Harry Culver, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American real estate developer and promoter
Date of Birth: 22-Jan-1880
Place of Birth: Milford, Nebraska, United States
Date of Death: 17-Aug-1946
Profession: entrepreneur
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Harry Culver
- Harry Hazel Culver (January 22, 1880 – August 17, 1946) was a real estate developer and promoter.
- He was born in Milford, Nebraska, the middle child of five of Jacob H.
- and Ada L.
- (Davison) Culver, who lived on a farm.
- At age 18, he enlisted in the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal and sergeant.
- After attending liberal arts college Doane College for a year, Culver studied business at the University of Nebraska for 3 years.
- From 1901 to about 1904, he worked in the Philippines in the mercantile business and as a reporter for the Manila Times and special customs agent.In Manila he wed Eunice Richardson of Lincoln, Nebraska.
- He began working in real estate in Southern California in 1910 for Isaac Newton Van Nuys. In 1913, in a speech at the California Club in Los Angeles, Culver announced his plans for what was to become Culver City.
- Local voters rejected the land's annexation to LA in 1914, whereupon Culver founded the Culver Investment Company.
- Supported by a 59-0 vote, Culver City became incorporated on September 20, 1917, with a population of 530.
- Once the president of the California Association of Realtors, Culver served as president of the National Association of Realtors in 1923.
- The following year, he moved his offices to the second floor of Hotel Hunt, now named the Culver Hotel, the building of which he also supported.
- Culver served locally in elected office and promoted the city with picnics, leading tours with box lunches, and advertising "All Roads Lead to Culver City".
- Culver served locally in elected office before his death in Hollywood, California.
- Advertising Culver City as "See this model little white city, scarcely a year and a half old." (LA Herald March 12, 1915).
- In 1927 he oversaw the issuing of the following opinion which makes it explicitly clear what he meant.
- "The Los Angeles Realty Board recommends that Realtors should not sell property to other than Caucasian in territories occupied by them.
- Deed and Covenant Restrictions probably are the only way that the matter can be controlled; and Realty Boards should be interested.
- This is the general opinion of all boards in the state."
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