The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-04
SENATOR N'CULLOH DEAD.

4 ffOmlnenJ Lawyer ana Legislator
Succamhs to Heart Disease-Com-
munity Shocked by Sudden De.
j mise of Popular Citizen.
| Hon. Richard Mccall McCulloh, state
senator from the ninth district and one of
i the best known and most prominent citi-
zens of this community, died suddenly at
his home at $50 o'clock p. m. last Wed
nesday, the list inst. from the effects of
an attack Of heart disease. MIR McCuIIoh
was apparently in the best of health up TO
a few minutes before his death, and at S
O'Clock was attending to business matters
in his Office with his law partner. B. j.
! Vega. who left q few minutes later 70 20
to the office of Messre. Pugh &. Lemann,
just around the corner Shortly after Mr..
i Vegas departure, about Sis o'clock, Mr..
MfeCulllolhl went into his residence, adjoin
4 ing his law Office. and when his wife came
in few mliinHtes later she found him IN
dressed and in bed In response to her
solieltous questions, Mr.. Mcgulloh in
formed her he was suffering from a VIC
lent pain in his stomach and requested
her to prepare dose Of ether for him.
She asked how many drops constituted a
dose. and upon being told that two Of
three were sufficient set about preparing
| the medicine. At this moment the stricken
man exclaimed that he was nauseated
and asked that Bromo Settler be substi-
tuted for the ether. There being none of
this remedy in the house. Mrs. McCulloh
proceeded to the X-Ray Pharmacy, just
across the street, and purchased bottle.
Returning at once, she prepared dose OF
the medicine and was about to admins
ter it to her husband when he became vio-
lently i'll and vomited in a vessel which
she hurriedly placed at his bedside, i'm
nediately afterwaEd falling back with a
gasp. Mrs. McCulloh ran to the Office and
called MIR. Vega, who had in the mean
time returned from his consultation with
Messrs. Pugh & Lemann. When Mr.. Vega
+.
McCulloh had breathed his last, but not
wishing to al4rm Mrs. McCu,loh. he htlr-
ried out in search Of a physician without
telling her the appalling truth. and it was
not until few minutes later, when DR..
John D. Hanson reached the scene, that
Mrs. McCulloh realized her husband had
passed away. DR.. Hanson stated that in
all probability death had been caused by
an attack of heart failure.
Senator McCulloh had attained the age
of ifty-two years. eleven months and
fourteen days, and and was a native Of this
city, having been born and reared in the
dwelling at the garner Of Railroad and
Nichols avenues which he owned and in
which ne resided at the time of bis death.
He was educated at the Virginia Military
Institute and after graduating from that
institution entered the law department of
| the University OF Louisiana. completing
The course and receiving his diploma In
1880. He returned to Donaldspnville to
practice hissprofession. subsequently fill
ing the position of Chief Deputy Clerk of
Court under Hon. L. E. Bentley In 1888
he was elected district attorney of the
tWenty-seyenth judicial district, serving in
that capacity until 1892. Later he served
term OF four years as parish superintend-
ent of public education, and at the last
general election in 1908 he was elected to
represent the ninth senatorial district in
the upper house of the Louisiana general
assembly, which position he was filing at
the time ofEhis death with signal credit to
himself and to the entire satisfaction OF
his constituents:
During the war with Spain IN 1898 Capt.
dcCulIoh organized battery of artillery,
known as the Donaldsonvilie Gannoneers,
which was mustered into the service of
he government and throughout the war
vas stationed at Jackson Barracks, in
New Orleans. He was elected captain of
the battery. with Hon. E. N. PugI, the
lestor Of the local bar, as first lieutenant,
md Hon. Charles K. Fugua, private sec
rotary to Gov. Sanders, as second lieuten-
ant.
he was a member of DonaIdsonviIe
Lodge No. 1889, Knights of Honor, and
oonaldsonville Lodge No. 1853, B. P. @. /
f.lks. The funeral, which took place al
$50 O'Clock Thursday afternoon. was CON
iucted under the auspices of the latter or.
sanization, and was one of the largest
and most imposing corteges ever seen in
this community. Besides the Elks, who
attended in a body, there were uniformed
delegations from the various companies
comprising the local fire department, rep.
eseatatives Of the Knights Of Honor
! dge, ard All outpouring of people gen
rally from near and far. among the dis
mourners from a distance be-