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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 631]

    LEWIS JAMES McCULLA is one of three original homesteaders still living
    in Spring Township.  He settled upon the land which is now his home
    in the spring of 1870, and his farm now consists of 700 acres of fine
    land, lying principally in O'Brien County.  Mr. McCULLA was born in
    Montreal, Canada, September 20, 1843, and is the eldest of four child-
    ren, the others are ELLEN, SARAH, and the well-known editor of the
    Cherokee Times.  When but a boy our subject removed with his family
    to Buffalo, New York, and in 1857 he migrated to Iowa, and settled in
    Muscatine County.  At the age of fifteen years he secured a position
    on a river steamboat, and for three years followed the river.  He then
    decided to further fit himself for the battle of life by learning a
    trade, and accordingly entered a machine shop at Muscatine, Iowa,
    working for one year, in which he made satisfactory progress.  It was
    at that time there was a call for men to go to the defense of this
    nation's flag, and Mr. McCULLA responded, enlisting in Company H,
    Eleventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry.  At Lake Providence, Louisiana,
    he was transferred to the Sixty-first Missouri Light Artillery, with
    which he served until the battle of Atlanta, when he was sent on a
    foraging expedition, and was captured by guerrillas, and for six
    months was confined in prison.  But one besides himself of the eight
    men captured from his county came out alive.  He had participated in
    many of the severest battles of the war, among them Shiloh, the siege
    of Corinth, Meadow Station and Vicksburg.  He received his discharge
    at St. Louis, and returned to his old Iowa home.  There he engaged
    in farming until 1869, when he went to what is now the flourishing
    village of Creston, Iowa, and there assisted in building the first
    house in that place.  The following spring he came to Cherokee County
    and secured his home.  He devotes his time and energies especially to
    live-stock, breeding and shipping.  He feeds from two to four car-
    loads annually, and 150 head of hogs.  Mr. McCULLA was married in
    Cherokee County to Miss MARY ADEL COLEMAN, a daughter of PHILO G. and
    RACHEL (BALDWIN) COLEMAN.  They have had six children born to them:
    WALTER, CARRIE, BEN B., THOMAS, MARY and ASA.  PHILO G. COLEMAN
    removed from New York to Iowa, settling in Johnson County.  In 1872
    he came to Cherokee County, and since that time has made it his home.
    Politically Mr. McCULLA is a Republican, and is one of the leading
    men of his party in Spring Township.


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