The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-06-01

and Other Railroads Residence Was
in North Bennington.
NEW YORK, June l. Ex-Gov John
Griffith Mccullough of Vermont died
at his home here Sunday night, aged
70 years.
John Griffith Mccullough was born
near Newark. Del. Sept. Is, 1885, a son
of Alexander and Rebecca Griffith
Mccullough. He was educated in the
public schools and graduated from Del
aware college at the age of 20.
/ He studied law in Philadelphia and
completed course in the law school
of the University of Pennsylvania
with the class of 1859. Being compelled
/ to seek a milder climate, he located
at Mariposa, Calf, and obtained ad
mission to the bar of the state. He had
an active part in the campaign that
resulted in saving California TO the
federal cause. He was elected to the
assembly and a year later 40 the state
| senate. In 1868 he was elected attor-
nev general and later took up the pfac-
tice Of law in San Francisco.
In 1873 he moved to North Benning
ton, Vt. Through his law practice in
California he had acquired a consider
able fortune, which he invested in
banking and railroad enterprises. For
eight years he was vice president Of
the Panama Railroad company and sue
ceeded the president. TrenOr W. Park.
upon the death of the latter in 1882
In 1884 he was made q director of the
Erie Railroad company and four years
later became chairman of the executive
ngY1If fap E hnN T.,
was one of the two receivers appointed
in 1898 to reorganize the company
For 10 years he was president Of the
Chicago & Erie Railroad company. and
filed the same position with the Ben
nington & Rutland Railroad company
for Is years. He was president of the
FIRST National bank Of North Benning-
ton at the time of his death and had
. been in recent years director in the
Bank Of New York, the New York Sc
curity and Trust company, the Fidelity
and Casualty company the National
Life Insurance company of Vermont,
the American Trading company of New
York, the New York 6 jersey CITY
Tunnel Railroad company, the Central
Vermont Railroad company, the Atchi-
SIN, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad com
pany, the Lackawanna Steel company
He was a regular attendant at the
Republican state conventions for more
than quarter Of a century On three
occasions he was delegate to presi-
dental conventions. lie was a state
, senator from Bennington county in
. lS9S and In 1902 he was elected COVER
: nor In one of the most vigorously
fought campaigns in the history of the
D state.
1t was in this campaign that P. W.
, Clement of Rutland, Vt, made his
} historic fight which resulted in giving
the state local option liquor law in
! place of the prohibition law which had
o been in force n half century. McCuI
- Tough, Clement and the late Fletcher
i ID. Proctor, afterward governor, were
: the candidates for the Republican nom
nation for governor. There was nc
majority in the state convention on The
! first two ballots, but Mccullough wa.
!. nominated on the third ballot aftel
! about 100 Clement delegates had 1ef'
< the convention. I'm the popular elec
e tion in September Clement ran as AZ
! independent, polling 80 per cent Of IN,
+; Republican vote and 60 per cent of tn,
: Democratic vote. Mccullough had ;
!. plurality OF 1862, but lacked NOR,
. than 5000 votes of election. He wa,
chosen chief executive of the state b7
go majority in the legislature.
. He married in 1871 Eliza Hall Park
? daughter of Trenor w. Park, who sur
/. wives, together with four children, Hal
: Park Mccullough, New York attor
!. ney; Mrs. Thornton f. Turner of Ben
! nington, Ella S. Mccullough of Pouob
!, keepsie, n. y, and Esther M. McCul
!. Tough of North Bennington.