When David Pulver I was born on 2 May 1809, in New York, United States, his father, Peter H Pulver, was 23 and his mother, Elizabeth Washman, was 20. He had at least 3 sons and 1 daughter with Lydia Pulver. He lived in Milo, Yates, New York, United States in 1850. He died in 1884, at the age of 75, and was buried in Windfall Cemetery, Tompkins, Delaware, New York, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Historical Boundaries 1823: Yates, New York, United States
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
German, Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German pulver ‘ash, dust’ (of Latin origin), German Pulver ‘powder’; a metonymic occupational name for an apothecary or herbalist who dispensed various types of medicinal powder. From the 15th century it may alternatively have denoted a manufacturer of gunpowder.
Possibly also a shortened form of Flemish Van Pulver: habitational name for someone from a place called Pulver (meaning ‘dust’; compare 1 above), for example in Wormhout in West Flanders.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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