Bio: Culver, E. W. (1881)
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---Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, pg. 207.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF E. W. CULVER.

E. W. CULVER, general manager of the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company, was born in Ashlabula, Ohio, April 15, 1839; came to Beloit, Wis., in 1855; lived there three years, then went to Freeport, Ill., where he resided for about twenty years; then went to Hannibal, Mo.; carried on lumber business in Missouri and Kansas until 1872; then came to Badger State Mills, and was afterwards one of the incorporators of the Badger State Lumber Company, and continued with that organization until 1877, when he became connected with the company which he now represents. In July, 1860, he was married in Freeport, Ill., to Mary Pencil, a native of Lewisburg, Pa. They have four children living—Edgar William, James, Hurbert A. and Joseph R.; lost two sons—one aged four years, the other two years, at lime of death.