Andrew R. Culver (1832–1906, aged 74) was the president of the

Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad The Culver Line, Gravesend Avenue Line, or McDonald Avenue Line was a surface public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running along McDonald Avenue and built by the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad. Most of its main l ...

. The line came to be known as the "Culver Route" or "Culver Line", and the name is still in use: the elevated line that replaced it, and the newer subway line that connects to it are today called the Culver Line.http://www.nycsubway.org/lines/culver.html

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Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation 19th-century American railroad executives 1832 births 1906 deaths {{US-rail-bio-stub