BIO: Enoch Staver, 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 XLVIII.

               HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF NEWBURG.

  ENOCH STAVER, wagon-maker, Newburg.  John Staver, the grandfather of 
our subject, emigrated from Germany as early as 1795, in company with 
two brothers, and all settled in Lancaster County, Penn.  One was a 
minister, another a lawyer, and the third, John, was a farmer.  He was 
married probably a few years after his arrival, for his son John was 
born in 1797 and Samuel in 1799, following whom came Solomon, Emanuel 
and two others.  Of these, Samuel married Elizabeth Rudy, in 1821, by 
whom he had ten children:  Matilda, Lydia, Sophia, Lucy, Nancy, Fanny, 
Rudy, Enoch, Samuel and John, all of whom were born and reared in 
Lancaster County, Penn.  In 1841, Samuel Staver sold his farm and came 
with the most of his family to Cumberland County, settling near the 
line of Franklin County, on the farm now owned by Andrew Gross.  Later 
he disposed of that tract and moved to Newburg, remaining there until 
his death in 1882, his 

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wife preceding him four years.  Enoch, son of Samuel Staver, was born 
in 1831; learned the wheelwright's trade in Orrstown, Penn., with 
Solomon Bashore, commending in 1847.  He was married to Susannah, 
daughter of Adam Hamshoer, of Franklin County.  Their married life was 
commenced in the village of Newburg, and continues to this date in the 
same social manner as when their troth was plighted.  They have had six 
children:  Alonzo, James, Harvey, Cora and Charles are living, and Mary 
died in childhood.  Alonzo married Bertie Saucher, James married Fanny 
Glosser, Harvey married Sallie Lautsabaugh.  For thirty-three years Mr. 
Staver has been a coach and wagon-maker in Newburg, his brother Felix 
being a blacksmith next door.  He has in his possession a brass kettle 
which had been the property of his grandmother, and has been an 
heirloom in the family for 153 years.  Our subject has been several 
times elected to official positions in the village and township, in all 
of which he has well discharged his duties.