Bios: ADAM MORRISON HOPE, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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       ADAM MORRISON HOPE,
   
   [p. 512] a representative farmer of North Beaver Township, residing on
   his fine farm of eighty-eight acres, located just east of the Hope
   schoolhouse, which is located on a part of his farm, was born in
   Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, on an adjoining farm, August 13, 1825. He
   is a son of John and Betsey (McKibben) Hope.
   
   The first of the Hope family to settle in North Beaver Township was
   James Hope, who came in 1800, and two years later came Adam Hope, the
   grandfather of Adam Morrison. He came here from Westmoreland County,
   Pennsylvania, in 1802, and settled on the farm which his grandson now
   owns. At that time little clearing had yet been done in this section and
   Adam Hope cut down trees, cleared out the brush, put the rich soil in
   excellent condition and made a large number of the improvements which
   make this old farm a comfortable one on which to live. The remainder of
   Adam Hope's life was spent on this place. He was of the sturdy old
   pioneer type and became a man of standing in his section.
   
   John Hope, father of Adam M., was born on this old homestead farm and in
   early manhood he married a daughter of Hugh McKibben, who was also an
   early settler who had come to Lawrence County from Center County to
   survey land. He was pleased with the conditions he found in North Beaver
   Township and took up 400 acres for himself. The wife of John Hope was
   born and reared on the farm now owned by G. A. Martin. The father of Mr.
   Hope died on the home farm and the mother passed away subsequently at
   Petersburg, Ohio.
   
   Adam Morrison Hope was mainly reared on the farm which lies just west of
   his own. He learned the carpenter trade when he was a young man, but
   later purchased a farm and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He has a
   nice property and a well stocked farm.
   
   In 1851 Mr. Hope was married to Mary Ann Rock, who was born and reared
   in Springfield Township, Mahoning County, Ohio. She is a daughter of
   George and Elizabeth (Young) Rock. They were farming people in Mahoning
   County, where their lives were spent. To Mr. and Mrs. Hope nine children
   were born, namely: Eliza Jane, who died when aged twenty-one years;
   Rachel, who died when aged fourteen years; Martha Ellen, who married Eli
   Sipe, and they have one daughter, Eva, who is the wife of Floyd Johnson,
   and they have one daughter, Olive; Clara; Viola, who married James Reed,
   and they have two daughters, Mary Ilga and Hilda Vesta, and the latter
   is the wife of Louis Gailey, the former of whom is the wife of David
   Woods; Mary Adella, who married Robert Hope, and they have one daughter,
   Jane Marie, wife of James Edward Hamill, and they have a daughter,
   Florence Muriel; Florence Belle; John, who married Janet Woods, and they
   have four children, William Earol, John Harold, Rebecca Marie and
   Elizabeth Woods; and William Henry, who married May Musser. They have
   two children, Helen Gertrude and Grace Viola. Mr. and Mrs. Hope have two
   grandchildren, little Florence Muriel Hamill and Olive Johnson.
   
   Mr. and Mrs. Hope have resided on this farm since May, 1862. They are
   members of the Westfield Presbyterian Church, of which he has been an
   elder for forty years, being the oldest man in that congregation both in
   years and in point of service.
   
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   20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
   Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
   Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
   
   Updated: 31 Oct 2001