Taken from "Jefferson County, Pennsylvania - Her Pioneers and People," Vol. II, by Dr. William James McKnight, published in 1917 by J.H. Beers & Company, Chicago, page 285.
ARCHIBALD McCULLOUGH is one of the venerable and highly honored pioneer citizens of Jefferson county and one of the few remaining representatives of the first generation of the substantial Scotch-Irish families that settled in the Beechwoods district of the county in the early days, when this section of Pennsylvania was little more than an untrammeled forest wilderness. Mr. McCullough has been one of the vigorous and industrious pioneers who were leaders in social and industrial development and progress in Jefferson county, his early experiences touching all the phases of pioneer life. His sterling elements of character have ever held the unqualified confidence and goodwill of his fellow men. No other citizen of the Beechwoods has here resided for so long a period as this venerable pioneer, and Washington township delights to do him honor as a veritable patriarch.
Mr. McCullough was born in County Down, Ireland, April 4, 1829, and thus the spring of 1917 marks his attainment of the venerable age of eighty-eight years. Save that he suffers from arterio-sclerosis he is still vigorous physically and, as he himself has stated, he could still do a good day's work were it not for this minor physical ailment. His mental faculties are unimpaired by the lapse of years, and his reminiscences of the pioneer days are most graphic and interesting. He was a child at the time the family home was established in the Beechwoods, and here he has remained during the long intervening period, more than fourscore years. Mr. McCullough was two years old when his parents set forth from Ireland to establish a new home in America. The sailing vessel on which the family crossed the Atlantic was destined for Philadelphia, but after a long and tempestuous voyage was unable to proceed up the river to that port on account of the river being frozen over, and thus the passengers disembarked at the port of New York City. The father, William B. McCullough, had been a farmer and manufacturer of linen in Ireland, and after he had come with his family to Philadelphia, in 1831, he there found employment as a weaver until the following spring, when he brought his family to Jefferson county, making the overland trip with teams and wagons.
In the Beechwoods he purchased from the venerable Judge Heath a tract of five hundred acres. His three nearest neighbors to the east were twenty miles distant, to the north seven miles, and to the south three miles. This sturdy pioneer made a clearing on which he erected his little log house of one room, and in this primitive domicile, with its puncheon floor and wide fireplace, the family home was established. Here also peace and happiness found abiding place, though the family necessarily endured a full share of the hardships and privations incidental to pioneer life. In Ireland they had been in good financial circumstances, and after William B. McCullough arrived in America he received information that in his native
land there had been left to him an appreciable sum of money. He finally decided to make the return voyage to Ireland for the purpose of securing this inheritance, and he proceeded to Philadelphia on foot, traversing the long distance at the rate of fifty miles a day. He then sailed for Ireland, obtained his inheritance, and after a short visit returned to the new home in the United States. With indefatigable industry he continued the work of clearing his land, and in this herculean task his sons gave him effective aid, each of the sons eventually becoming the owner of a portion of the large landed estate, Archibald receiving the center, or homestead, farm.
William B. McCullough was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1800, and his death occurred at his home in the Beechwoods in the year 1876. His widow, whose maiden name was Mary Moffett, likewise, was a native of County Down, and she remained at the old homestead after his death. This gentle and loved pioneer woman was eighty-five years of age when she passed away. Both she and her husband were lifelong and devout members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their children, the eldest was Hugh, who married Nancy Bond, both continuing their residence in the Beechwoods until they died; William M. married Margaret Smith, and was a resident of DuBois, Clearfield county, at the time of his demise; Boyd, who became a clergyman of the Covenanter Church, went to one of the Western States, where he married Julia Ann Johnson (both passed the closing years of their lives in the Beechwoods); Martha became the wife of James Osborn, and her death occurred at DuBois, Clearfield county; Sarah was the wife of Robert Osborn and was a resident of Falls Creek, Clearfield county, at the time of her death; Rachel, who likewise died at Falls Creek, was the wife of Samuel Osborn; Mary is the wife of Henry Osborn, and they reside at Sabula, Clearfield county; Archibald is the only other surviving member of the immediate family. Four of the sisters of Mr. McCullough married brothers of the well known Osborn family.
Archibald McCullough was reared to manhood under the strenuous discipline of the pioneer farm, and his early educational advantages were those afforded in the primitive schools of the locality and period. He recalls that in the early days the settlers were compelled to go a distance of thirty miles to have their corn ground into meal, bringing the product home on their backs. The first gristmill in the immediate vicinity was that established by Mr. Osborn, on the site of the present borough of Falls Creek. In his clearing William B. McCullough would frequently shoot deer that had ventured in to the little grain fields to feed. For a number of years the nearest post office to the home of the McCullough family was that at Brookville. As a youth "Archie" McCullough as he is familiarly known, was, like nearly all other young men of the pioneer days, actively associated with lumbering operations incidental to the reclaiming of the land in this section of the State, and he continued to be identified with that industry for a long term of years. He rafted timber down the rivers, and in this work frequently went as far as the city of Pittsburgh. The first school which he attended was known as the Cooper school, a little log schoolhouse three miles distant from his home. His first teacher was Miss Nancy J. McClelland, who later became the wife of Hugh Daugherty. His education was rudimentary, but through self-discipline and the lessons gained under that wise headmaster, experience, he broadened his mental horizon with the passing years, and has long been known as a man of wide and accurate information and mature judgment.
