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.