California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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DAVID M. CULVER. Having been a tiller of the soil during his active career, David M. Culver, of 
Goleta, is numbered among those sturdy, energetic, and successful farmers who thoroughly 
understand the vocation which they follow, and are carrying it on with profit and pleasure. A 
native of Canada, he was born, April 10, 1851, in Norfolk County, Ontario, where his parents, 
Gabriel M. and Martha (Cullver) Culver, were then living.
Beginning his school life in his native town, David M. Culver completed his studies in the public 
schools of Kalamazoo, Michigan, after which he spent five years in the lumber camps of 
Northern Michigan. In 1875, realizing that the far West had greater opportunities for young 
men of industry and ambition, he made his way to Santa Barbara County, and not many months 
later was fortunate enough to obtain a position on the noted More ranch in Goleta. His services 
being appreciated, Mr. Culver was subsequently given charge of the ranch, and continued its 
supervision for twenty consecutive years, a record that bears witness to his efficiency and 
fidelity in that capacity. In 1898 Mr. Culver purchased, in Goleta, his present ranch of nineteen 
acres, all of which he devotes to the raising of walnuts, an industry that keeps him fully 
occupied, and proves exceedingly lucrative.
Mr. Culver has been twice married. He married first in 1884, in Goleta, Miss Jennie Kellogg, 
who lived but five short years after her marriage, dying in 1889, and leaving one child, Edgar 
Culver. In 1894 Mr. Culver married for his second wife Miss Martha Tucker, and of their union 
two children have been born, Ruth and Mildred. Politically Mr. Culver is a stanch supporter of 
the principles of the republican party. Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows, and of the Knights of Pythias. Religiously he belongs to the Federated Church of 
Goleta.