Bio William Edward Culver

WILLIAM EDWARD CULVER, of Louisville, Kentucky; b. 3d July, 1803, in Plymouth Township, Luzerne County (Wyoming Valley), Pennsylvania; d. 12th March, 1876; removed to Ohio with his parents in 1809; at an early age he settled in Bourbon County, Kentucky, and before he attained his twenty-second year was appointed Postmaster of Centerville, Kentucky, by the Hon. John McLean of Ohio, who was Postmaster-General under Presidents MONROE and John Quincy ADAMS; he removed subsequently to the city of Louisville, where he engaged in business as a private banker for a period of twenty years, retiring shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War; m. (1st) 15th June, 1826, in Kentucky, Martha Hawkins CRAIG, b. 1805, d. 2d January, 1866, near Huntsville, Alabama, dau. of Samuel H. CRAIG, of Woodford County, Kentucky; m. (2d) 9th January, 1868, in Baltimore, Maryland, Jane MCCLINTOCK, b. 23d December, 1833, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dau. of Matthew MCCLINTOCK, who m. Susan APPLEBY, son of Samuel and Jane (RANKIN) MCCLINTOCK, gd. son of Alexander MCCLINTOCK, of County Donegal, Ireland, who m. Anne PATTERSON. 

The MCCLINTOCKS were of Scotch extraction and settled in the counties of Donegal and Londonderry, in the north of Ireland, at the time of the Revolution of 1688, the family being among the "landed gentry," Susan Appleby MCCLINTOCK, wife of Matthew MCCLINTOCK and mother of Mrs. Jane (MCCLINTOCK) CULVER, was a dau. of John APPLEBY, b. 1789, d. 1834, one of Baltimore's Defenders in September, 1814, who m. Elizabeth SHEILD, b. 1790, d. 1865, dau. of William SHEILD, b. 1760, d. 1816, who m. Rachel BALL, b. 1766, d. 1857, dau. of James BALL, b. 1731, d. 1808, son of John BALL, d. 1761 and Mary ——–; John was son of Lieut. Thomas BALL, d. 1722, an officer of the Talbot [p.114] County, Maryland Militia in 1696, by his wife Susanna ——–; James BALL, b. 1731, m. Elizabeth KEMP, b. 1732, d. 1814, dau. of John KEMP, b. 1681, d. 1751, who m. Mary BALL, and a gd. dau. of Robert KEMP, b. 1650, d. 1702, who m. Elizabeth WEBB, dau. of Edmund WEBB, d. 1685, owner of "Bolton" in Bayside, Talbot County, Maryland.

Source: Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 4 -ISSUE BY FIRST MARRIAGE page 114

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