This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCullough, Koons, Watson, Perlee, Siebert, Kepper, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sh.2ADI/1970 Message Board Post: This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it. Typed by Lora Radiches: Other surnames mentioned in the biography of JOHN MCCULLOUGH are, McCullough, Koons, Watson, Perlee, Siebert, Kepper, JOHN MCCULLOUGH. Men contribute by various services and diversified gifts to the up building of a thriving and populous city some by the foundations of law and municipal order, others give themselves to founding churches and schools, still others open up the avenues of commerce and furnish facilities for the transaction of business. In a thousand different but converging directions they bend their energies, according to some occult law of organization, to the common weal. It was in the wholesale drug business that the late John McCullough added to his city’s prestige and acquired his personal prominence and fortune. From 1900 until his death in 1927 he was identified with the McCullough Drug Company, of which he was head at the time of his demise, and during his career was known as one of the foremost citizens and ablest business men of Lawrenceburg, of which city he had been mayor from 1918 until 1922. Mr. McC! ullough was born at Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indians, in 1875, a son of J. C. and Louise (Koons) McCullough. S. C. McCullough was born in Ohio, where he received his education, was reared to manhood and engaged in the drug business. He moved to Lawrenceburg when still in young manhood, and here continued to be connected with various pharmacies until 1898, in which year he founded and incorporated the McCullough Drug Company, of which he was president at the time of his death. He was prominent in business circles and was a man of influence in public matters, at one time serving as county clerk of Dearborn County. Mr. McCullough married Miss Louise Koons, and they became the parents of four Sons: Edwin C., who married Lillian Watson; John of this review; W. T., who married Jennie Perlee; and Harry William, who married Flora Siebert. The public schools of Lawrenceburg furnished John McCullough with his educational training and after his graduation from high school he se! cured a position as traveling salesman, carrying a general merchandise line through Indiana and adjoining states. In 1900, when the McCullough Drug Company began to assume large proportion, he became associated with his father in that concern, and at the elder man’s death succeeded him in the presidency, remaining in that position until his own demise in 1927. His widow is now president of this large concern, which markets its products wholesale in every state in the Union, and which has ten people in its employ. Mr. McCullough was a man of sound judgment. He was always ready to change and take opportunity it offered. But as his prudence and conservatism were exceptional, his prescience almost infallible and his personal integrity of the highest, there was never the slightest suggestion of fickleness or a lack of persistence in any of his undertakings. Mr. McCullough was a Democrat In politics. Probably it was far from his thoughts to live a political life, much less to become a candidate for the! chief executive office of his city. Nevertheless, after having served capably as a member of the City Council for some years, in 1918 he was elected mayor and acted in that capacity until 1922, his great personal popularity and reputation for probity carrying him triumphantly into the mayoralty chair, It was decidedly a business administration. No paltry consideration of profit to himself controlled him. By introducing system into the city affairs and economy into expenditure, the public credit was kept intact. He was a member of Lawrenceburg Lodge No. 4, A. F. and A. M., and of the Mystic Shrine at Indianapolis, and belonged to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Lawrenceburg Kiwanis Club. In 1919, at Lawrenceburg, Mr. McCullough was united in marriage with Miss Celestine Kepper, who was born at Lawrenceburg, a daughter of Charles and Louise Kepper natives of Canada. To this union there was born one daughter: Jean Louise, who is now! attending school. Mrs. McCullough, who became president of the McCull ough Drug Company in February, 1927, is a woman of business ability, and is also a leader in social and club life at Lawrenceburg, where she owns a beautiful home.