Bio:
Howard Zoroaster Culver, the eldest son and second child of Zoroaster and Sarah Haywood Culver, was born at Hopkinton, New York, 3 May, 1827. He was educated at St. Lawrence Academy, Potsdam, New York, and at Franklin Academy, Malone, New York. He entered business with his father as farmer and merchant at Hopkinton; removing in 1855 to Chicago, where he embarked in the bookbinding and stationery business with Daniel W. Page. The firm became afterwards, Culver, Page & Hoyne, and later, Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co.; they went out of business in 1883. Mr. Culver's first wife was Sarah Emmeline Foster, whom he married at Stockholm, New York, 8 October, 1850. She was the daughter of Timothy and Lydia Mooar Foster of Andover, Massachusetts. They had two children. She died at Cincinnati while on a journey with her husband, and lies buried at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. Howard Z. Culver's second wife was Mrs. Emma Chapman Boykin, the widow of Robert Boykin, an officer in the Confederate service during the Civil War; and the daughter of John Chapman of Orange, Virginia. They were married at Orange, 3 November, 1890; settling afterwards at Glymont, Maryland.
Source: Colver-Culver Genealogy: Descendants of Edward Colver of Boston, Dedham, and Roxbury, Massachusetts, and New London, and Mystic, Connecticut; Frederic Lathrop Colver; F. Allaben genealogical Company, 1910.
Courtesy of Richard H. L. Chichester, III (#46953186)
Howard Zoroaster Culver, the eldest son and second child of Zoroaster and Sarah Haywood Culver, was born at Hopkinton, New York, 3 May, 1827. He was educated at St. Lawrence Academy, Potsdam, New York, and at Franklin Academy, Malone, New York. He entered business with his father as farmer and merchant at Hopkinton; removing in 1855 to Chicago, where he embarked in the bookbinding and stationery business with Daniel W. Page. The firm became afterwards, Culver, Page & Hoyne, and later, Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co.; they went out of business in 1883. Mr. Culver's first wife was Sarah Emmeline Foster, whom he married at Stockholm, New York, 8 October, 1850. She was the daughter of Timothy and Lydia Mooar Foster of Andover, Massachusetts. They had two children. She died at Cincinnati while on a journey with her husband, and lies buried at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. Howard Z. Culver's second wife was Mrs. Emma Chapman Boykin, the widow of Robert Boykin, an officer in the Confederate service during the Civil War; and the daughter of John Chapman of Orange, Virginia. They were married at Orange, 3 November, 1890; settling afterwards at Glymont, Maryland.
Source: Colver-Culver Genealogy: Descendants of Edward Colver of Boston, Dedham, and Roxbury, Massachusetts, and New London, and Mystic, Connecticut; Frederic Lathrop Colver; F. Allaben genealogical Company, 1910.
Courtesy of Richard H. L. Chichester, III (#46953186)
Bio:
Howard Zoroaster Culver, the eldest son and second child of Zoroaster and Sarah Haywood Culver, was born at Hopkinton, New York, 3 May, 1827. He was educated at St. Lawrence Academy, Potsdam, New York, and at Franklin Academy, Malone, New York. He entered business with his father as farmer and merchant at Hopkinton; removing in 1855 to Chicago, where he embarked in the bookbinding and stationery business with Daniel W. Page. The firm became afterwards, Culver, Page & Hoyne, and later, Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co.; they went out of business in 1883. Mr. Culver's first wife was Sarah Emmeline Foster, whom he married at Stockholm, New York, 8 October, 1850. She was the daughter of Timothy and Lydia Mooar Foster of Andover, Massachusetts. They had two children. She died at Cincinnati while on a journey with her husband, and lies buried at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. Howard Z. Culver's second wife was Mrs. Emma Chapman Boykin, the widow of Robert Boykin, an officer in the Confederate service during the Civil War; and the daughter of John Chapman of Orange, Virginia. They were married at Orange, 3 November, 1890; settling afterwards at Glymont, Maryland.
Source: Colver-Culver Genealogy: Descendants of Edward Colver of Boston, Dedham, and Roxbury, Massachusetts, and New London, and Mystic, Connecticut; Frederic Lathrop Colver; F. Allaben genealogical Company, 1910.
Courtesy of Richard H. L. Chichester, III (#46953186)
Howard Zoroaster Culver, the eldest son and second child of Zoroaster and Sarah Haywood Culver, was born at Hopkinton, New York, 3 May, 1827. He was educated at St. Lawrence Academy, Potsdam, New York, and at Franklin Academy, Malone, New York. He entered business with his father as farmer and merchant at Hopkinton; removing in 1855 to Chicago, where he embarked in the bookbinding and stationery business with Daniel W. Page. The firm became afterwards, Culver, Page & Hoyne, and later, Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co.; they went out of business in 1883. Mr. Culver's first wife was Sarah Emmeline Foster, whom he married at Stockholm, New York, 8 October, 1850. She was the daughter of Timothy and Lydia Mooar Foster of Andover, Massachusetts. They had two children. She died at Cincinnati while on a journey with her husband, and lies buried at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. Howard Z. Culver's second wife was Mrs. Emma Chapman Boykin, the widow of Robert Boykin, an officer in the Confederate service during the Civil War; and the daughter of John Chapman of Orange, Virginia. They were married at Orange, 3 November, 1890; settling afterwards at Glymont, Maryland.
Source: Colver-Culver Genealogy: Descendants of Edward Colver of Boston, Dedham, and Roxbury, Massachusetts, and New London, and Mystic, Connecticut; Frederic Lathrop Colver; F. Allaben genealogical Company, 1910.
Courtesy of Richard H. L. Chichester, III (#46953186)
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