Cullom, Edward T.

Edward T. Cullom, Clay Co., TN., then Livingston Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

Edward T. Cullom is president and general manager of time Springfield Lumber Company at Springfield, Louisiana, this being one of the organizations that contribute to the prestige of Louisiana as a great lumber manufacturing center. Time company was organized April 1, 1905, the principals in the organization being Mr. Cullom, W. J. Settoon and Charles S. Elms. Mr. Cullom has since been president and general manager, while his wife, Mrs. Cullom, is secretary and treasurer of the company. In the plants of the company are manufactured pine, cypress and various kinds of hardwood lumber. The product is mainly shipped to New Orleans and the gulf ports, and also large quantities go to time interior by rail out of New Orleans. The average cut of the company each year is nine million feet.Edward Trammel Cullom was born in Clay County, Tennessee, October 4, 1867, and was a young man when he identified himself with the lumber industry of Louisiana. His grandfather, Edward Northcraft Cullom, was born in Wayne County, Kentucky, in 1794.

It is noteworthy in passing that the late Shelby N. Cullom, United States senator from Illinois, was also a native of Wayne County, Kentucky, and his father bore the name of Richard Northcraft Cullom. Edward Northcraft Cullom spent most of his life in Overton County, Tennessee, where he operated ,a large farm and was a merchant. He died there in 1876. His wife, a Miss Alexander, was born in Kentucky. Their son, Thomas Jefferson Cullom, was born in Overton County in 1839, was married ,in Clay County, Tennessee, and devoted all his active years to the occupation of farming. About 1868 he moved to Monroe, in Overton County, Tennessee, returned to Clay County in 1887, and spent the last ten years of his life at Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he died April 1, 1899. He was a democrat in politics, a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and was a soldier of the Confederacy during the war between time states, being a member of a cavalry regiment.

Thomas Jefferson Cullom married Nancy Eleanor Keen, who was born in Clay County, Tennessee, and died in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1917. Their children were: Mrs. Alice Shaver, who died in Chicago, where her husband is in the insurance business, Edward T.; Miss Anna, of Phoenix, Arizona; Keen, who died at Bowling Green, Kentucky; Miss Susan, a teacher in the public schools at Phoenix, Arizona; William C., vice president and bookkeeper of time Springfield Lumber Company of Springfield, Louisiana; Calvin N., the seventh child, associated with his younger brother, the ninth child of the family, Clarence C., in the firm Ponchatoula Freight and Transfer Company at Springfield, Louisiana; Nannie the eighth child, the wife of J. B. Amos, a merchant at Butte, Montana; Leland, a bookkeeper at phoenix Arizona; Tillman A., the youngest, now a lumber inspector for the Springfield Lumber Company, with home at Hammond, Louisiana, a veteran of Lime World war, having been in France six months with an artillery regiment.Edward Tranel Cullom was educated in public schools in Overton County, Tennessee, where he spent his boyhood on the farm. He attended Alpine Academy in that county, also Oak Hill Academy, leaving that school when eighteen years of age and not long afterward came South, arriving in Springfield, Louisiana, August 5, 1887. For time next two years he was employed in logging work with the Leiper Lumber Company, then for three years was associated with the G. H. A. Thomas Lumber Company, after which he engaged in the logging and timber business on his own account, beginning in 1894. His name has been actively associated with the business of lumber manufacture in Eastern Louisiana for thirty years. He was a partner with Mr. W. J. Settoon from 1900 to 1905, after which they and other associates organized time Springfield Lumber Company, as mentioned above. This company owns six thousand acres of timber land.

Mr. Cullom owns a fine home a mile south of Springfield, on the Natalbany River, time home being on a tract of land of 140 acres in that vicinity. He is a democrat in politics, and from June, 1920, to June, 1924, represented time Sixth Ward as a member of time Police Jury of Livingston Parish, he is a former member of the Knights of Honor.On January 26, 1901, at Springfield, Louisiana, Mr. Cullom and Miss Augusta McQueen were united in marriage. She was born at Springfield, daughter of Alexander P. McQueen and granddaughter of Donald McQueen, a native of North Carolina, who spent most of his life in Pike County, Alabama, where he engaged in farming. He died there in 1888. Donald McQueen married a Miss Spear in Montgomery, Alabama. Sue was a native of that state. Alexander P. McQueen was born in Pike County, Alabama, in 1846 and was one of the youthful soldiers of the Confederacy. As a young maim he moved to Watson, Livingston Parish, Louisiana, was married at Springfield, became a merchant, and served as deputy sheriff of the parish for a time and was also a clerk in time Federal Custom House at New Orleans. He was holding that position when he died, March 17, 1871, at his home in Springfield.

He was a democrat in politics. The mother of Mrs. Cullom was Marion Wallace Kille, who was born at Springfield in 1839, and died there April 26, 1910. Mrs. Cullom was the only child of her parents.Three children were born to time marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Cullom. The oldest, Alice Kate, married Kenneth Pitcher, who is a farmer near Hammond, Louisiana, and a veteran of time World war. The son Edward Thomas Cullom, now living at home and acting as sales manager for the Springfield Lumber Company, has also the record of a veteran in the World war. His final service was at Camp Beauregard, where he was a sergeant in the Veterinary Corps and was with the colors from the fall of 1917 until the spring of 1919. The second son, James Elmore Cullom, chief engineer and min foreman of the Springfield Lumber Company, with home at Springfield, gave his service during the period of the World war as a radio operator in the U. S. Navy, being gone a year and a half. His service took him to Czecho-Slovakia and other places in Europe. 0n April 2, 1921, he married Miss Winnie Lee Bishop, of Biloxi, Mississippi.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 178-179, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.