Emily Mary McCullough
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Aug 1, 1878 - Indianapolis, Indiana
Death:
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Parents
Father: Jacob Sydner McCullough
Mother: Amanda Elizabeth Downey
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General:
[LISA.FTW]
Emily Mary McCullough is a sister to Lois Ann, Tom and Sandra's great grandfather Andrew Johannon McCullough.
In 1896 she graduated from the Indianaplis High School, (Shortridge High School), and in 1900 she graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in Home Economics, a field to which she then devoted her life. She taught in the Manual Training High School in Indianapolis from 1900 to 1912 except when she had an injured knee.
In 1912 she was selected for the new High School that was just being opened on the 76 acres of the olf U.S. Arsenal Grounds. This Arsenal Technical High School then started with 183 freshmen and eight teachers, but grew to a student boyd of 7200 with over 300 teachers.
Emily retired in 1945 as head of the Home Economics Department after 43 years of inspiring service. During this period she had taken post-graduate courses at Columbia University and the University of Minnesota.
She had been to Europe twice, once in the British Isles, and once on the continent.
During a year's leave of absence she aided the blind persons in an institutuion where she learned to weave, thus adding to her many accomplishments.
Since then she attended the Penland School of Handicrafting during several school vacations. After she retired her hobbies were weaving and "climbing the family tree".
This interest in genealogy led her to compile the records of the Downey and McCullough families and their descendants, starting with Emily Mary Baylis. Her interest and enthusiam and cooperation added much to the accuracy and completeness of the Baylis Genealogy.