Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co. DR. HUGH M. McCULLOUGH was born in Louisville, July 17, 1858, and is a son of James and Rebecca (Seay) McCullough, the former of Scotch origin, but came from the north of Ireland to Louisville in 1840. He is in the wholesale and retail furniture business on Main street, and is one of the oldest living merchants west of the Alleghenies. Mrs. Rebecca (Seay) McCullough was born in Lynchburg, Va., and came to Kentucky with her father's family when very young. Her father opened the St. Cloud Hotel in Louisville. He was a colonel in the war of 1812, and died many years ago. He was of English extraction. The subject is the third of four sons, and was educated principally in Edinburgh and Dublin, graduating in medicine in the latter city, having studied there for three years, and then came back to Louisville, and graduated in 1878 from the University of Louisville. He makes surgery a specialty, and has a special diploma for that branch of practice. He practiced medicine in Louisville for a year, then went West; returned two years later, and resumed practice. He was married in 1879 to Miss Minnie Smith. She died in 1881. He held the position of county physician while in Kansas. McCullough Seay = VA KS http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jefferson/mccullough.hm.txt