CULBERTSON, Robert H. - Putnam

Robert H. Culbertson, father of the Brazil postmaster, studied medicine and during the Civil war was a surgeon in the Eightieth Indiana Regiment, with the rank of major. He saw service in the Army of the Cumberland. After the war he located at Bowling Green in Clay County and practiced medicine there until 1877, when he moved to Brazil. He possessed a thorough knowledge of medicine, and his experience brought him to a position where he was regarded as one of the ablest doctors in Central Indiana. He was still in active practice at the time of his death, September 30, 1899. He is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis. Dr. Robert H. Culbertson married Eliza Wingate, and Charles W. was their only child.