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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Pulaski County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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J. J. Culbertson, manager of the Southern Cotton Oil Company, Little Rock, Ark., has been a resident of that city ever since the erection of the mill. He is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, which he left when very young, and took up his abode in New York City, where he was reared and spent the greater portion of his life. While there he was engaged in the dry-goods commission business, and this his business tact and enterprise made very successful. Continuing in that line until the year 1882, he entered into the cotton-seed oil trade, and first located at Paris, Tex., where he joined in with a party of capitalists from Montgomery, Ala., erecting the cotton-seed oil-mill at that point, under the firm name of Culbertson, Gaston & Co. This mill was absorbed by the American Cotton Oil Trust, and some time afterward the Southern Cotton Oil Company was organized, with Mr. Culbertson as manager of the Little Rock mill, which is now one of the principal industries in that section. In secret societies he is a member of the American Legion of Honor, Royal Arcanum, and also belongs to the Mechanics’ Building & Loan Association. Mr. Culbertson’s marriage occurred in 1881, to Miss Emily Lee, of Plainfield, N. J. Three children have been born to their union: Emily, John J., Jr., and Florence. Mrs. Culbertson is a devout Christian lady, and a member of the First Baptist Church.

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This family biography is one of 156 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Pulaski County, Arkansas published in 1889.  For the complete description, click here: Pulaski County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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