Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-07

hepuDllcau party IOT congress ltoh
the seventeenth congressional dis
trict, is one Of the best known young
men in Central Pennsylvania and
one eminently qualified to fill the
high position to which he aspires.
While not a native of Northum-
berland county he has been a resi-
dent of Shamokin for the past thirty
years during which time he has be-
come perfectly acquainted with the
varied interests of the coal regions
and thoroughly conversant with
thier requirements.
Mr.. Kulp is the oldest son of the
late Darlington r. Kulp, and was
born in Barto, Berks county, Oct.
%, 1851. When about seven years
of age his parents moved to Shamo-
kin where for the next ten years he
was engaged about the mines, work
ing in nearly every branch of the
coal industry, attending at irregular
intervals the public schools of the
borough where he received a common
school education.
At the age of seventeen he entered
the store of his father and remained
there until the firm of kulp Il Nc
Williams was formed in 1878 when
he entered their employ and began
to learn the lumber business in
which he has since became so sue
cessful
Having desire to obtain more
liberal education he entered the
State Normal school, at Lebanon, o.
in 1919, where for two years he pur-
sued such studies rs would fit him
for an active business life, and in
1881 he completed his school life at
Eastman college, Poughkeepsie, n.
Y. Here he made a decidedly cred
table record, graduating from the
business course of that famous in
stitution in the shortest time of any
student for more than year. His
special fitness for the work of an ac-
countant was here shown, and his
work throughout the course was
worthy of special mention.
Oh his return from Poughkeepsie
he assumed charge of the books of
the firm of Kulp, McWilliams & Co.,
and for the next four years he filled
that position in most satisfactory
manner soon becoming posted in
every detail Of their extensive busi-
ness so that he had every branch at
his fingers end.
In 1886 tie firm was Dissolved,
Darlington II. Kulp assuming the
entire lumber business formerly car
ried on by the firm and our candi-
date assisted III its management
until the illness of his father in 1892
when he assumed entire charge of all
the affairs of the estate, consisting
of timber operations In nine counties
in this state and West Virginia
covering an acreage of twenty thous
and acres of land, employing in sea-
son over three hundred men and one
hundred and fifty head of stock, and
doing a business aggregatlng several
hundred thousand dollars annually
He has thus advanced from the
lowest step on the ladder, that of the
laborer, to the highest round that oi
: the manager, and while his progress
was rapid, it was the result Of strict
attention to business and the exer
else of excellent judgment, kindly
disposition toward all whom he came
in contact with, and an untiring per
severance. lie stands to-day among
the employers and employed alike
one of the most popular and bes
thought men in the business.
Mr.. Kulp has always been an en-,
thusiastic Republican and, although
never before seeking his own ad
vapcement, he is known as an aotiv
earnest and liberal worker and on
, who left nothing undone whicI
!, would benefit his party. His nam
had frequently been mentioned i
connection with local and count
offices but he always declined polit
e cal preferment until 1890 at the re
l. quest of many friends he was cal
J. didate for the Legislature, with a
IS almost absolute certainty of success
N Other complications arising in I'll
le convention, he withdrew from I'll
h field for the sake of harmony, an
= some of the strongest support he +
o ceived before the recent nominal tic
le was voluntarily given him for th