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- Champe was the 8th of 9 children.
Early Waco Obituaries, Waco Times-Herald, 1907
Sun., Dec. 15 (7-4): Former Mayor C. C. McCulloch died yesterday at the
residence, 407 Columbus, age 66, of paralysis, etc. Funeral pending. Champe
Carter McCulloch was born Feb. 14, 1841, at Westwood, St. Clair Co., Missouri.
Capt. of 2nd Cavalry Brigade, Missouri State Guard, C.S.A. Later, Major. To
Waco after the war. Married May 22, 1867, to Miss Emma Bassett, daughter of
Louis Bassett, Esq., of Matagordo Co., Texas. Elected Mayor in 1890 and 1892.
Member of Waco Lodge 92, A.F. & A.M.; also Cowan Lodge of K. of P., Pat
Cleburne Camp, and St. Paul Episcopal Church.
Biographical Sketch
C.C. McCulloch, Mayor of the city of Waco, was born in St. Clair county,
Missouri, in 1841, the eighth of a family of nine children.
His father, W.H. McCulloch, was born in Virginia in 1790, and emigrated to
Missouri at a very early day. He was at one time Clerk of St. Clair county,
and was a soldier in the war of 1812, attaining the rank of Captain. He was
married to Miss Mary Carter, of Virginia, and reared a large family, on
four of whom are living at the present time.
C.C., the subject of this notice, received his education in a private school
in Rockbridge county, Virginia, and at the tender age of thirteen, began to
experience the responsibilities of life. He began his business career as a
merchant's clerk, and from the age of seventeen to nineteen he tried his hand
at agricultural pursuits, tilling the soil and raising live-stock. At this
time the war between the North and the South arose, when all industries were
abandoned. He enlisted in the Second Missouri Cavalry as Brigade Adjutant, and
participated in all the important battles of the Trans-Mississippi department
north of Louisiana. In the later part of 1863 he left the service on account
of ill health, but was afterward attached to the Ordnance Department. He was
at Shreveport, Louisiana, when the war closed and peace was dedicate
Mr. McCulloch came directly to Waco and embarked in the mercantile business.
From 1867 to 1869 he was in the employ of Sherman Brothers, of New York city,
a large hardware firm. In April 1886, he was elected Alderman of Waco, for the
First Ward, and re-elected in 1888. In 1890, he was elected Mayor, and re-
elected in 1892, and is now serving his second term in that position. During
his term as Mayor great advances have been made in the improvement of t
city. The City Hall has been built, the streets have been paved, the
suspension bridge has been purchased from the stockholders, and sewage lines
have been laid. He is a warm friend of the public-school system, and has in
every possible way aided and encouraged educational enterprises.
In 1867, Mayor McCulloch was married to Miss Emma Bassett of Alabama, and they
are the parents of ten (10) children, seven of whom are now living, namely:
C.C. Jr., is a graduate of the University of Virginia, in the literary and
medical departments, and is now Assistant Surgeon of the United States Army at
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas. He is regarded as one of the best
educated men of his age in the country, and probably holds as many college
degrees any man of his age in the United States. His record in the past has
been, indeed, remarkable. For his wife, he married Miss Letta, a daughter of
D.R. Gurly, of Waco. Mayor McCulloch's second child is Sallie, a graduate of
the St. Louis Conservatory of Musch, who completed her musical education in
New York city. The other children are Roy, Louis, Adele, Shirley and Grace.
The family belong to the Episcopal Church.
The Mayor is a member of the Masonic order, Waco Lodge, No. 92, and the
Knights of Phtyias, Crown Lodge, No. 77.
The McCulloch House, Waco, Texas
The Architecture: The original house consisted of a two-room structure. The
house was enlarged to its present two-story Greek Revival house made of local
pink brick. There was a dependency: a detached kitchen to the north of the
original structure that was incorporated into the main building when the house
was enlarged.
The Families: Dr. Josiah H. Caldwell, a Waco physician, and his wife built the
house in 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Champe Carter McCulloch purchased the house in
1872. Mr. McCulloch was a prominent Wacoan. He was a local merchant who made
frequent trips to New York to buy merchandise for other Waco merchants. He
served as Mayor for about 11 years. He and his wife, Emma, had ten children.
The last descendant, a daughter-in-law, lived in the house until 197
Emma Bassett, later to become Mrs. McCulloch, was brought to Waco from
Corsicana, Texas, by buggy, to teach piano and penmanship at the Waco
University when the teacher of those subjects left for the Civil War. M
McCulloch was a staunch Episcopalian and served as senior warden when t
church was in South Waco as well as when it moved across from his residence at
4th Street and Columbus Avenue. One son, Louis Bassett McCulloch, lived in the
McCulloch residence until he died.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1841 - 1907 (66 years)