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Subject: [INDIANA] CULBERTSON, Lowry, Wingate, Campbell, Barnhardt, Spigler,
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:40:58 EDT

This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it
just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not
researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these
families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t know if there is any additional
mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this
book. I am typing the biographies from it.

Typed by Lora Radiches:



Surnames in this biography are: CULBERTSON, Lowry, Wingate, Campbell,
Barnhardt, Spigler,

CHARLES WINGATE CULBERTSON, now postmaster of the City of Brazil, is a native
of Indiana and has had a great deal of experience in public office,
particularly as a Federal employee. He was born in Putnam County, December 8, 1872. His
grandparents, James and Emma (Lowry) Culbertson, came to Indiana from
Pennsylvania and settled at Bedford, where his grandfather was a farmer and stock
raiser. Robert H. Culbertson, father of the Brazil postmaster, studied medicine
and during the Civil war was a surgeon in the Eightieth Indiana Regiment, with
the rank of major. He saw service in the Army of the Cumberland. After the war
he located at Bowling Green in Clay County and practiced medicine there until
1877, when he moved to Brazil. He possessed a thorough knowledge of medicine,
and his experience brought him to a position where he was regarded as one of
the ablest doctors in Central Indiana. He was still in active practice at the
time of his death, September 30, 1899. He is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in
Indianapolis. Dr. Robert H. Culbertson married Eliza Wingate, and Charles W.
was their only child. Mr. Culbertson was educated in the grade and high
schools, spent one year in Wabash College and in 1896 was graduated from Butler
University. It was his desire to follow the profession of his father, and with that
end in view he entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York
City. He gave up his studies to return home when his father died, and taking
charge of his father’s estate required several years. Eventually he abandoned his
intention to follow a professional career and has been occupied with business
and public duties. In 1921 he was appointed to a position in the internal
revenue service at Terre Haute, resigning to become postmaster of Brazil in 1925.
He has served as county chairman of the Republican party of Clay County and is
a man who readily gives his support to civic undertakings. He is a
thirty-second degree Knight Templar Mason and member of Murat Temple of the Shrine at
Indianapolis. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Christian Church,
the Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity, and B. P. 0. Elks No, 762, of Brazil. He
married, November 30, 1905, Miss Frances M. Campbell, daughter of Alexander C.
and Katherine (Barnhardt) Campbell. Her father came from Pennsylvania and for
many years was in the drug business at Brazil. The three children of Mr. and
Mrs. Culbertson are named Katherine, Mary and Alice. Katherine is the wife of
Dr. James F. Spigler, of Terre Haute. Mary is a graduate of Saint Mary of the
Woods with the class of 1931 and Alice is a student in the Gulf Park School for
Girls at Gulf port, Mississippi.

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