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FallingRock44 wrote:

MY 4th cousin 6 times removed.   I have not found a lot of Info on him.

Michael Simpson Culbertson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michael Simpson Culbertson (January 18, 1819 – August 25, 1862) was an American Presbyterian clergyman, missionary to China, academic and author.

Contents

    1 Early life

    2 China

    3 Family

    4 Published works

    5 References

Early life

Michael Simpson Culbertson was born in 1819 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He entered United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, on 1 July 1835. United States Military Academy graduated him 6th of 31 in the class of 1839, and he received a commission as a second lieutenant in the First Artillery on 1 July 1839. Second Lieutenant Culbertson served at Rouses Point, New York, during the Aroostook War. He served briefly as assistant professor of mathematics at United States Military Academy 1 January to 1 February 1840. Second Lieutenant Culbertson then served with the First Artillery at Fort Preble in Portland, Maine, and Hancock Barracks in Houlton, Maine.

On 15 April 1841, Second Lieutenant Culbertson resigned his commission to study theology at Princeton Theological Seminary.[1]

China

Upon his graduation in 1844, Culbertson was ordained by the Presbyterian Church and was sent as a missionary to China by the American Presbyterian Mission. He was stationed in Ningbo from 1845 to 1851 and in Shanghai from 1851 to 1862,[1] where he acted as member of the Committee of Delegates on the revision of the Old Testament.[2] Culbertson later withdrew from the Committee of Delegates and co-published a variant of the "Delegate's Version" with Rev. Elijah Coleman Bridgman in 1855,[3] with the help of Episcopal Bishop William Jones Boone.[4] He died of cholera in Shanghai in 1862.[5]

Family

Michael Simpson Culbertson was of Irish descent, his paternal great-grandfather having emigrated from County Antrim, Ireland, to Franklin County, Pennsylvania, around the mid-18th century. His father Joseph (1779–1858) was a banker. Michael was the first born of his father's second wife, Frances (1785–1867) whom he married in 1818. He had five older brothers, and one sister from his father's previous union to Mary (died 1817). Michael had two brothers noteworthy in American History: Alexander (1809–1879), a fur trader and pathfinder for whom the town of Culbertson Montana is named; and Thaddeus Ainsworth (1823–1850), a Yale graduate, who explored with brother Alexander and authored, Journal of an expedition to the Mauvaises Terres and the Upper Missouri in 1850[6] Another brother, Cyrus (1812–1869) was an Officer in the Union Army during the Civil War.[7] Michael Simpson Culbertson and his wife had two daughters, who returned to New York with their mother upon his death. Josephine (1852–1939), born in China; studied art in New York, settled in Carmel, California becoming a noted artist. She co-founded the Carmel Art Association in 1927.[7]

Published works

    Papers relating to the Shanghai revision of the Chinese scriptures (Shanghai, 1851)[8]

    Reply to the Strictures on the remarks made on the translation of Genesis and Exodus in the revision of the Chinese scriptures (Canton, 1852)[8]

    Essay on the bearing of the publications of the Tai-ping dynasty insurgents on the controversy respecting the proper term for translating the words Elohim and Theos in the Chinese version of the Scriptures (1853)[8]

    The Old Testament (translated by Rev. E. C. Bridgman and Rev. M. S. Culbertson, 1855)

    The Religious Condition of the Chinese, and Their Claims on the Church: A Sermon Preached for the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church (1857)[9]

    Darkness in the Flowery Land; or Religious Notions and Popular Superstitions in North China (New York: Scribner, 1857)

References

    "The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Christian Cyclopedia". Retrieved 2008-02-08.

    Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams (1851). "Protestant Missions among the Chinese" (PDF). The Chinese Repository (Canton: Printed for the proprietors) XX: 537. Retrieved 2006-06-29.

    Eber, Irene (1993). "Translating the Ancestors: S. I. J. Schereschewsky's 1875 Chinese Version of Genesis". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (London: School of Oriental and African Studies) 56 (2): 219–233. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00005486.

    North (Ed.), Eric (1938). The Book of A Thousand Tongues Being Some Account of the Translation and Publication of All or Part of The Holy Scriptures Into More Than a Thousand Languages and Dialects With Over 1100 Examples from the Text. London and New York: Harper & Brothers.

