The Hugh McCulloch House

The Hugh McCulloch House was built in 1843 from the design of architect Henry Williams. A native of Kennebunk, Maine and a Boston-trained lawyer, Hugh McCulloch came to the pioneer village of Fort Wayne in 1833 with a letter of recommendation from Daniel Webster. He became a Judge of the Probate court in 1834, and in 1835 he was named Cashier and Branch Manager of the newly-formed State Bank of Indiana. , McCulloch married Susan Man in 1838. A native of Plattsburg, New York, Susan Man was one of the first school teachers in Fort Wayne, having come at age [unreadable] … , … Comptroller of the Currency. It was from this assignment that McCulloch launched the national banking system. Two years later, in 1865, President Lincoln named him to be Secretary of the Treasury, a position he also held in the administrations of Presidents Johnson and Arthur. He was the last person to whom President Lincoln wrote before the assassination and was at the President's bedside when he died. , McCulloch served as the United States Ambassador to Great Britain before he died in 1895.