Henry Harrison Culver

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Henry Harrison Culver (1840-?) was an American businessman and founder of what would become known as the Culver Academies. Born in Ohio, Henry Harrison Culver started a cooking range company with two of his brothers, incorporated in 1881 as the Wrought Iron Range Company in St. Louis.

The company was very successful and Culver amassed a substantial fortune. After becoming ill, Culver retired in 1883 to the north shore of Lake Maxinkuckee, close to the childhood home of his wife, Emily Jane Hand, of Wolf Creek. In 1894 Culver founded a college preparatory school on his property near Lake Maxinkuckee, which is now known as Culver Academies.