Willis DuBois Pulver Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: PULVER
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915
Page 1223

      WILLIS DU BOIS PULVER, a lawyer of well known ability, is one
of the foremost citizens of Salem Depot, was born in Luzerne, New York,
June 24, 1871, and is a son of Nathan and Estelle (Du Bois) Pulver.
      The Pulvers are of an old Holland Dutch family which became estab~
lished on Manhattan Island in the seventeenth century. Peter Pulver, great-
grandfather of the subject of this record, was for many years owner and
proprietor of the Pulver Hotel at Chatham, New York. His son, Henry Pul-
ver, was married to Susan Evans, and their children were Peter, Myron,
Nathan and Mary. 
      Nathan Pulver was born in Luzerne, N. Y., in 1855, and is a civil en-
gineer by profession. In addition to surveying, he is engaged in lumbering.
He has held all the town offices and for the past twenty-five years has been
judge of the local court. He also is town assessor at the present time. For
twenty years he has been on the Republican County Committee. He mar-
ried Estelle Du Bois, who is of French Huguenot stock, an ancestor, Louis

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Du Bois, having settled at New Paltz, N. Y., in the Wallkill Valley, where he
owned several thousand acres of land which he purchased from the Indians.
Nathan Pulver and his wife became parents of the following children: Wil-
lis Du Bois; LeRoy M., born September 2, 1873, who is an attorney in
Luzerne and also supervisor of the town; George, born in 1877, who is mar-
ried to Celia Cook; John W., born 1875, who died in 1906; Frank Dudley,
born in 1884, who is general manager of the electric light company at Lu-
zerne; Roscoe, born in 1886, who died in 1896; and Fred N., born in 1888,
who is assistant editor of Glens Falls Times. The last named married Ju1ia
Higgins and has a son Fred N.  LeRoy M. Pulver married Julia R. Barrett
and has three children - Russell, Mortimer and Catherine. Frank Dudley
Pulver married Edna Wilson and has two children - Lucile and James N.
      Willis Du Bois Pulver attended the public school and worked on his grand-
father's farm until he was sixteen years old. He then went to Glens Falls
Academy, paying his way by working at the carpenter's trade. He subse-
quently attended the law department of the University of Baltimore, and was
graduated with the class of 1898, receiving the degree of LL. B. Going to
Chicago, he was there employed in a law office, for one year, and at the end
of that period established himself in practice at Holly, Mich. His next move
was to Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1904, where he practiced two years. In
1906, he came to Salem Depot, where he was destined to become one of the
community's most active citizens. He has a large clientele and enjoys the
highest esteem of his fellow citizens in general. He has not been a seeker
for political preferment, but did serve two years as tax collector. He was
organizer of the Board of Trade, served the first year as secretary, and dur-
ing the past seven years has rendered efficient service as president of the
board. He also is one of the vice-presidents of the New Hampshire State
Board of Trade. He acted as Tribunal for the trial of local criminal cases
from 1906 to August, 1913.
      On September 24, 1912, Mr. Pulver was married to Miss Helen W.
Emerson, a daughter of Rufus and Grace E. Emerson, of Haverhill. To
them was born October 18, 1914, a daughter, Marjorie Estelle. Fratenally
Mr. Pulver is a member of Senat Lodge, No. 456; A. F. & A. M. of Glens
Falls; Glens Falls Chapter, No.56; Gedel Council No. 56 of Urichsvlle,
Ohio; Washington Commandery No.33, K. T., of Saratoga Springs, N. Y.;
and Bektash Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S., of Concord, N. H., of which he is a
charter member and is now Oriental Guide. He also is a member of Plaistow
Grange, West Rockingham Pomona, Pilgrim Fathers of Salem and the New
England Fat Men's Club.

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