Carey, Charles Henry.  "History of Oregon." Vol. 3. Chicago-Portland: Pioneer
Historical Pub. Co., 1922.  pp. 496-7.

JOHN MILTON CULBERTSON

Although not yet forty-one years of age, John M. Culbertson, head of the firm of
John M. Culbertson & Company, is the pioneer real estate dealer of Hood River,
Oregon. He was born at Fort Worth, Texas, in 1879, a son of Elijah and Helen
(Curtner) Culbertson, natives of Indiana, in which state their families had been
pioneers as they themselves were of Texas. An early member of the family, John
Culbertson, was among the first settlers of Indiana, locating in that state when
the Indians were giving considerable trouble to new settlers. He was engaged in
the mercantile business and built the first store in Fort Worth, Texas, the
store being afterward used as the first courthouse of Tarrant county for the
transaction of legal business.

John M. Culbertson was educated in the schools of Fort Worth and the university
of that city, from which he was graduated. On the completion of his university
course, he engaged in the mercantile business with his brother until 1904, when
the state of his health caused his retirement. Coming to the Pacific coast, he
visited Hood River, and liking its situation and climate, he decided to make his
home here and has since been a resident of this city. In partnership with his
brother, he started a real estate, loan and insurance business, which has grown
to be the largest in the Hood River valley. After a few years his brother
removed to Portland and is there engaged in the same business on his own
account.

John M. Culbertson has sold more valuable land and has been the means of
bringing more settlers to Hood River than any other man in the county, and in
the matter of making loans, the funds at his disposal have more than once saved
many a farmer and orchardist who might have gone under had it not been for the
financial assistance rendered by Mr. Culbertson. His own land holdings in the
Hood River valley comprise some six hundred and ten acres of fine land, laid out
to orchard, hay and strawberries, the produce procuring a ready market at all
times.

In civic matters Mr. Culbertson is as prominent and practical as in business
life. He is a director of the Hood River Commercial Club, in the affairs of
which he takes a warm interest. He was an excellent worker in all the bond and
Red Cross drives during the World war, and in other directions gave of his time
and ability to further the public welfare. He is an earnest member of the
Congregational church and internally is identified with the Elks, the Masonic
order and the Sons of the American Revolution, being entitled to the last named
honor through one of his ancestors being an officer in the war of the
Revolution.

In 1910 Mr. Culbertson was united in marriage to Miss Mary Rothrock, a native
daughter of Oregon and a graduate of the University of Oregon. They are the
parents of one child, Mary Alene, not yet of school age. Mr. and Mrs. Culbertson
are prominent in the social life of Hood River and give their practical support
to all movements having the welfare of the community at heart.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in November 2006 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. 
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.