Mr. McCullough has always been recognized as a loyal and public-spirited citizen, of well fortified convictions concerning governmental and economic affairs. In politics he first voted the Whig ticket, later was aligned with the American or Know Nothing party, and when the Republican party was organized allied himself therewith. To this party he gave his allegiance until he became a stanch advocate and supporter of the cause of the Prohibition party, with which he has continued to be loyally identified. He holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Grove Summit, and his wife is a member of the Beechwoods Presbyterian Church.
In the autumn of 1856 Mr. McCullough married Margaret Armstrong, the ceremony having been performed Nov. 13th, at the home of the bride's parents on Clarion county. That his bride-to-be resided in an adjoining county has caused Mr. McCullough to venture the facetious statement that "in those days the girls used to go a long distance to court the boys." After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. McCullough found abiding place in the home of one of his sisters until the completion of their own place, which was then in the process of construction. They removed to their house before the doors had been hung, and even before the floors were laid, though platforms had been provided for the temporary accommodation of the cookstove and the bed, the young couple gaily making their precarious way about the rooms by stepping from joist to joist. The little house which was their original domicile gave place in 1888 to their present commodious and attractive residence, in which they are passing the evening of their lives. Their devoted companionship has covered a period of over sixty years, in which they have shared each other's joys and sorrows and been sustained and comforted by the mutual love and sympathy that make for ideal home life. Only for a short time did Mr. and Mrs. McCullough sever their allegiance to the old home. They were moved to try pioneer life in Pottawatomie county, Kans., but farming on the prairies of the Sunflower State did not prove alluring to them, with the result that they returned after three years to Jefferson county and repurchased their old homestead farm, which they had sold in the belief that they would be more successful in Kansas. William W., the eldest of the children of this venerable and revered pioneer couple,
was born Feb. 19, 1858, is a lawyer by profession, and is now engaged in successful practice at Norman, Okla., where he is also engaged in the mercantile business; he married Alice Folsom, of Oklahoma, and their one son, Archibald, is now principal of the high school at Norman. Mary Elizabeth, born March 11, 1860, is the wife of Andrew Smith, one of the prosperous farmers of the Beechwoods. Martha Jane, born July 2, 1862, became the wife of Dexter D. McConnell, and their home was at Falls Creek at the time of her death. Alexander A., born Dec. 26, 1865, married Jennie Davenport, and they maintain their home at Falls Creek. Hugh B., who is an able and successful lawyer and one of the representative members of the bar of Jefferson county, is engaged in the practice of his profession at Brockwayville; the maiden name of his wife was Anna Smith.
Mrs. Margaret (Armstrong) McCullough was born on a pioneer farm in Pinecreek township, Clarion county, and there she was reared to the age of fifteen years, having been a child at the time of her mother's death and having then found a home with her sister, Mrs. John Cooper, of the Beechwoods. Her father, Alexander Armstrong, was born in Ireland, and farmed there, as did also his father. He and one of his sisters came to America prior to the war of 1812, and while that second conflict with England was in progress they were joined in America by their brother Joseph, who made the voyage on an American vessel, which, to avoid attack by British vessels of war, did not display the flag of the United States. This led to the boat being "captured" on the high seas by a vessel of the United States navy, but the true state of affairs was readily explained and the vessel was permitted to continue its course. Alexander Armstrong and his sister landed in Philadelphia and thence he proceeded to Clarion county, where he obtained a tract of wild land and instituted the development of a farm from the wilderness. There he married Elizabeth Thom, who died when her daughter Margaret, Mrs. McCullough, was a child of two years. Later Alexander Armstrong married Bell Campbell, and both continued their residence in Clarion county until they
died. Mr. Armstrong passing away on his old homestead farm in 1875, when somewhat more than eighty years of age. Of the first marriage were born eight children: James married Ann Cave, and both died in Clarion county; Mary Ann became the wife of Robert Morrison, and they were residents of the Beechwoods, Jefferson county, at the time of their deaths; Jane, who died in Clarion county, was the wife of John Cooper; William passed the closing period of his life at Rockford, Ill., as did also his wife; John wedded Rose Ann Groves, and both died in Beechwoods; Elizabeth, the wife of Sylvester Oppett, died in Clarion county; Mrs. McCullough was the next in order of birth and is now the only survivor of the eight children; Alexander, who never married, was a resident of Clarion county at the time of his death.
James Armstrong, grandfather of Mrs. McCullough, was well advanced in years when he came to America in company with his wife and their son Joseph and other children. They settled in Clarion county, and there he passed the residue of his life. He was one hundred years old at the time of his death, and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Arnold, preceded him to the grave. Of their children, Alexander, father of Mrs. McCullough, was the eldest; Nancy died in Clarion county, unmarried; Joseph married Mary Hinman, and both died in Clarion county; Lydia became the wife of Joseph Blaine, and they died in Armstrong county; Catherine, who became the wife of James Anderson, died in Clarion county.
MCCULLOUGH, ARCHIE
Washington, Beechtown P.O., is a farmer, and was born in County Down, Ireland, on Apr. 4, 1829, and was a son of William and Mary (Moffett) McCullough, who settled in Washington Twp. in 1832, locating on a farm now occupied by their son Archie, which they cleared and improved and upon which they resided up to the time of their deaths. Their children were Hugh, William, Boyd, Martha, Archie, Sarah, Rachel, and Mary. Archie succeeded to the old homestead. He was married Nov. 6, 1856 to Margaret Armstrong. They have had 5 children: William W., Mary E., Martha J., Alexander A. and Hugh B.
HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Kate M. Scott and published in 1888, transcribed by Leah Rudolph.
