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CHRISTIAN STOVER, a retired business man of Kulpsville, was born in Montgomery county, March 4, 1841, his parents being Jacob K. and Ann Stover. His grandparents were also residents of Montgomery county, the family thus being established here at an early day.

Christian S. Stover was a student in the public schools until twelve years of age, pursuing his studies in the fall and winter months, and in the summer seasons working on his father’s farm. At sixteen years of age he was apprenticed to learn harness-making. He then opened a shop in Kulpsville, which he conducted for thirty-eight years, retiring in 1898. Mr. Stover merely looks after his property in Kulpsville, where he owns eight houses and his store, which he rents. He served nine months in the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, as a private in Company C, in Civil war times. In politics he is a Republican.

He married Sarah Rosenbury, of Kulpsville, in 1869. They had four children, of whom two are living-Alvirda R., single, and at home; and Cordelia, married Walter Kindig, and they have two boys, Jerrold D. and Walter Curtis, The two children deceased were Jennie, who died when eight years of age, and Linford, who died when eighteen years of age. He was a painter of some note.