When Roswell Culver was born about 1772, in Albany, New York, United States, his father, Benjamin Culver, was 26 and his mother, Tamar Brown, was 25. He married Lydia Hatch about 1793, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Dover Township, Athens, Ohio, United States in 1815 and Athens, Athens, Ohio, United States in 1830. He died after 1830.
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English (Kent): from Middle English culver, colver ‘dove’ (Old English culfre, Late Latin columbula, a diminutive of columba), which Reaney suggests was used as a term of endearment. It may therefore have been applied as nickname for a lovelorn youth or perhaps for someone who used the expression indiscriminately. Otherwise, it may have been a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of doves or a nickname for someone bearing some fancied resemblance to a dove, such as mildness of temper.
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