    "William A. Karges Fine Art: Josephine Culbertson (1852-1939)". Retrieved 2008-02-08.

    Ainsworth, Thaddeus (1952). Journal of an Expedition to the Mauvaises Terres and the Upper Missouri in 1850. U.S. GPO.

    "Stray Leaves: A James Family in America since 1650". 2004-01-20. Retrieved 2008-02-08.

    "Consolidated List of Titles in SOAS China Pamphlets, compiled by Michael Poon". October 2004. Retrieved 2008-02-04.

    Crouch, Archie (1989). CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA: A Scholars' Guide to Resources in the Libraries and Archives of the United States. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc.

END

 

 

As a example of the info on worldconnect. Which you can see is part of Ancestry.com

 

FROM http://wc.rootsweb.a...onman&id=I05091

Adam & Eve and Some of Their descendants

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ID: I05091

Name: Michael Simpson Culbertson 1

Sex: M

Birth: 18 JAN 1819 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 1

Occupation: Reverend 1

GRAD: 1839 West Point Academy 1

Military Service: 1841 Resigned from United States Army 1

Education: Princeton College studie theology 1

Death: 25 AUG 1862 in Shanghai, China 1

Note:

    (The Brewster Genealogy volume 1)

    Was ordained in 1844, and same year was sent by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missons as a missionary to China, his wife accompanying him. His great work was a translation of the Bible, in which Dr. E. G. Bridgman was his colleague, and which was completed before his death.

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    1 possible matches found on Ancestry.com    Ancestry.com

Father: Joseph Culbertson

Mother: Frances Stuart

Marriage 1 Mary McFarlane Dunlap b: 19 JUL 1823 in Salem, New York

    Married: 16 MAY 1844 1

Children

    Has Children Helen Anna Culbertson b: 13 JAN 1846 in Ningpo, China

    Has No Children Frances Cornelia Culbertson b: 25 DEC 1847 in Ningpo, China

    Has No Children Walter Culbertson b: 13 OCT 1849 in Ningpo, China

    Has No Children Mary Josephine Culbertson b: 04 MAY 1852 in Shanghai, China

    Has No Children Emma Culbertson b: 14 FEB 1854 in Shanghai, China

    Has No Children Laura Culbertson b: 07 MAR 1856 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

    Has No Children Lilly Culbertson b: 21 JUN 1858 in Shanghai, China

    Has No Children Alice Culbertson b: 07 OCT 1859 in Shanghai, China

Sources:

    Author: Emma C. Brewster Jones

    Title: The Brewster Genealogy volume 1

    Publication: Name: The Grafton Press, New York, New York 1908; Location: Wisconsin State Historical Society Library, Madison, Wisconsin;

    Note:

    Emma C. Brewster Jones, The Brewster Genealogy volume 1 (Wisconsin State Historical Society Library, Madison, Wisconsin, The Grafton Press, New York, New York 1908), Source Medium: Book

Display pedigree in table format

                     /Joseph Culbertson

             /Robert Culbertson

             |       |       /Alexander Breckenridge

             |       Mary Breckenridge

             |               |               /Phineas Preston

             |               |       /John Preston

             |               |       |       Letitia Hammond =>

             |               Jane Preston

             |                       Mary Stewart

     /Joseph Culbertson

     |       Ann Duncan

Michael Simpson Culbertson b: 18 JAN 1819 d: 25 AUG 1862

     Frances Stuart

END

 

 

Bye the bye always look for files with sources.

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FallingRock44 wrote:

 

1st cousin 7 times removed

 

From http://www.sbhla.org/bio_mercer.htm

Southern Baptist Historical Library & Archives

Biographies

Jesse Mercer

              (b. Halifax County, N. C., Dec. 16, 1769; d. Butts County, Ga., Sept. 6, 1841).

              Son of Silas Mercer, able pioneer minister and the eldest of eight children, five

              boys and three girls. His formal education was obtained under the tuition of John

              Springer, a Presbyterian minister and Princeton graduate who lived near

              Washington, Ga., and embraced some knowledge of learned languages. He had an

              additional year of study under a man named Armor in Salem Academy, a school

              maintained by his father, the first private Baptist school in Georgia.

