Hartwell Carver

Dr. Hartwell Carver (July 19 1789 – April 16, 1875) He participated in the hammering of the Golden Spike that officially joined the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads on May 10, 1869 at Promontory, Utah.

His historic home in Pittsford sold in 2018 for $1,179,000.

Carver was interred at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York under a 50-foot (15.24 m) monument erected by the Union Pacific Railroad. The monument is the second tallest in the cemetery. The inscription reads:

Carver was erroneously described on the monument at his grave, as well as by local histories, as the great-grandson of John Carver, who came over on the Mayflower and was the first governor of Plymouth Colony, while this purported ancestor actually had no descendants.