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William McCulloch (Australian politician)

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He founded stock agents McCulloch, Campbell and Company with James Callender Campbell (1838–1916) around 1868, and were shortly joined by Joseph Major Pratt (1834–1917). When McCulloch retired it became Campbell Pratt and Co., then Campbell and Sons in 1887. These businesses were closely tied with
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He joined McEwan and Co. as traveller and storekeeper. He noted the business opportunities offered by the lack of transport in the bush and established a carrying business with his brother in 1861, which carried huge quantities of wool from the
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for Victoria (the incumbent had died the previous March), and also took time to visit Scotland and Ireland. He only returned to his home state in early October, having been re-elected to the Legislative Council while away.
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Finding his lucrative Riverina wool-carting business losing to the cheaper and quicker (comparatively) river steamers, he founded a paddle-steamer shipping service
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On 9 July 1897 his second daughter Helen Mary married Colonel H. A. Eagar ( – ca.18 February 1900), who died of injuries sustained at
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in 1873 By 1877 it was one of the largest carriers on the Murray-Darling system, comparable with Francis Cadell's
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McCulloch married, in Scotland in 1860, Catherine Vans Agnew Christison, with whom he would have seven children.
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in 1882 and serving until his resignation in 1903. He was minister without portfolio (1894–1895), then succeeded
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cattle, starting by importing the English bull "Rapid" in 1873, many more in 1879. He purchased
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Kirk's Horse Bazaar, which was largely responsible for supplying horses to the omnibus company.
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as Minister for Defence (1895–99, 1900–1901), a function which became redundant with the
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Youngest daughter Catherine Vans Agnew McCulloch died 19 December 1936.
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He was chosen as the representative of the State of Victoria for the
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to Samuel McCulloch and his wife Helen, nÊe McWhinnie, he arrived in
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He acquired pastoral property around 1870 and bred "Bates tribe"
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Elder son Samuel (ca.1862 – 16 December 1933), was a lawyer of
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Australian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
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Son Colin Christison McCulloch was owner and trainer of
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This trade was in turn overtaken by the newly emerging
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Companion of the Order of the St Michael and St George
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The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 – 1946)
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Index

CMG
Victoria
Wigtownshire
Melbourne
Mount Alexander
Riverina
Port of Melbourne
Melbourne Omnibus Company
Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company
River Murray
River Murray Navigation Co.
railway network
shorthorn
coursing
Melbourne City Councillor
Victorian Legislative Council
Eastern Province
Gippsland Province
F. T. Sargood
Federation
Minister for Health
Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra
Agent-General
Stormberg
Boer War
Crowlands
Woodend
Caulfield Cup
Companion of the Order of the St Michael and St George
Crowlands

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