              Although reared an Episcopalian, Silas Mercer became a Baptist from conviction.

              He baptized his 17-year-old son Jesse into the membership of the Phillips' Mill

              church. At the age of 20, Jesse Mercer was ordained as a minister, and in 1789 he

              began his first pastorate at Hutton's Fork (now Sardis) which had been established

              by his father. Following the death of his father in 1796, he moved back to the old

              family home in Wilkes County to administer the estate. He became principal of

              Salem Academy which his father had founded, continued to serve as pastor of

              Sardis, and accepted calls to the other three of his father's churches, Phillips' Mill,

              Wheatley's Mill (later Bethesda), and Powelton, and served them for 39, 32, and

              28 years respectively. One of these, Powelton Church, was one of the chief rallying

              points of Georgia Baptists.

              It was in the Powelton conference in 1801 that the foundation was laid for the

              missionary work of the Georgia Association, especially to the Creek Indians. In the

              Powelton conferences in 1802 and 1803, the general committee of Georgia

              Baptists for itinerant preaching and missionary work was formed. In 1822 the

              General Association of Georgia Baptists (changed, in 1827, to Georgia Baptist

              Convention) was organized. It held its first meeting in Powelton in 1823, and during

              the first eleven years of its history it met seven times in churches of which Jesse

              Mercer was or had been pastor.

              At the age of 19 Jesse Mercer married Sabrina Chivers, who was his wife for

              nearly 40 years. Throughout his ministry he was an itinerant volunteer missionary

              and preached to many congregations in various localities in the belief that only

              through itinerant preaching would the gospel be carried to needy people in sparsely

              settled areas. On his trips he carried the tracts and books of the American Tract

              Society for gift and sale and also gave his support to mission work among the

              slaves. He was an ardent supporter of missions, Sunday schools, and temperance

              and financed the Temperance Banner, the first temperance paper in the South. He

              was a successful businessman as well as a preacher and philanthropist of his day.

              For many years Jesse Mercer was the recognized leader of the Georgia Baptist

              Association and in the Georgia Baptist Convention. He served as clerk of the

              association for 21 years, as moderator for 23 years, and as writer of its history. He

              was president of the Georgia Baptist Convention for 19 years, from its founding in

              1822 until 1841, when feeble health made his attendance impossible. He was a

              trustee of Columbian College in Washington, D. C., and the first president of the

              board of trustees of Mercer University, which bears his name. He was an able

              advocate and a liberal patron of education, particularly ministerial education, as

              indicated in his conducting Salem Academy for two years following his father's

              death, in his gift of $2,000 for the first msisionary to Texas, William Melton Tryon,

              and in his support of Mount Enon Academy, Columbian College, and Mercer

              Unviersity.

              He attended four meetings of the Triennial Convention and preached the

              convention sermon in 1826. While returning from this meeting and en route home

              through South Carolina, Mrs. Mercer became seriously ill, passed away, and was

              buried at Andersonville, S. C. Soon Mercer's own failing strength led him to lighten

              his work. He moved to Washington, Ga., where he founded the First Baptist

              Church in 1827, became its pastor, and served until his death 14 years later in

              1841.

              In Dec., 1827, he married Mrs. Nancy Simons of Wilkes County, the Gentile

              widow of a wealthy Jew, Captain Abraham Simons.

              Aside from his father, the one who most influenced his interest in missions and

              Christian education was Luther Rice, whose service to missions and Christian

              education was nationwide. Jesse Mercer had the qualities of statesmanship in a high

              degree. He played the leading role in the organization of the Georgia Baptist

              Convention for collective counsel and co-operation, in the founding of Mercer

              University for the training of ministerial and lay leadership, and in the purchase and

              gift to Georgia Baptists of the Christian Index for publicity and promotion, which

              he published for seven years. His Cluster of Spiritual Songs, many of which were

              produced by him, went through several editions and was a worthy contribution to

              American hymnology. He also wrote A History of the Georgia Baptist

              Association (Washington, 1838).

