China
Upon his graduation in 1844, Culbertson was ordained by the Presbyterian Church and was sent as a missionary to China by the American Presbyterian Mission. He was stationed in Ningbo from 1845 to 1851 and in Shanghai from 1851 to 1862, where he acted as member of the Committee of Delegates on the revision of the Old Testament. Culbertson later withdrew from the Committee of Delegates and co-published a variant of the "Delegate's Version" with Rev. Elijah Coleman Bridgman in 1855, with the help of Episcopal Bishop William Jones Boone. He died of cholera in Shanghai in 1862.
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