Biography of Robertson Culbertson, pages 522 / 523.  History of De Kalb 
County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Robertson Culbertson, one of the prominent citizens of Concord Township, was 
born in Coshocton  County, Ohio, April 6, 1815, a son of Robert and Mary 
(Pepples) Culbertson, native of Pennsylvania; his father of Westmoreland 
County, of Scotch descent, and his mother of Adams County, of Irish descent.  
In 1810 his parents moved to Coshocton County, Ohio, where the father died 
six weeks before the birth of our subject.  Four years later the mother 
married John Henderson.  When eight years of age he went to live with his 
grandfather Culbertson in Wayne County, and remained with him till nineteen 
years of age.  He then began to work for farmers by the month, and in 1838 
came to De Kalb County, Ind., and entered 120 acres of land in Concord 
Township.  Returning to Ohio  he remained five years and then moved his 
family to the new home, which he has since cleared and improved, and now has 
one of the best farms in the township.  He was married Nov. 10, 1836 to 
Margaret Robinson, daughter of Hugh Robinson, and to them were born seven 
children, but three of whom are living.  One son, Joseph, enlisted Sept. 
5, 1861, in the first company that left De Kalb County for the defense of 
the Union, and was killed at the battle of Shiloh, April 7, 1862, aged 
twenty-one years. A daughter, Mary J., was the wife of JohnC. Owens, and 
died at the age of thirty years, leaving a family of children.  Mrs. 
Culbertson died June 24, 1874, aged fifty-five years and twenty days.  
August 28, 1883, Mr. Culbertson married________ Brown, widow of Samuel 
Brown, by whom she has three children---Calvin H., Willis B., and Herman 
L..  In 1855 Mr. Culbertson was elected as Assessor and Land appraiser 
serve years. In politics he is a Republican.  He and his wife are members 
of the Protestant Methodist church.

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