When Webster Chapin Sylvester was born on 16 March 1864, in Newport, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Daniel Webster Sylvester, was 33 and his mother, Augusta Pauline Chapin, was 31. He died on 31 October 1865, in his hometown, at the age of 1.
English and German: from the Middle English and Latin personal name Silvester ‘dweller in the forest’ (a derivative of silva ‘wood’). The name was borne by three popes, including a contemporary of Constantine the Great, and seems to have been first used in England by clerics.
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