From HISTORY OF THE PAN-HANDLE, West Virginia, 1879, by J. H. Newton, 
G. G. Nichols, and A. G. Sprankle. Page 263  

Contributed by Linda Cunningham Fluharty.


SAMUEL B. M'COLLOCH, clerk of the Circuit Court, Ohio county, is second son of 
John McColloch, a native of Logan county, Ohio, who was for thirty-two years 
clerk of the County Court of Ohio county, but who died on the 29th of May, 1862. 
He was also a relative of the famous Major McColloch, so prominently referred to 
in history for the daring horseback leap he accomplished near Wheeling, while 
being pursued by the Indians. Our subject's earliest experience in business was 
to fill a clerkship under his father, until 1860. He then went to St. Louis and 
filled the capacity of deputy clerk in the United States District Court under 
Thomas C. Reynolds, for some six or eight months. After returning home he found 
it necessary to proceed to New York, about which time the war broke out when he 
entered as a private in company F, New York Infantry, for eleven months service. 
Upon receiving his discharge he accepted promotion to First-Lieutenant of Fourth 
Virginia Infantry, after which he became Adjutant to the Fifth Virginia 
Infantry, and held that commission down to February, 1863, when he was ordered 
to report to General, now President Hayes, for staff duty, remaining in such 
until October of the same year. He was  
then ordered to report to General B. F. Kelly, commanding the department of West 
Virginia, at Clarksburg. From him he proceeded to Harper's Ferry under General 
Sullivan, and was discharged in 1865. He then followed steamboating and the 
insurance business, being elected clerk of the Circuit Court of Ohio county, in 
the fall of 1870, which office he still fills during a third term, with much 
ability and general satisfaction. He was married in September, 1863, to Sarah 
Jane, daughter of Thomas G. Culbertson, an old resident of Wheeling, but now of 
Martin's Ferry, and has a family of two daughters.