Biographical Sketch of William W. Coover, Greene County, Missouri, 
Brookline Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Mr. Coover is the son of S. H. and Catherine (Wilhelm) Coover, and was
born at Vandalia, Montgomery County, Ohio, September 16, 1850.  His
parents moved to Iowa, and settled near Muscatine in 1857, where they
lived about nine years, and then came to Springfield, Greene County,
Missouri, where his father was a contractor and builder for some time.
William W. was educated in the common schools of the county.  His first
mercantile employment was with Sheppard & Co., in Springfield.  After
being in their employ three years, they put him in charge of a stock of
goods at Brookline, he receiving one-third of the profits.  In 1875 he,
with his father and John Potter, sold goods for themselves at the same
place.  In 1878, Mr. Coover moved to Republic, and opened the same line
of goods in partnership with M. P. Johnson, a commercial traveler, who
continued to travel, and Mr. Coover managed the business.  At the end
of three years that partnership was dissolved, and now Mr. Coover owns
the whole business.  Besides his merchandising Mr. Coover deals largely
in grain, shipping last year about one hundred thousand bushels of 
wheat.  Mr. Coover was married December 27, 1876, to Miss Mary E.,
daughter of S. F. Gibson, of Brookline.  Their union has been blest
with one child, Samuel Clyde.  Mr. Coover is one of the staunch busi-
ness men of the county, and enjoys an enviable reputation.

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