Harry H. Culver

(1880-1946) born in Milford, Seward County, lived in Crete and Lincoln. Real estate developer, business executive, founder of Culver City, California in 1913, a major production center housing studios such as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Lorimar, Columbia, and Sony Pictures; donor of land on which Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles was built. Consult American Magazine, Vol 97 (February 1924) 50-51, 184, 186 and Nebraska Alumnus, March 1924, pp. 80-81 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, June 26, 1949, p. C-20 and Julie Lugo Cerra, Culver City, the Heart of Screenland (Windsor Publications, 1992) 22-23.

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