James Karl Stover

Male15 June 1914–12 July 2006

Brief Life History of James Karl

When James Karl Stover was born on 15 June 1914, in Pennsburg, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James Duckworth Stover, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Deysher Schultz, was 24. He lived in Wyoming, Hamilton, Ohio, United States in 1930. He died on 12 July 2006, in Rutherfordton, Rutherford, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States.

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James Karl Stover
1914–2006
Ruth I Mohr
1917–1975

Sources (16)

  • Karl J Stover in household of James Stover, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Ohio Marriage Index, 1970, 1972-2007
  • U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946

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World Events (8)

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Age 2

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

1918 · Fort Bragg Established

Age 4

Named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg, Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina was established on September 4, 1918. It was used as one of three training camps used during WWI.

1941

Age 27

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

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/.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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