Archibald McCullough
in the Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1964
Name: Archibald McCullough
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 89
Birth Date: 4 Apr 1829
Birth Place: Ireland
Death Date: 5 Nov 1918
Death Place: Washington, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, USA
Father: William B McCullough
Mother: Mary Moffet
Certificate Number: 170335
ARCHIBALD McCULLOUGH is one of the venerable and highly honored pioneer citizens of Jefferson county and one of the few remaining representatives of the first generation of the substantial Scotch-Irish families that settled in the Beechwoods district of the county in the early days, when this section of Pennsylvania was little more than an untrammeled forest wilderness. Mr. McCullough has been one of the vigorous and industrious pioneers who were leaders in social and industrial development and progress in Jefferson county, his early experiences touching all the phases of pioneer life. His sterling elements of character have ever held the unqualified confidence and goodwill of his fellow men. No other citizen of the Beechwoods has here resided for so long a period as this venerable pioneer, and Washington township delights to do him honor as a veritable patriarch.
Mr. McCullough was born in County Down, Ireland, April 4, 1829, and thus the spring of 1917 marks his attainment of the venerable age of eighty-eight years. Save that he suffers from arterio-sclerosis he is still vigorous physically and, as he himself has stated, he could still do a good day's work were it not for this minor physical ailment. His mental faculties are unimpaired by the lapse of years, and his reminiscences of the pioneer days are most graphic and interesting. He was a child at the time the family home was established in the Beechwoods, and here he has remained during the long intervening period, more than fourscore years. Mr. McCullough was two years old when his parents set forth from Ireland to establish a new home in America. The sailing vessel on which the family crossed the Atlantic was destined for Philadelphia, but after a long and tempestuous voyage was unable to proceed up the river to that port on account of the river being frozen over, and thus the passengers disembarked at the port of New York City. The father, William B. McCullough, had been a farmer and manufacturer of linen in Ireland, and after he had come with his family to Philadelphia, in 1831, he there found employment as a weaver until the following spring, when he brought his family to Jefferson county, making the overland trip with teams and wagons.
In the Beechwoods he purchased from the venerable Judge Heath a tract of five hundred acres. His three nearest neighbors to the east were twenty miles distant, to the north seven miles, and to the south three miles. This sturdy pioneer made a clearing on which he erected his little log house of one room, and in this primitive domicile, with its puncheon floor and wide fireplace, the family home was established. Here also peace and happiness found abiding place, though the family necessarily endured a full share of the hardships and privations incidental to pioneer life. In Ireland they had been in good financial circumstances, and after William B. McCullough arrived in America he received information that in his native
land there had been left to him an appreciable sum of money. He finally decided to make the return voyage to Ireland for the purpose of securing this inheritance, and he proceeded to Philadelphia on foot, traversing the long distance at the rate of fifty miles a day. He then sailed for Ireland, obtained his inheritance, and after a short visit returned to the new home in the United States. With indefatigable industry he continued the work of clearing his land, and in this herculean task his sons gave him effective aid, each of the sons eventually becoming the owner of a portion of the large landed estate, Archibald receiving the center, or homestead, farm.
William B. McCullough was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1800, and his death occurred at his home in the Beechwoods in the year 1876. His widow, whose maiden name was Mary Moffett, likewise, was a native of County Down, and she remained at the old homestead after his death. This gentle and loved pioneer woman was eighty-five years of age when she passed away. Both she and her husband were lifelong and devout members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their children, the eldest was Hugh, who married Nancy Bond, both continuing their residence in the Beechwoods until they died; William M. married Margaret Smith, and was a resident of DuBois, Clearfield county, at the time of his demise; Boyd, who became a clergyman of the Covenanter Church, went to one of the Western States, where he married Julia Ann Johnson (both passed the closing years of their lives in the Beechwoods); Martha became the wife of James Osborn, and her death occurred at DuBois, Clearfield county; Sarah was the wife of Robert Osborn and was a resident of Falls Creek, Clearfield county, at the time of her death; Rachel, who likewise died at Falls Creek, was the wife of Samuel Osborn; Mary is the wife of Henry Osborn, and they reside at Sabula, Clearfield county; Archibald is the only other surviving member of the immediate family. Four of the sisters of Mr. McCullough married brothers of the well known Osborn family.
Archibald McCullough was reared to manhood under the strenuous discipline of the pioneer farm, and his early educational advantages were those afforded in the primitive schools of the locality and period. He recalls that in the early days the settlers were compelled to go a distance of thirty miles to have their corn ground into meal, bringing the product home on their backs. The first gristmill in the immediate vicinity was that established by Mr. Osborn, on the site of the present borough of Falls Creek. In his clearing William B. McCullough would frequently shoot deer that had ventured in to the little grain fields to feed. For a number of years the nearest post office to the home of the McCullough family was that at Brookville. As a youth "Archie" McCullough as he is familiarly known, was, like nearly all other young men of the pioneer days, actively associated with lumbering operations incidental to the reclaiming of the land in this section of the State, and he continued to be identified with that industry for a long term of years. He rafted timber down the rivers, and in this work frequently went as far as the city of Pittsburgh. The first school which he attended was known as the Cooper school, a little log schoolhouse three miles distant from his home. His first teacher was Miss Nancy J. McClelland, who later became the wife of Hugh Daugherty. His education was rudimentary, but through self-discipline and the lessons gained under that wise headmaster, experience, he broadened his mental horizon with the passing years, and has long been known as a man of wide and accurate information and mature judgment.
Mr. McCullough has always been recognized as a loyal and public-spirited citizen, of well fortified convictions concerning governmental and economic affairs. In politics he first voted the Whig ticket, later was aligned with the American or Know Nothing party, and when the Republican party was organized allied himself therewith. To this party he gave his allegiance until he became a stanch advocate and supporter of the cause of the Prohibition party, with which he has continued to be loyally identified. He holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Grove Summit, and his wife is a member of the Beechwoods Presbyterian Church.
