When William Henry Olver was born on 15 May 1846, in Aldenville, Clinton Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William Aunger Olver, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Ann Hopkins, was 22. He married Ida Marian Buckland on 30 October 1878, in Aldenville, Clinton Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Dyberry, Dyberry Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Carbondale Township, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He died on 24 May 1917, in Union, Broome, New York, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Endicott, Broome, New York, United States.
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English (Cornwall and Devon): variant of Oliver .
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