David Ezekiel Hover

As printed in 1906

DAVID EZEKIEL HOVER, a well-known resident of Shawnee township, where he carries on general farming and stock-raising on his estate situated in sections 14 and 15, was born November 22, 1837, in an old Indian cabin in Shawnee township, and is a son of Manuel Hover.

Ezekiel Hover, the grandfather of our subject, with his brothers, Emanuel and Joseph,’ who at an early date had removed from Pennsylvania to Trumbull County, Ohio, settled in Allen County in May, 1833. All married members of the Adgate family. The children of Ezekiel and Sarah (Adgate) Hover were: Emanuel, born May 18, 1808; Maria Belinda, born December 15, 1809, who married Abraham Boyd; Sarah Ann, born February 9, 1818, who married Amos Alvord; Caroline, born March 28, 1814, who died young; St. Clair, born September 13, 1815; Charles Adgate, born May 13, 1818; Newton, born December 18, 1820; Columbia Ann, born October 7, 1827, who married George Lathrop; and William Ulysses, born March 18, 1830.

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Ann. The latter was "born in August, 1839. She taught school at Lima in 1861. and 1862, married John. Hanson and died in 1881.

In 1840, at the death of his father, David E. Hover went to live with his grandfather, residing with the latter and an. uncle until 1860. On December. 18th of this year he married Susan Boyd, who was born in Mahoning County, Ohio, and died in 1886. She was a daughter of- John Boyd, who moved from Mahoning to this county. The five children of the above marriage were: Charles Adgate, born November 22, i86i„who resideson a farm adjoining hisfather; Frank- M., born October 13, 1863, who died October 8, 1865; a third child, who died in infancy; Margaret Arina, born March 3, 1868,. who resides at home; and Howard B., born March 3, 1868, who is a druggist at Lima.

After their.marriage Mr. and Mrs. David E. Hover commenced housekeeping in the old Shawnee Council House, but two years later came to the present farm in sections 14 and 15. The land was partly, cleared, but Mr. Hover has made all the improvements. He has given much attention to the growing of sheep, and shortly after the Civil War, in 1870, sold wool at 90 cents a pound. He is one of the township’s reliable citizens, and at various times, has been appointed to a number of honorable positions. Since 1895 he has been a trustee of the Children’s Home. He is secretary and clerk, as well as trustee, of the Shawnee Cemetery. Politically he is a Republican, and cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln.

As printed in History of Allen County, Ohio, and representative citizens (1906). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.