Background
Mccullough, Joseph Allen was born on September 9, 1865 in Greenville Company, South Carolina, United States. Son of Review Allen Cleveland and Anne (Rebecca) Stepp.
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Joseph Allen Mccullough
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Student Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina., 1881-1882. Bachelor of Arts, South Carolina College, Columbia, South Carolina., 1883, Bachelor of Laws, 1887, Doctor of Laws, 1905.
Career
Frederic, Elizabeth McCullough (deceased), Maud McCullough (deceased), Joseph A. (deceased). Married second, Mistress Emma Lumpkin Clark, January 3, 1916 (died 1923). Adopted on account of mother’s ill health and brought up by maternal uncle, Colonel James McCullough.
Admitted to South Carolina. bar, 1887, and practiced at Greenville as member various firms. Moved to Baltimore, Maryland., 1918. Member South Carolina.
House of Representatives 8 years. Active in securing passage of first child labor law in South Carolina., the first compulsory education law and an appropriation of $850,000 for good roads. Frequently called upon to act as special judge in the courts.
Chief attorney for United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, Baltimore, 1918-1928. In general practice of law, since 1928.
Membership
Member South Carolina. House of Representatives 8 years. Member Board of Governors Medical General Hospital, Franklin Square Hospital.
Member Court of Appeals of same denomination.
Connections
Married Maud d’Alvigny, June 3, 1890 (died 1914).; married second, Mistress. Children: James d’Alvigny, Chas.
