BIO: ALEXANDER STUART COOVER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 483-484
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     ALEXANDER STUART COOVER, who is engaged in farming and poultry raising
  near Shippensburg, in Cumberland county, was born April 2, 1856, on the old
  Jacob
      
      484  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
      
  Coover homestead in Southampton township, that county, part of which he now
  owns.
      
      Mr. Coover is the second son of Jacob and Mary E. (Renshaw) Coover, the
  former of whom was born in 1816, in the eastern part of Cumberland county,
  and descended from a pioneer family of the Cumberland Valley. He became a
  successful farmer, widely and favorably known as one of the most enterprising
  and intelligent men of his day in Southampton township. He married Mary E.
  Renshaw, who was born on the Ridge road, in Southampton township, Cumberland
  county, about 1825, and died in 1873. She, too, was a representative of a
  worthy old family of the county. The father passed away Jan. 19, 1891.
      
      Alexander Stuart Coover was reared a farmer boy, and in his early youth
  attended the local district school. He continued with his father until 1889,
  when he married, and he and his wife took up their residence on a part of the
  old homestead, Mr. Coover subsequently purchasing a part of the Meyers farm,
  containing fifty-five acres. He has his place well equipped with good
  buildings, including a substantial bank barn, dwelling, sheds and all other
  necessary outbuildings, most of them built by Jacob Coover, his grandfather.
  Alexander S. Coover takes great interest in the details of up to date
  farming, paying as much attention to good stock, hogs, cattle and horses, and
  to improved farm machinery, as he does to the actual work of the farm, and the
  appearance of the place speaks volumes in favor of his methods. He takes rank
  deservedly with the most intelligent and progressive agriculturists of his
  neighborhood.
      
      In 1889 Mr. Coover married Miss Emma Shoap, of Mt. Holly, Cumberland
  county, daughter of David and Rebecca Shoap, and they are the parents of two
  children, Iva and Roy. Mr. Coover is a Republican in political faith, and he
  takes considerable interest in the success of his party. His wife is a member
  of the Bethel Church at Shippensburg.