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Richard Coulter Jr.
Richard Coulter Jr. (October 3, 1870 – September 26, 1955) was a World War I general, a businessman, a professional football player and a banker.
Early life and career.
Coulter was born in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, the first of six children of Richard Coulter Sr. (1827–1908) and Emma Welty (1841–1929). His father Richard Coulter Sr. was a Major General in the American Civil War, a prominent business man in Greensburg, and founder of
Richard Coulter, Sr. was born in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, a son of Eli Coulter Jr. (1791–1830) and Rebecca Alexander. Eli Coulter was a prominent business man and managed a steam mill in Greensburg. Richard attended Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania. After leaving college in 1845 at the age of 19, he worked in the law office of his uncle, Richard Coulter (1788–1852) in Greensburg where he remained until the beginning of the Mexican–American War.
Coulter enrolled in the Westmoreland Guards