Frank P. Culver
Frank Pugh Culver (c. 1864 – June 26, 1949) was a Methodist minister who served as president of Polytechnic College, now Texas Wesleyan University.[1][2]
Born in Alabama, Culver received an M.A. degree from Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama in 1888, and thereafter entered the ministry.[1] His first pastoral assignment being at Wetumpka, Alabama.[2] In 1911, he moved to Fort Worth, Texas to become president of Polytechnic College,[3] a position he held or eighteen months before resigning,[1] "after declaring the situation of the college—which owed more than $60,000—to be hopeless".[4] He went on to hold numerous other pastoral positions, including a 12-year period of service as presiding elder of the Cisco, Fort Worth, and Waco districts of Texas.[1]
Culver retired from preaching in 1944, following the death of his wife.[2] Culver himself died in a hospital in Fort Worth following a heart attack, at the age of 85.[1] One of his sons, Frank P. Culver Jr., served on the Supreme Court of Texas.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Dr. Culver Dies; Funeral Rites At Forth Worth", Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light (July 1, 1949), p. 12.
- ^ a b c "F.P. Culver Sr., Ex-Minister, Is Dead at 85", Fort Worth Star-Telegram (June 27, 1949), p. 1-2.
- ^ a b "Judge Frank P. Culver dies at age 90", Fort Worth Star-Telegram (April 11, 1980), p. 3E.
- ^ June Rayfield Welch, The Colleges of Texas (1981), p. 88.