In the autumn of 1856 Mr. McCullough married Margaret Armstrong, the ceremony having been performed Nov. 13th, at the home of the bride's parents on Clarion county. That his bride-to-be resided in an adjoining county has caused Mr. McCullough to venture the facetious statement that "in those days the girls used to go a long distance to court the boys." After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. McCullough found abiding place in the home of one of his sisters until the completion of their own place, which was then in the process of construction. They removed to their house before the doors had been hung, and even before the floors were laid, though platforms had been provided for the temporary accommodation of the cookstove and the bed, the young couple gaily making their precarious way about the rooms by stepping from joist to joist. The little house which was their original domicile gave place in 1888 to their present commodious and attractive residence, in which they are passing the evening of their lives. Their devoted companionship has covered a period of over sixty years, in which they have shared each other's joys and sorrows and been sustained and comforted by the mutual love and sympathy that make for ideal home life. Only for a short time did Mr. and Mrs. McCullough sever their allegiance to the old home. They were moved to try pioneer life in Pottawatomie county, Kans., but farming on the prairies of the Sunflower State did not prove alluring to them, with the result that they returned after three years to Jefferson county and repurchased their old homestead farm, which they had sold in the belief that they would be more successful in Kansas. William W., the eldest of the children of this venerable and revered pioneer couple,
was born Feb. 19, 1858, is a lawyer by profession, and is now engaged in successful practice at Norman, Okla., where he is also engaged in the mercantile business; he married Alice Folsom, of Oklahoma, and their one son, Archibald, is now principal of the high school at Norman. Mary Elizabeth, born March 11, 1860, is the wife of Andrew Smith, one of the prosperous farmers of the Beechwoods. Martha Jane, born July 2, 1862, became the wife of Dexter D. McConnell, and their home was at Falls Creek at the time of her death. Alexander A., born Dec. 26, 1865, married Jennie Davenport, and they maintain their home at Falls Creek. Hugh B., who is an able and successful lawyer and one of the representative members of the bar of Jefferson county, is engaged in the practice of his profession at Brockwayville; the maiden name of his wife was Anna Smith.
Mrs. Margaret (Armstrong) McCullough was born on a pioneer farm in Pinecreek township, Clarion county, and there she was reared to the age of fifteen years, having been a child at the time of her mother's death and having then found a home with her sister, Mrs. John Cooper, of the Beechwoods. Her father, Alexander Armstrong, was born in Ireland, and farmed there, as did also his father. He and one of his sisters came to America prior to the war of 1812, and while that second conflict with England was in progress they were joined in America by their brother Joseph, who made the voyage on an American vessel, which, to avoid attack by British vessels of war, did not display the flag of the United States. This led to the boat being "captured" on the high seas by a vessel of the United States navy, but the true state of affairs was readily explained and the vessel was permitted to continue its course. Alexander Armstrong and his sister landed in Philadelphia and thence he proceeded to Clarion county, where he obtained a tract of wild land and instituted the development of a farm from the wilderness. There he married Elizabeth Thom, who died when her daughter Margaret, Mrs. McCullough, was a child of two years. Later Alexander Armstrong married Bell Campbell, and both continued their residence in Clarion county until they
died. Mr. Armstrong passing away on his old homestead farm in 1875, when somewhat more than eighty years of age. Of the first marriage were born eight children: James married Ann Cave, and both died in Clarion county; Mary Ann became the wife of Robert Morrison, and they were residents of the Beechwoods, Jefferson county, at the time of their deaths; Jane, who died in Clarion county, was the wife of John Cooper; William passed the closing period of his life at Rockford, Ill., as did also his wife; John wedded Rose Ann Groves, and both died in Beechwoods; Elizabeth, the wife of Sylvester Oppett, died in Clarion county; Mrs. McCullough was the next in order of birth and is now the only survivor of the eight children; Alexander, who never married, was a resident of Clarion county at the time of his death.
James Armstrong, grandfather of Mrs. McCullough, was well advanced in years when he came to America in company with his wife and their son Joseph and other children. They settled in Clarion county, and there he passed the residue of his life. He was one hundred years old at the time of his death, and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Arnold, preceded him to the grave. Of their children, Alexander, father of Mrs. McCullough, was the eldest; Nancy died in Clarion county, unmarried; Joseph married Mary Hinman, and both died in Clarion county; Lydia became the wife of Joseph Blaine, and they died in Armstrong county; Catherine, who became the wife of James Anderson, died in Clarion county.
MCCULLOUGH, ARCHIE
Washington, Beechtown P.O., is a farmer, and was born in County Down, Ireland, on Apr. 4, 1829, and was a son of William and Mary (Moffett) McCullough, who settled in Washington Twp. in 1832, locating on a farm now occupied by their son Archie, which they cleared and improved and upon which they resided up to the time of their deaths. Their children were Hugh, William, Boyd, Martha, Archie, Sarah, Rachel, and Mary. Archie succeeded to the old homestead. He was married Nov. 6, 1856 to Margaret Armstrong. They have had 5 children: William W., Mary E., Martha J., Alexander A. and Hugh B.
HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Kate M. Scott and published in 1888, transcribed by Leah Rudolph.
Archibald McCullough
in the Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1964
Name: Archibald McCullough
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 89
Birth Date: 4 Apr 1829
Birth Place: Ireland
Death Date: 5 Nov 1918
Death Place: Washington, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, USA
Father: William B McCullough
Mother: Mary Moffet
Certificate Number: 170335
Taken from "Jefferson County, Pennsylvania - Her Pioneers and People," Vol. II, by Dr. William James McKnight, published in 1917 by J.H. Beers & Company, Chicago, page 285.
