BIO: William Coover, 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 LIX.

                         UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

565  UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

  WILLIAM COOVER, farmer, P. O. Shepherdstown, was born, in 1818, on 
the Coover homestead, in this county, and is the fourth son of Deitrich 
and Catharine (Cocklin) Coover.  Dederich Coover, the grandfather of 
our subject, was born in Lancaster County, Penn., August 20, 1745; was 
a blacksmith by trade; and in 1772 engaged in business in Upper Allen 
Township, and for many years did a large credit business, as is 
attested to by the ledger in possession of William Coover.  The first 
entries in this book were made in May, 1772.  All the accounts were 
closed and the book balanced in 1791, at which time he was expecting to 
reap a large reward for his labors, but, unfortunately, he received his 
pay in Continental money, which was carefully treasured up until it 
became worthless, and his prospects for a competence were rudely swept 
away.  Dederich Coover's first marriage, June 2, 1768, was with Maria 
Hauk, and his second union, February 12, 1822, was with Salome Horning, 
who lived almost a century.  At the time of the Whisky Insurrection in 
Pennsylvania, Deitrich (William's father) was working at the forge in 
Harrisburg, and Gen. Washington, who, with a detachment of cavalry, was 
passing, stopped to have some horses shod.