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Manuscript Group 320
EDWARD STOVER PAPERS
1857-1935
.5 cubic feet


The papers of Middletown lumber merchant Edward Stover (d. 1903) who built the Memorial United Brethren Church in Hummelstown in 1872. Most of the papers consist of business records such as agreements, bonds, insurance policies, leases, mortgages, a deed, and a release for property he owned and/or leased to tenants near Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. Information found includes the nationalities and races of his workers and a record of the wages paid for planting trees; setting posts; moving rocks; digging ditches; feeding cattle; threshing grain; and sawing, hauling, and carving wood on the Stoverdale Farms in Dauphin County. Notations appearing on some business accounts also reveal prices charged to customers for lumber and shingles. The materials dated after 1903 are the personal records of Edward Stover's wife, Mary, and his son, Edward, Jr.




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