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Below is a family biography included in the Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania published in 1904 by T. S. Benham & Company and The Lewis Publishing Company; Elwood Roberts, Editor. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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CHRISTIAN STOVER, a retired business man of Kulpsville, was born in Montgomery county, March 4, 1841, his parents being Jacob K. and Ann Stover. His grandparents were also residents of Montgomery county, the family thus being established here at an early day.
Christian S. Stover was a student in the public schools until twelve years of age, pursuing his studies in the fall and winter months, and in the summer seasons working on his father’s farm. At sixteen years of age he was apprenticed to learn harness-making. He then opened a shop in Kulpsville, which he conducted for thirty-eight years, retiring in 1898. Mr. Stover merely looks after his property in Kulpsville, where he owns eight houses and his store, which he rents. He served nine months in the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, as a private in Company C, in Civil war times. In politics he is a Republican.
He married Sarah Rosenbury, of Kulpsville, in 1869. They had four children, of whom two are living-Alvirda R., single, and at home; and Cordelia, married Walter Kindig, and they have two boys, Jerrold D. and Walter Curtis, The two children deceased were Jennie, who died when eight years of age, and Linford, who died when eighteen years of age. He was a painter of some note.
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