When Charles David Culver was born on 3 February 1916, in Cherry Valley, Winnebago, Illinois, United States, his father, Charles B Culver, was 40 and his mother, Mary Adams Culver, was 35. He married Dorothy Edith Hegberg Culver on 6 September 1964. He lived in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States for about 34 years. He died on 23 October 1990, in Belvidere, Boone, Illinois, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States.
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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