The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17
COL E. c. CULP's RECORD.
He Had Been More or Less Prominent
i'll Kansas for Thirty Years.


Colonel Edward c. CUP. who died at
Kansas City yesterday, was one OF the
pioneers of Saline county. twenty
years ago he was prominent in Kansas
politics. He was one of the delegates
from Kansas to the Republican nation
al convention of 1884, which nominated
Blaine. Culp, along with Senator
Plumb and George r. Peck voted for
Arthur, although it is asserted that he
was instructed for Blaine.
In 1892 he was appointed secretary OF
the committee on ceremonies OF the
Chicago Columbian exposition, the
same position which he has been hold
ing with the St Louis Worlds fair
When the Spanish-American war broke
out Colonl Culp was ambitious to get
one of the appointments as brtgadier
general, and when it became certain
that Kansas would get one of these ap-
pointments he made an active race for
the place. Colonel J. w. F. Hughes and
general, then major. J. K. Hudson,
We're also applicants for the appoint
ment, and the latter secured it.
When Culp lost that he transferred
his application to Governor Leedy and
asked for the command of one of the
Kansas regiments. Among his endorse
rnents for this place was one signed by
Major T. J. Anderson, General j. h.
Hudson, D. r. Wagstaff. p. H. Coney,
J. G. Waters Cyrus Leland Webb Nc
Nall and others. This endorsement
contains the following about Colonel
Culps war record:
Colonel Edward c. Culp, who tender
ed his services to you a few weeks ago,
has a remarkable war record consider
ing the age at which he entered the
army, and from his long experience is
we'll qualified for the command of a
regiment in camp and field. At the age
of IL he entered the service in 1861 as
private in company d, of the Twenty
fifth Ohio infantry, enlisting at Ply
mouth, Ohio. He served in this regi-
mustered
1866, about one year after the close OF
the war, the regiment being held on
garrison duty in South Carolina until
that time and being the last volunteer
regiment to be mustered out of the ser
vice. During Colonel Cups service he
passed through the grades of corporal,
sergeant, sergeant-major, second and
first lieutenant, regimental adjutant,
captain, major, and lieutenant colonel,
and was twice brevetted by the presi-
dent as colonel and lieutenant colonel
on the battlefield. His regiment lost
more men, killed and wounded than
any other Ohio regiment. and was one
of the five regiments that lost more
than IS per cent of its men present for
duty in any one battle. That was at the
battle of Gettysburg when every officer
In the regiment but Colonel Culp, then
a first lieutenant, was killed or wound
ed"
of Captain Coney to this endorsement
there is a little story. When CuIp was
connected with the Chicago worlds
fair he, with Coney and others, or
ganized the company which exhibited
the Lapland village on the Midway
Plaisance, They got into row over
its mana ement. and one day CUP
and Coney renewed their war records
by having a pitched battle. History
does not state which one was vic
torious but after it was all over they
renewed their, friendship. When Culp
asked Governor Leedy for a colonel's
4 L., 49,, r.r
of the Kansas regiments, Coney went
to Leedy in person to recommend ulp.
He said he knew from personal ex-
perience that Culp was good fighter.
Colonel Culp was born IN Narwalk,
Ohio, sixty-two years ago He came
to Kansas thirty years ago and located
at Salina. He was state agent for the
Massac husetts Mutual Life Insurance
company for a time, and once organ
lied an insurance company Of his own
at Salina, but it was not successful
and it was finally absorbed by the
Kansas Mutual. He was prominent as
q Mason, having attained high places
not only in the Masonic Bodies proper.
but also in the Knights Templar and
the Mystic Shrine.
Col. Culp has not been as active in
politics in recent years as formerly
but when L. c. Crum died he was a
candidate for United States marshal
to succeed him. Senator Burton, how
ever, endorsed w. H. Mackey- A few
years ago Colonel Culp became inter-
ested in the business of Pain, the
fireworks man, and in the campaign
of 1900 he proposed to the Repub-
lfcan national committee that big dis
plays of fireworks be given as fea-
lures of the Republican campaign.
with pictures of the leading candi-
dates IN fireworks. It is said that the
plan was successfully tried in some of
the doubtful states.
Three children survive Colonel
CuIp They are John p. Culp of Sa-
Miss Mary Culp who has been with
her father in St. Louis. He was a