BIO: George 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 CLEVER, farmer, P. O. Cleversburg, was born in this county 
January 4, 1819, son of Conrad and Catherine (Walters) Clever, natives 
of Lancaster County, Penn., of German descent.  Conrad Clever was 
brought to this county when he was six years of age, and was raised 
here.  He chose farming and lumbering as his occupation, and was very 
successful.  He died in 1861, at the advanced age of eighty-one years.  
He had filled most of the town offices.  He was a man of large stature 
and noted for his great strength, a man of unblemished character.  Of 
his four sons George is the youngest.  Our subject was brought up on 
the farm; has made farming and lumbering the principal business of his 
life, and has also engaged largely in the manufacture of iron and in 
shipping iron ore.  In 1850 George Clever laid out the town of 
Cleversburg, this county, and in the same year he embarked in 
mercantile trade, in connection with his other business.  He now owns 
several stores in different parts of Pennsylvania, and also several 
farms, as well as real estate in Cleversburg and other places.  Mr. 
Clever was married, in 1845, to Miss Isabella Kelso, a sister of Maj. 
Kelso, of Shippensburg, Penn., and a daughter of Samuel and Catherine 
(Stough) Kelso, who were of Scotch-Irish descent.  To Mr. and Mrs. 
Clever have been born eight children, of which four are living:  
Conrad, a minister of the Reformed Church, in Baltimore, Md.; Samuel 
K., residing at home; George G., married and a resident of Southampton 
Township, Penn.; and Jennie S., residing at home.  Our subject and wife 
are members of the Reformed Church, Shippensburg, in which he has been 
deacon and trustee for many years.  In politics he is a Republican, but 
not a politician.  He has served one term as jury commissioner.