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

[page 394-395]

  THOMAS McCULLA, Editor and Manager of the Cherokee Times, and
  present Mayor of the city, is the subject of this brief bio-
  graphical notion.  He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, November,
  29, 1855, and is a son of JOHN and SARAH (McCRAITH) McCULLA,
  of Scotch-English extraction.  He received a good common-school
  education, and then took a special course at Wilton [Iowa] coll-
  egiate Institute.  He afterward entered the law department of
  the Iowa State University at Iowa City, and was graduated in
  the class of 1879.  He was admitted to the bar at Muscatine,
  Iowa, in June, 1878, and located in Cherokee, July, 1879, and
  entered into the practice of his profession.  He has always
  been considered a sound attorney with whom to counsel.  He is
  a diligent reader, and is well posted on the topics of the day.
  Mr. McCULLA practiced law and handled real estate until 1887,
  when he became editor of the oldest Republican journal in the
  county, the Cherokee Times.  At present he divides his energies
  between the publication of his paper and the practice of his
  profession.  He was elected mayor of Cherokee in 1885, and has
  held that office ever since to the entire satisfaction of the
  public.  In the way of offices he has held that of city recorder
  and city attorney.  Politically he is a Republican, who can al-
  ways be counted on as true to his party and sound in his judgment.
  He is an honored member of the various Masonic divisions from the
  Blue Lodge to the Commandery.  He is also a member of the I.O.O.F.
  He is interested in many of the commercial enterprises of the place,
  and always works for the best interests of the masses.

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