ARCHIBALD McCULLOUGH is one of the venerable and highly honored pioneer citizens of Jefferson county and one of the few remaining representatives of the first generation of the substantial Scotch-Irish families that settled in the Beechwoods district of the county in the early days, when this section of Pennsylvania was little more than an untrammeled forest wilderness. Mr. McCullough has been one of the vigorous and industrious pioneers who were leaders in social and industrial development and progress in Jefferson county, his early experiences touching all the phases of pioneer life. His sterling elements of character have ever held the unqualified confidence and goodwill of his fellow men. No other citizen of the Beechwoods has here resided for so long a period as this venerable pioneer, and Washington township delights to do him honor as a veritable patriarch.
Mr. McCullough was born in County Down, Ireland, April 4, 1829, and thus the spring of 1917 marks his attainment of the venerable age of eighty-eight years. Save that he suffers from arterio-sclerosis he is still vigorous physically and, as he himself has stated, he could still do a good day's work were it not for this minor physical ailment. His mental faculties are unimpaired by the lapse of years, and his reminiscences of the pioneer days are most graphic and interesting. He was a child at the time the family home was established in the Beechwoods, and here he has remained during the long intervening period, more than fourscore years. Mr. McCullough was two years old when his parents set forth from Ireland to establish a new home in America. The sailing vessel on which the family crossed the Atlantic was destined for Philadelphia, but after a long and tempestuous voyage was unable to proceed up the river to that port on account of the river being frozen over, and thus the passengers disembarked at the port of New York City. The father, William B. McCullough, had been a farmer and manufacturer of linen in Ireland, and after he had come with his family to Philadelphia, in 1831, he there found employment as a weaver until the following spring, when he brought his family to Jefferson county, making the overland trip with teams and wagons.
In the Beechwoods he purchased from the venerable Judge Heath a tract of five hundred acres. His three nearest neighbors to the east were twenty miles distant, to the north seven miles, and to the south three miles. This sturdy pioneer made a clearing on which he erected his little log house of one room, and in this primitive domicile, with its puncheon floor and wide fireplace, the family home was established. Here also peace and happiness found abiding place, though the family necessarily endured a full share of the hardships and privations incidental to pioneer life. In Ireland they had been in good financial circumstances, and after William B. McCullough arrived in America he received information that in his native
land there had been left to him an appreciable sum of money. He finally decided to make the return voyage to Ireland for the purpose of securing this inheritance, and he proceeded to Philadelphia on foot, traversing the long distance at the rate of fifty miles a day. He then sailed for Ireland, obtained his inheritance, and after a short visit returned to the new home in the United States. With indefatigable industry he continued the work of clearing his land, and in this herculean task his sons gave him effective aid, each of the sons eventually becoming the owner of a portion of the large landed estate, Archibald receiving the center, or homestead, farm.
William B. McCullough was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1800, and his death occurred at his home in the Beechwoods in the year 1876. His widow, whose maiden name was Mary Moffett, likewise, was a native of County Down, and she remained at the old homestead after his death. This gentle and loved pioneer woman was eighty-five years of age when she passed away. Both she and her husband were lifelong and devout members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their children, the eldest was Hugh, who married Nancy Bond, both continuing their residence in the Beechwoods until they died; William M. married Margaret Smith, and was a resident of DuBois, Clearfield county, at the time of his demise; Boyd, who became a clergyman of the Covenanter Church, went to one of the Western States, where he married Julia Ann Johnson (both passed the closing years of their lives in the Beechwoods); Martha became the wife of James Osborn, and her death occurred at DuBois, Clearfield county; Sarah was the wife of Robert Osborn and was a resident of Falls Creek, Clearfield county, at the time of her death; Rachel, who likewise died at Falls Creek, was the wife of Samuel Osborn; Mary is the wife of Henry Osborn, and they reside at Sabula, Clearfield county; Archibald is the only other surviving member of the immediate family. Four of the sisters of Mr. McCullough married brothers of the well known Osborn family.
Archibald McCullough was reared to manhood under the strenuous discipline of the pioneer farm, and his early educational advantages were those afforded in the primitive schools of the locality and period. He recalls that in the early days the settlers were compelled to go a distance of thirty miles to have their corn ground into meal, bringing the product home on their backs. The first gristmill in the immediate vicinity was that established by Mr. Osborn, on the site of the present borough of Falls Creek. In his clearing William B. McCullough would frequently shoot deer that had ventured in to the little grain fields to feed. For a number of years the nearest post office to the home of the McCullough family was that at Brookville. As a youth "Archie" McCullough as he is familiarly known, was, like nearly all other young men of the pioneer days, actively associated with lumbering operations incidental to the reclaiming of the land in this section of the State, and he continued to be identified with that industry for a long term of years. He rafted timber down the rivers, and in this work frequently went as far as the city of Pittsburgh. The first school which he attended was known as the Cooper school, a little log schoolhouse three miles distant from his home. His first teacher was Miss Nancy J. McClelland, who later became the wife of Hugh Daugherty. His education was rudimentary, but through self-discipline and the lessons gained under that wise headmaster, experience, he broadened his mental horizon with the passing years, and has long been known as a man of wide and accurate information and mature judgment.
