Stover, Emanuel

Born: 1828-04-07 Franklin County, Pennsylvania

Died: 1890-04-24 Lanark, Illinois

Flourished: Lanark, Illinois

Emanuel Stover, farmer, banker, and politician, moved to Illinois in 1853. That spring, Stover and J. P. Emmert founded a brokerage business, naming it E. Stover and Company, which lasted until 1856. Stover also engaged in farming at this time. He served as a postmaster at Lanark from July to December 1861. From July through October 1862, Stover served in Company B of the Seventy-First Illinois Infantry as a second lieutenant. After the Civil War he was elected to the Illinois General Assembly as a Republican.

In January 1856, Stover married Sarah I. Moffet in Carroll County, Illinois. The couple had four children, two of whom died in childhood.

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