Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Stover, Jacob
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Tinicum Township


   JACOB STOVER flour merchant, P.O. Erwinna, is a 
great-grandson of an emigrant from Rhenish Germany, who 
settled near Skipback, Montgomery county. His son, Jacob, 
joined the revolutionary army when quite young, driving a 
four-horse team belonging to his father, with stores for 
General Sullivan. He stayed until the close of the war. 
After his marriage he settled on the farm in Plumstead 
township, where he died, in the house now owned by his son 
Samuel, near the mill which he built. He was twice married. 
His second wife, Catherine, was the mother of Henry S. 
Stover, who was born October 17, 1786, and died in the house 
now occupied by his son, Jordan H., in 1873. He was a miller 
by trade, and built the grist and saw-mill at Point 
Pleasant, now owned by Ralph Stover. In 1831 he bought a 
property with mill site at Erwinna, from Thomas G. Kennedy, 
which property was formerly owned by William Erwin, Esq. The 
following year he moved with his family upon the property, 
and erected extensive four and saw-mills upon the same. He 
was an enterprising man and good manager, and accumulated a 
handsome property, which he divided between his four sons. 
He married Barbara, daughter of Isaac Stout, of Williams 
township, Northampton county. She died in 1862, aged 73. 
Their children were:  Salome (deceased), Ann (Mrs. Philip K. 
Fretz), Eliza (Mrs. Ralph Stover), Catherine (Mrs. John L. 
Jones), Emeline (Mrs. Dr. Isaac Stewart), and Jacob, Isaac, 
Henry, and Jordan H.   Jacob is the eldest son, and was born 
at Point Pleasant, October 14, 1817. When very young he was 
taken into his father's business, staying with him until he 
was thirty-three years of age, when he with his brother 
Isaac rented the saw-mill of their father, and engaged 
extensively in supplying hard wood lumber for the California 
trade. In 1860 he went on his farm, but four years later 
again went into the lumber business with his brother, 
continuing in the same until 1879. In 1886 he bought from 
his brothers, Henry and Jordan H., ÒThe Erwinna flour 
mills,Ó which were built by Henry S. Stover, their father, 
at which place he is now carrying on an extensive business 
in the manufacturing of flour and feed. In June, 1854, he 
married Mary E., daughter of Hugh and Matilda Capner, of 
Flemington, N. J.  They have four children, two sons and two 
daughters. Hugh C., the eldest son, a graduate of Yale 
college, in the department of law, and now a practicing 
lawyer of Philadelphia. John J., the other son, is now 
attending academical studies at Philadelphia. Like his 
father, Jacob Stover is an enterprising man. He is a heavy 
stockholder in the Alexandria Delaware Bridge company, and 
is its present president. He is recognized as one of the 
leading men in this part of the county.