Mr. McCullough has always been recognized as a loyal and public-spirited citizen, of well fortified convictions concerning governmental and economic affairs. In politics he first voted the Whig ticket, later was aligned with the American or Know Nothing party, and when the Republican party was organized allied himself therewith. To this party he gave his allegiance until he became a stanch advocate and supporter of the cause of the Prohibition party, with which he has continued to be loyally identified. He holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Grove Summit, and his wife is a member of the Beechwoods Presbyterian Church.
In the autumn of 1856 Mr. McCullough married Margaret Armstrong, the ceremony having been performed Nov. 13th, at the home of the bride's parents on Clarion county. That his bride-to-be resided in an adjoining county has caused Mr. McCullough to venture the facetious statement that "in those days the girls used to go a long distance to court the boys." After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. McCullough found abiding place in the home of one of his sisters until the completion of their own place, which was then in the process of construction. They removed to their house before the doors had been hung, and even before the floors were laid, though platforms had been provided for the temporary accommodation of the cookstove and the bed, the young couple gaily making their precarious way about the rooms by stepping from joist to joist. The little house which was their original domicile gave place in 1888 to their present commodious and attractive residence, in which they are passing the evening of their lives. Their devoted companionship has covered a period of over sixty years, in which they have shared each other's joys and sorrows and been sustained and comforted by the mutual love and sympathy that make for ideal home life. Only for a short time did Mr. and Mrs. McCullough sever their allegiance to the old home. They were moved to try pioneer life in Pottawatomie county, Kans., but farming on the prairies of the Sunflower State did not prove alluring to them, with the result that they returned after three years to Jefferson county and repurchased their old homestead farm, which they had sold in the belief that they would be more successful in Kansas. William W., the eldest of the children of this venerable and revered pioneer couple,
was born Feb. 19, 1858, is a lawyer by profession, and is now engaged in successful practice at Norman, Okla., where he is also engaged in the mercantile business; he married Alice Folsom, of Oklahoma, and their one son, Archibald, is now principal of the high school at Norman. Mary Elizabeth, born March 11, 1860, is the wife of Andrew Smith, one of the prosperous farmers of the Beechwoods. Martha Jane, born July 2, 1862, became the wife of Dexter D. McConnell, and their home was at Falls Creek at the time of her death. Alexander A., born Dec. 26, 1865, married Jennie Davenport, and they maintain their home at Falls Creek. Hugh B., who is an able and successful lawyer and one of the representative members of the bar of Jefferson county, is engaged in the practice of his profession at Brockwayville; the maiden name of his wife was Anna Smith.
Mrs. Margaret (Armstrong) McCullough was born on a pioneer farm in Pinecreek township, Clarion county, and there she was reared to the age of fifteen years, having been a child at the time of her mother's death and having then found a home with her sister, Mrs. John Cooper, of the Beechwoods. Her father, Alexander Armstrong, was born in Ireland, and farmed there, as did also his father. He and one of his sisters came to America prior to the war of 1812, and while that second conflict with England was in progress they were joined in America by their brother Joseph, who made the voyage on an American vessel, which, to avoid attack by British vessels of war, did not display the flag of the United States. This led to the boat being "captured" on the high seas by a vessel of the United States navy, but the true state of affairs was readily explained and the vessel was permitted to continue its course. Alexander Armstrong and his sister landed in Philadelphia and thence he proceeded to Clarion county, where he obtained a tract of wild land and instituted the development of a farm from the wilderness. There he married Elizabeth Thom, who died when her daughter Margaret, Mrs. McCullough, was a child of two years. Later Alexander Armstrong married Bell Campbell, and both continued their residence in Clarion county until they
died. Mr. Armstrong passing away on his old homestead farm in 1875, when somewhat more than eighty years of age. Of the first marriage were born eight children: James married Ann Cave, and both died in Clarion county; Mary Ann became the wife of Robert Morrison, and they were residents of the Beechwoods, Jefferson county, at the time of their deaths; Jane, who died in Clarion county, was the wife of John Cooper; William passed the closing period of his life at Rockford, Ill., as did also his wife; John wedded Rose Ann Groves, and both died in Beechwoods; Elizabeth, the wife of Sylvester Oppett, died in Clarion county; Mrs. McCullough was the next in order of birth and is now the only survivor of the eight children; Alexander, who never married, was a resident of Clarion county at the time of his death.
James Armstrong, grandfather of Mrs. McCullough, was well advanced in years when he came to America in company with his wife and their son Joseph and other children. They settled in Clarion county, and there he passed the residue of his life. He was one hundred years old at the time of his death, and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Arnold, preceded him to the grave. Of their children, Alexander, father of Mrs. McCullough, was the eldest; Nancy died in Clarion county, unmarried; Joseph married Mary Hinman, and both died in Clarion county; Lydia became the wife of Joseph Blaine, and they died in Armstrong county; Catherine, who became the wife of James Anderson, died in Clarion county.
MCCULLOUGH, ARCHIE
Washington, Beechtown P.O., is a farmer, and was born in County Down, Ireland, on Apr. 4, 1829, and was a son of William and Mary (Moffett) McCullough, who settled in Washington Twp. in 1832, locating on a farm now occupied by their son Archie, which they cleared and improved and upon which they resided up to the time of their deaths. Their children were Hugh, William, Boyd, Martha, Archie, Sarah, Rachel, and Mary. Archie succeeded to the old homestead. He was married Nov. 6, 1856 to Margaret Armstrong. They have had 5 children: William W., Mary E., Martha J., Alexander A. and Hugh B.
HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Kate M. Scott and published in 1888, transcribed by Leah Rudolph.
