William Henry McCulloch 1844-1934

MCCULLOCH, ALLEN, ROWE, LANE, BALLARD, ASHING, TURNER, ROBINSON

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Date: 5/11/2018 at 18:15:58

December 15, 1844 ---- September 27, 1934

Last Services held for Hon. W. H. McCulloch

Funeral services for Hon. W. H. McCulloch, who died Thursday evening was held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the home, 1235 West street. Rev. W. B. Wilson of Newburg and Rev. Robert Inglis of Grinnell had charge of the service. Internment was in Hazelwood and the pallbearers were five grandsons and one great grandson. George and Carroll Lane, Harold and James McCulloch, Ralph Ballard and Floyd Ashing.

William Henry McCulloch was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts on Dec. 15, 1844. He died at his home in Grinnell, Iowa, on Sept. 27, 1934, aged 89 years, 9 months and 12 days. His father was the elder William McCulloch who, with three brothers preached the second coming of Christ for many years in Illinois and southern Iowa.

In 1855, the family moved from Massachusetts to Illinois and later the father journeyed into Iowa and bought land, but returned to Illinois to make his home. Mr. McCulloch was the eldest of the family of three children. His brother and sister have preceded him in death. Miss Ellen Samantha Allen and he were married on March 2, 1867 in Lee county, Illinois. In the fall of 1869, he came to his farm in Hickory Grove township, Jasper County, built a small house and a few other buildings on the bare prairie and returned to bring his wife and two children to their new home. A part of this farm was what his father had located when he made his trip to Iowa from Illinois. In Hickory Grove he was one of the first township officers and was instrumental in the building of the first school houses in the township. He was a vigorous worker with the Temperance forces and served Jasper county in the state legislature during the stirring prohibition fight in the early eighties, being one of the fifty-two representatives who voted for prohibition. He was always wishing to help with the betterment of of the community, organizing a Lyceum at the old Center school house and helping the young people to a better social life. He was a member of the Adventist Church at the old home in Illinois and was a charter member of the Christian Union, the forerunner of the present Congregational church in Newburg. A progressive farmer, he was among the first to use new types of machinery as they were developed, among them the steel tower windmill , hay slings, and various types of the self binder.

In November, 1904, he and his wife moved to Grinnell, where he has resided continuously since. In Grinnell, he has served on the City Council and has always been recognized as a worker in the cause of right. In 1927, Mr. And Mrs. McCulloch celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary when they were congratulated by a host of friends and relatives. Mrs. McCulloch passed away on January 6, 1930.

He leaves two daughters, Mrs. M. H. Rowe of Grinnell and Mrs. George W. Lane of Newburg; two sons, J. W. McCulloch of Kanawha; and W. H. McCulloch of Newburg; eleven grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.

Those present from out of Iowa were: Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McCulloch of Kanawha; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Turner of Red Oak; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ballard of Redwood Falls, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Robinson and daughter, Maxine, of Algona; Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Ashing of Des Moines, and Carroll Lane of Carroll, Iowa.

Grinnell Herald - Grinnell, Iowa
October 2, 1934