History of Newark, (New Castle County) Delaware United States of America

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John Griffith McCullough, capitalist, was born in Newark, Del., Sept. 16, 1835; son of Alexander and Rebecca (Griffith) McCullough and grandson of John Griffith. He was graduated from Delaware college, A.B., 1855, A.M., 1858, and from the University of Pennsylvania, LL.B., 1858. He was admitted to the bar in 1859, removed to California the same year and practised law in Sacramento, and soon after in Mariposa. In 1861 he supported Gen. E. V. Sumner in preventing the secession of California. He was a Republican representative in the state assembly, 1862; state senator, 1863, and attorney-general of the state, 1864-67. He practised in San Francisco, 1867-73, when he removed to Vermont and settled at North Bennington. He became extensively interested in railroad enterprises; was vice-president of the Panama railroad company, 1874-82; president, 1882-88; was elected president of the Bennington and Rutland railroad company in 1882; president of the Chicago and Erie railroad company in 1890, and a director in the Erie and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F? railroad companies. He was also president of the First National bank of North Bennington; a director in the New York Security and Trust company the Bank of New York, the National Life Insurance company of Vermont, the Fidelity and Casualty Insurance company of New York, and other industrial, charitable and literary corporations. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Middlebury college, Vermont, in 1900. He was married, Aug. 30, 1871, to Eliza Hall Park, granddaughter of Gov. Hiland Hall, and their son Hall Park McCullough, became a lawyer in New York city.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Newark, (New Castle County) Delaware

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