Archibald McCullough
in the Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1964
Name: Archibald McCullough
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 89
Birth Date: 4 Apr 1829
Birth Place: Ireland
Death Date: 5 Nov 1918
Death Place: Washington, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, USA
Father: William B McCullough
Mother: Mary Moffet
Certificate Number: 170335
ARCHIBALD McCULLOUGH is one of the venerable and highly honored pioneer citizens of Jefferson county and one of the few remaining representatives of the first generation of the substantial Scotch-Irish families that settled in the Beechwoods district of the county in the early days, when this section of Pennsylvania was little more than an untrammeled forest wilderness. Mr. McCullough has been one of the vigorous and industrious pioneers who were leaders in social and industrial development and progress in Jefferson county, his early experiences touching all the phases of pioneer life. His sterling elements of character have ever held the unqualified confidence and goodwill of his fellow men. No other citizen of the Beechwoods has here resided for so long a period as this venerable pioneer, and Washington township delights to do him honor as a veritable patriarch.
Mr. McCullough was born in County Down, Ireland, April 4, 1829, and thus the spring of 1917 marks his attainment of the venerable age of eighty-eight years. Save that he suffers from arterio-sclerosis he is still vigorous physically and, as he himself has stated, he could still do a good day's work were it not for this minor physical ailment. His mental faculties are unimpaired by the lapse of years, and his reminiscences of the pioneer days are most graphic and interesting. He was a child at the time the family home was established in the Beechwoods, and here he has remained during the long intervening period, more than fourscore years. Mr. McCullough was two years old when his parents set forth from Ireland to establish a new home in America. The sailing vessel on which the family crossed the Atlantic was destined for Philadelphia, but after a long and tempestuous voyage was unable to proceed up the river to that port on account of the river being frozen over, and thus the passengers disembarked at the port of New York City. The father, William B. McCullough, had been a farmer and manufacturer of linen in Ireland, and after he had come with his family to Philadelphia, in 1831, he there found employment as a weaver until the following spring, when he brought his family to Jefferson county, making the overland trip with teams and wagons.
In the Beechwoods he purchased from the venerable Judge Heath a tract of five hundred acres. His three nearest neighbors to the east were twenty miles distant, to the north seven miles, and to the south three miles. This sturdy pioneer made a clearing on which he erected his little log house of one room, and in this primitive domicile, with its puncheon floor and wide fireplace, the family home was established. Here also peace and happiness found abiding place, though the family necessarily endured a full share of the hardships and privations incidental to pioneer life. In Ireland they had been in good financial circumstances, and after William B. McCullough arrived in America he received information that in his native
land there had been left to him an appreciable sum of money. He finally decided to make the return voyage to Ireland for the purpose of securing this inheritance, and he proceeded to Philadelphia on foot, traversing the long distance at the rate of fifty miles a day. He then sailed for Ireland, obtained his inheritance, and after a short visit returned to the new home in the United States. With indefatigable industry he continued the work of clearing his land, and in this herculean task his sons gave him effective aid, each of the sons eventually becoming the owner of a portion of the large landed estate, Archibald receiving the center, or homestead, farm.
William B. McCullough was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1800, and his death occurred at his home in the Beechwoods in the year 1876. His widow, whose maiden name was Mary Moffett, likewise, was a native of County Down, and she remained at the old homestead after his death. This gentle and loved pioneer woman was eighty-five years of age when she passed away. Both she and her husband were lifelong and devout members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their children, the eldest was Hugh, who married Nancy Bond, both continuing their residence in the Beechwoods until they died; William M. married Margaret Smith, and was a resident of DuBois, Clearfield county, at the time of his demise; Boyd, who became a clergyman of the Covenanter Church, went to one of the Western States, where he married Julia Ann Johnson (both passed the closing years of their lives in the Beechwoods); Martha became the wife of James Osborn, and her death occurred at DuBois, Clearfield county; Sarah was the wife of Robert Osborn and was a resident of Falls Creek, Clearfield county, at the time of her death; Rachel, who likewise died at Falls Creek, was the wife of Samuel Osborn; Mary is the wife of Henry Osborn, and they reside at Sabula, Clearfield county; Archibald is the only other surviving member of the immediate family. Four of the sisters of Mr. McCullough married brothers of the well known Osborn family.
Archibald McCullough was reared to manhood under the strenuous discipline of the pioneer farm, and his early educational advantages were those afforded in the primitive schools of the locality and period. He recalls that in the early days the settlers were compelled to go a distance of thirty miles to have their corn ground into meal, bringing the product home on their backs. The first gristmill in the immediate vicinity was that established by Mr. Osborn, on the site of the present borough of Falls Creek. In his clearing William B. McCullough would frequently shoot deer that had ventured in to the little grain fields to feed. For a number of years the nearest post office to the home of the McCullough family was that at Brookville. As a youth "Archie" McCullough as he is familiarly known, was, like nearly all other young men of the pioneer days, actively associated with lumbering operations incidental to the reclaiming of the land in this section of the State, and he continued to be identified with that industry for a long term of years. He rafted timber down the rivers, and in this work frequently went as far as the city of Pittsburgh. The first school which he attended was known as the Cooper school, a little log schoolhouse three miles distant from his home. His first teacher was Miss Nancy J. McClelland, who later became the wife of Hugh Daugherty. His education was rudimentary, but through self-discipline and the lessons gained under that wise headmaster, experience, he broadened his mental horizon with the passing years, and has long been known as a man of wide and accurate information and mature judgment.
Mr. McCullough has always been recognized as a loyal and public-spirited citizen, of well fortified convictions concerning governmental and economic affairs. In politics he first voted the Whig ticket, later was aligned with the American or Know Nothing party, and when the Republican party was organized allied himself therewith. To this party he gave his allegiance until he became a stanch advocate and supporter of the cause of the Prohibition party, with which he has continued to be loyally identified. He holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Grove Summit, and his wife is a member of the Beechwoods Presbyterian Church.
