When Elgin Clarence Stover was born on 4 December 1900, in Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, his father, Elgin Henry Stover, was 36 and his mother, Jane Nancy Walker, was 26. He married Mildred Eloise Merkley on 1 September 1927, in Westport, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1900. He died on 22 April 1929, in Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 28, and was buried in Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada.
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Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
North German (Stöver): from Middle Low German (bad)stover ‘bather, barber, worker at a public bathhouse’, mainly an occupational name, but occasionally perhaps a nickname for a dedicated bather. Compare Stoever .
English: variant of Stopher with intervocalic voicing of /f/ to /v/.
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