END

Sorry I pposted the two ancestors wrong ahould have started a new thread. sorry

 

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Posted Today, 12:59 PM

FallingRock44, on 30 Sept 2014 - 12:18 PM, said:

MY 4th cousin 6 times removed.   I have not found a lot of Info on him.

Michael Simpson Culbertson

Michael Simpson Culbertson (January 18, 1819 – August 25, 1862) was an American Presbyterian clergyman, missionary to China, academic and author.

 

 

LOL  FallingRock, if you're related to Michael Simpson Culbertson on his grandfather's line (Colonel Robert Culbertson), then you're related to me.

 

Rev. Michael Simpson Culbertson was my 3rd cousin 5x removed (3rd cousin of my 3rd great grandmother)

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FallingRock44 wrote:Posted Today, 02:59 PM

rudywoofs, on 30 Sept 2014 - 12:59 PM, said:

 

Well I know it is a small world from doing Genealogy.  My program calculated the relationship.  My Culbertson directline to my mother comes through Andrew Sr. Culbertson b. abt.1694 Ireland; d.abt.1746 Pennsylvania.   From what I found his father William Culbertson b.abt.1654 Scotland; d.abt.1688 Ireland (maybe in the seige of Londonderry??)  this William had two brothers, names unkonwn (to me).  Michael Simpson Culbertson's line comes down through one of the brothers of William b.abt.1654. That I have termed ? (1) Culbertson.

These are the ancestors of Michael b.Jan.18,1819 that I have:

1) ? Scotland Culbertson

2) ? (1) Culbertson b. Scotland; d. Ireland   (brother of my William b.abt.1654)

3) Joseph Culbertson b.abt.1723, Ireland; d. Dec.1784, Pennsylvania.

Married Mary Breckenridge

4) Col. Robert Culbertson (you mentioned)

Married Anne (or Annie C.?) Duncan

5) Joseph Culbertson b.Feb.27,1779, Pennsylania; d.July06,1838, unknown

married 1st Mary Finley and 2nd Frances Stuart the mother of Michael

6) Michael Simpson Culbertson.

 

If what I have is somewhat correct.  The further back the more hazy things become.

Back in the timeline we are related no matter the exact *cousin *removed which is daunting at times.

HI cousin good to meet you after all this time.  Glad to see you are doing well in the Lord.

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okay...

 

your Andrew Culbertson (1694-1746) married Janet Breckenridge.  Janet was somehow related to Alexander Breckenridge (perhaps a sister?) 

 

Alexander Breckenrige and Jane Preston were my 7th great grandparents, and the 2nd great grandparents of Michael Simpson Culbertson.   

 

Michael's 3rd cousin was John Cabell Breckinridge, US Vice President, and Sec of War for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

[FallingRock44]

 

okay...

 

your Andrew Culbertson (1694-1746) married Janet Breckenridge.  Janet was somehow related to Alexander Breckenridge (perhaps a sister?) 

 

Alexander Breckenrige and Jane Preston were my 7th great grandparents, and the 2nd great grandparents of Michael Simpson Culbertson.   

 

Michael's 3rd cousin was John Cabell Breckinridge, US Vice President, and Sec of War for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

 

Thanks for moving the files. 

The Breckenridge line had a lot of elected people

"FROM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breckinridge_family

Breckinridge family

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Breckinridge family is a family of public figures from the United States. The family has included six members of the United States House of Representatives, two United States Senators, a cabinet member, two Ambassadors, a Vice President of United States and an unsuccessful Presidential candidate. Breckinridges have served as college presidents, prominent ministers, soldiers, theologians and in important positions at state and local levels. The family was most notable in the State of Kentucky and most prominent during the 19th century, during nearly one-third of which a member of the family served in the Congress of the United States. Below is a list of members."

This article goes on to list them.

I have not worked on my genealogy for a bit.  Need to pin down some of the loose ends now that I looked at the Breckenridge line again.  

The Breckenridge and Culbertson lines married each other around 9 times by my count. 

I am still looking for the parents of Janet Breckenridge.  Seems to be some diverse opinons on who they were. 

Thanks again for moving the files.