In the autumn of 1856 Mr. McCullough married Margaret Armstrong, the ceremony having been performed Nov. 13th, at the home of the bride's parents on Clarion county. That his bride-to-be resided in an adjoining county has caused Mr. McCullough to venture the facetious statement that "in those days the girls used to go a long distance to court the boys." After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. McCullough found abiding place in the home of one of his sisters until the completion of their own place, which was then in the process of construction. They removed to their house before the doors had been hung, and even before the floors were laid, though platforms had been provided for the temporary accommodation of the cookstove and the bed, the young couple gaily making their precarious way about the rooms by stepping from joist to joist. The little house which was their original domicile gave place in 1888 to their present commodious and attractive residence, in which they are passing the evening of their lives. Their devoted companionship has covered a period of over sixty years, in which they have shared each other's joys and sorrows and been sustained and comforted by the mutual love and sympathy that make for ideal home life. Only for a short time did Mr. and Mrs. McCullough sever their allegiance to the old home. They were moved to try pioneer life in Pottawatomie county, Kans., but farming on the prairies of the Sunflower State did not prove alluring to them, with the result that they returned after three years to Jefferson county and repurchased their old homestead farm, which they had sold in the belief that they would be more successful in Kansas. William W., the eldest of the children of this venerable and revered pioneer couple,
was born Feb. 19, 1858, is a lawyer by profession, and is now engaged in successful practice at Norman, Okla., where he is also engaged in the mercantile business; he married Alice Folsom, of Oklahoma, and their one son, Archibald, is now principal of the high school at Norman. Mary Elizabeth, born March 11, 1860, is the wife of Andrew Smith, one of the prosperous farmers of the Beechwoods. Martha Jane, born July 2, 1862, became the wife of Dexter D. McConnell, and their home was at Falls Creek at the time of her death. Alexander A., born Dec. 26, 1865, married Jennie Davenport, and they maintain their home at Falls Creek. Hugh B., who is an able and successful lawyer and one of the representative members of the bar of Jefferson county, is engaged in the practice of his profession at Brockwayville; the maiden name of his wife was Anna Smith.
Mrs. Margaret (Armstrong) McCullough was born on a pioneer farm in Pinecreek township, Clarion county, and there she was reared to the age of fifteen years, having been a child at the time of her mother's death and having then found a home with her sister, Mrs. John Cooper, of the Beechwoods. Her father, Alexander Armstrong, was born in Ireland, and farmed there, as did also his father. He and one of his sisters came to America prior to the war of 1812, and while that second conflict with England was in progress they were joined in America by their brother Joseph, who made the voyage on an American vessel, which, to avoid attack by British vessels of war, did not display the flag of the United States. This led to the boat being "captured" on the high seas by a vessel of the United States navy, but the true state of affairs was readily explained and the vessel was permitted to continue its course. Alexander Armstrong and his sister landed in Philadelphia and thence he proceeded to Clarion county, where he obtained a tract of wild land and instituted the development of a farm from the wilderness. There he married Elizabeth Thom, who died when her daughter Margaret, Mrs. McCullough, was a child of two years. Later Alexander Armstrong married Bell Campbell, and both continued their residence in Clarion county until they
died. Mr. Armstrong passing away on his old homestead farm in 1875, when somewhat more than eighty years of age. Of the first marriage were born eight children: James married Ann Cave, and both died in Clarion county; Mary Ann became the wife of Robert Morrison, and they were residents of the Beechwoods, Jefferson county, at the time of their deaths; Jane, who died in Clarion county, was the wife of John Cooper; William passed the closing period of his life at Rockford, Ill., as did also his wife; John wedded Rose Ann Groves, and both died in Beechwoods; Elizabeth, the wife of Sylvester Oppett, died in Clarion county; Mrs. McCullough was the next in order of birth and is now the only survivor of the eight children; Alexander, who never married, was a resident of Clarion county at the time of his death.
James Armstrong, grandfather of Mrs. McCullough, was well advanced in years when he came to America in company with his wife and their son Joseph and other children. They settled in Clarion county, and there he passed the residue of his life. He was one hundred years old at the time of his death, and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Arnold, preceded him to the grave. Of their children, Alexander, father of Mrs. McCullough, was the eldest; Nancy died in Clarion county, unmarried; Joseph married Mary Hinman, and both died in Clarion county; Lydia became the wife of Joseph Blaine, and they died in Armstrong county; Catherine, who became the wife of James Anderson, died in Clarion county.
MCCULLOUGH, ARCHIE
Washington, Beechtown P.O., is a farmer, and was born in County Down, Ireland, on Apr. 4, 1829, and was a son of William and Mary (Moffett) McCullough, who settled in Washington Twp. in 1832, locating on a farm now occupied by their son Archie, which they cleared and improved and upon which they resided up to the time of their deaths. Their children were Hugh, William, Boyd, Martha, Archie, Sarah, Rachel, and Mary. Archie succeeded to the old homestead. He was married Nov. 6, 1856 to Margaret Armstrong. They have had 5 children: William W., Mary E., Martha J., Alexander A. and Hugh B.
HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA by Kate M. Scott and published in 1888, transcribed by Leah Rudolph.
Archibald McCullough
in the Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1964
Name: Archibald McCullough
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 89
Birth Date: 4 Apr 1829
Birth Place: Ireland
Death Date: 5 Nov 1918
Death Place: Washington, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, USA
Father: William B McCullough
Mother: Mary Moffet
Certificate Number: 170335
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