Eusebius Fernando McCulloch was born on October 16, 1861, in Guilford County, North Carolina. McCulloch served as chief clerk of the prison board during the administrations of Governor Locke Craig (1913-1917) and Governor Thomas W. Bickett (1917-1921) and was tapped by Bickett's successor, Governor Cameron Morrison, to serve as the superintendent of the state prison. He died in Raleigh on May 3, 1921, just a few months in to his term.