BIO: George H. Clever, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER LVII.

                         SOUTHAMPTON TOWNSHIP.

546  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  GEORGE H. CLEVER, retired farmer, P. O. Cleversburg, was born in this 
county on the farm where he now resides, son of George and Elizabeth 
(Hippensteel) Clever, natives of Southampton Township, this county, of 
German descent, former a farmer.  Our subject now owns the farms where 
his parents were born.  Our subject's father was born in 1790, and his 
mother in 1800.  His grandfather, Barnhart Clever, was an early pioneer 
farmer of this county, and the deed given him by William Penn, in 1788, 
is now held by George H. Clever.  At the time this deed was made out 
Southampton Township was called Hopewell Township.  Our subject, the 
fourth child and only son in a family of six children, has followed 
farming as an occupation, and now owns 621 acres of land.  He was 
married, in 1849, to Sarah, daughter of Adam Warner, who was a farmer 
and of German descent a native of Pennsylvania.  The children of this 
marriage are Elizabeth, wife of George Miller; Cyrus, a farmer in 
Franklin County, Penn.; Emily, wife of William B. Bowers; Susan, wife 
of John C. Raybuck (he is a farmer in Franklin County, Penn.); Henry 
E., married and a farmer, and Samuel A., attending school.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Clever are members of the United Brethren Church, of which church 
he has been class-leader and trustee and has been superintendent of the 
Sabbath-school.  He has also been an exhorter for several years.  Mr. 
Clever is an earnest advocate of the cause of Christ, and has done much 
good.  He votes the Democratic ticket, and has served his township as 
justice of the peace for fifteen years.