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Matthew Simpson Culbertson

CULBERTSON, Matthew Simpson, clergyman, born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, 18 January 1818; died in China in August 1862. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1839, and served with the rank of second lieutenant of artillery at Rouse's Point during the Canada border disturbances, and as assistant professor of mathematics at the military academy. He resigned his commission, 15 April 1841, studied theology at Princeton, and upon graduation in 1844 was ordained as a missionary to China, and labored in that country until his death. He was engaged for several years in preparing a revised Chinese translation of the Bible (1855). He published "Darkness in the Flowery Kingdom, or Religious Notions and Popular Superstitions in North China" (New York, 1857).

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