixty acres of rented land. In addition to general farming he engages also in stock-raising, feeding all of the grain raised on his farm to his fine herds of cattle. He is a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator Company of Larrabee and Sutherland and is a man of recognized business ability and enterprise.

In 1904, Mr. McCulla married Miss Jennie Hinds, who was born in Decatur, Nebraska, in 1879, a daughter of Byron and Emma (Bailey) Hinds, natives of Shabbona Grove, Illinois. Mr. McCulla is connected fraternally with Larrabee lodge, No. 720,1. O. O. F., and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He stands high in both a business and a social sense and well deserves mention as one of the representative agriculturists of Cherokee county.