[p. 601] proprietor of Maple Shade stock farm, a valuable property containing seventy acres, which is located near New Bedford, Pulaski Township, is a prominent citizen of this section. Mr. Cover was born May 6, 1859, in Pulaski Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Henry R. and Esther A. (Shoaff) Cover. Jacob Cover, the grandfather, was an early settler in Lawrence County, where he acquired land and reared a family which has been a representative one ever since.
Henry R. Cover, father of Edward K., was born in Lawrence County and during the larger part of his life lived in Pulaski Township, where, at various times in a long and useful life, he held local offices of responsibility. He was a leading member and liberal supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In his political views he was a Republican. He married Esther A. Shoaff, who was also born in Lawrence County, and four of their children survive, namely: Edward K.; Sadie, who is the wife of Joseph Kuhn, of Pulaski Township; Maud, who is the widow of Frank Sheriff, and resides at New Bedford; and Frank W., who lives in Pulaski Township.
Edward K. Cover's educational training was such as could be secured in the public schools of Pulaski Township during his boyhood, and from that time until the present he has been interested in agricultural pursuits and has made a specialty for many years of breeding and raising Jersey cattle and the highest grade of trotting horses. The products of Maple Shade farm are well known all over Lawrence County and command high prices on account of their worth.
On December 3, 1885, Mr. Cover was married to Cornelia C. Duff, who was born in New Bedford, Lawrence County, and is a daughter of James H. Duff, who conducts a large undertaking establishment there. Mr. Duff was born in Pulaski Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, December 9, 1836, a son of William and Mary (Cowden) Duff, and a grandson of William Duff, who was born in Ireland and who was one of the earliest settlers in Mahoning Township, Lawrence County. James H. Duff followed carpenter and building work in Pulaski Township until 1873, when he engaged in the undertaking business at New Bedford. He was married December 11, 1860, to Mary M. Rogers, who was born in 1842, in New Bedford, a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Hedges) Rogers and a granddaughter of Samuel Rogers, who was a pioneer settler in what is now New Bedford. The children of James H. Duff and wife were: Cornelia C. and Charles C., the latter of whom is a resident of New Castle.
While Mr. Cover is nominally affiliated with the Republican party, he is quite capable of doing his own thinking and claims the right to cast his vote independently when his judgment leads him in any certain direction. He enjoys the full confidence of his fellow citizens and served for three years as township assessor, and in the spring of 1908 was elected road supervisor, for a term of three years. He is practical and enterprising and is numbered with the successful agriculturists of Pulaski Township.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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