BIO: GEORGE COOVER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 443-444
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    GEORGE COOVER, farmer and stock raiser of Southampton township, Cumberland
  county, where he occupies a well-improved place of fifty acres, descends from
  an old Cumberland county family. He is the oldest surviving son of Martin and
  Mary (Newcomer) Coover, who were the parents of ten children, eight of whom
  lived to maturity.
    
    Mr. Coover was born Sept. 14, 1848, on the Ridge road, in Southampton
  township, passed his boyhood on the farm, and was trained to agricultural
  pursuits. He attended school off and on until his seventeenth year, receiving
  his education at the Thomas Grove district school, and then remained on the
  farm, assisting his father, until he reached his majority. During the next
  two years he worked at the carpenter trade in Cumberland and Franklin
  counties, and after his marriage he lived two years on rented property
  adjoining the farm he now occupies, farming the place. Thence he moved to the
  Ridge farm (the place where he had passed his boyhood and which was one of the
  three farms owned by his father), where he spent fifteen years. His present
  place contains fifty acres, and is highly improved and equipped with
  excellent buildings, including a brick dwelling, a large bank barn and
  numerous outbuildings. Mr. Coover is an intelligent, industrious man, and his
  work shows good results.
    
    In 1888 Mr. Coover married Miss Anna R. Cope, of Cumberland county, a
  descendant of Conrad Cope, a native of Germany, who married a French woman
  previous to his emigration to the United States. Benjamin Cope, son of
  Conrad, was born in 1780 in Lancaster county, Pa., and in 1782 moved with his
  parents to Cumberland county, this State. In 1799 he settled on a farm at
  Springfield, West Pennsboro township, same county, which he afterward sold.
  He married Sarah Ann McDowell, who was born in 1789 in West Pennsboro
  township, daughter of Samuel McDowell, a native of Ireland. Samuel Cope, son
  of Benjamin, and father of Mrs. Coover, was born July 14, 1822, in the
  village of Springfield, West Pennsboro township, and is still living. On Jan.
  2, 1849, he married Rebecca Shriver, who was born in Cumberland county, Pa.,
  daughter of William and Sarah (Williams) Shriver, who came from Wales. Mrs.
  Cope passed away in 1896. She was the mother of six children, five of whom
  attained maturity, namely: James H.; Margaret V.; William
    
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  B., who died in 1879 in Dickinson township, Cumberland county: John Calvin,
  of Dickinson township; and Anna R., Mrs. Coover, who is the youngest of the
  family.
    
    Mr. and Mrs. Coover are the parents of six children: Samuel M., W. Clyde,
  James Hervey, George E., Shriver L. and Helen E. Mr. Coover is a member of
  the Reformed Church, and a liberal contributor to its support. In political
  sentiment he is a Republican.