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STEPHEN CULVER, a citizen of the town of Ellery in good standing, is a son of Asahel and Abigail (Brown) Culver, and was born in the town of Ellery, Chautauqua county, New York, October 6, 1826. The Culvers were originally of English extraction and came to the United States during the period of New England colonization. His paternal grandfather, Jesse Culver, was a native of eastern New York, where he passed his life and finished his career. He was a farmer by occupation and a Quaker in his religious professions. Asahel Culver, father of Stephen, was also a native of eastern New York, but removed at an early period to the town of Ellery, Chautauqua county, where he purchased a farm, improved and cultivated it and finally died. The date of his death is the year 1842. Simultaneous with his farm work, he carried on the trade of blacksmithing, which he had learned in early manhood. In politics he was an old-line whig, while in religion he was hereditarily a Quaker. Mr. Culver was twice married, the subject being his son by his last wife. His wife, Abigail Brown, was born in the town of Queensbury, Warren county, New York, and died in the town of Ellery, Chautauqua county, in 1862, at the ripe age of seventy-five. She was a woman possessing many good qualities of mind and heart, of Quaker ancestry and prominently identified with all forms of religious and moral advancement.

Stephen Culver gained his education through the instrumentality of the public schools, learned the trade of blacksmithing and has since devoted himself to the hammer and forge with a marked success. He at present owns and operates a shop in the village of Ellery, where he has a good and increasing trade. He also owns a pleasant home in the village and is surrounded with many of the comforts of life. Mr. Culver throws his support and influence toward the Republican party, in the welfare of which he takes a deep and active interest. His wife, by his first marriage, was Caroline M. Barnes, by whom he had three children: James, Olive, (deceased) and Fred (deceased). His wife by his second marriage was Ida Roman, who bore him one child: H. Leah Culver, now living.

Stephen Culver is a man of moral and religious nature, though not a member of any religious denomination. He belongs to the order of the Equitable Aid Union and is well and widely known through his charitable and generous disposition.