[p. 760] a successful general farmer residing on a valuable property of seventy acres, which lies at the cross roads where the Mt. Jackson, Enon, Petersburg and Moravia highways meet, was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1862.
Mr. Hope was reared to the age of fourteen years in Wilmington, Township, Mercer County, and then came to New Wilmington, Lawrence County, where he served an apprenticeship to the printer's trade. He started in the office of the New Wilmington Globe, when that journal was first organized, and remained in that office for four years, and subsequently worked five years in the office of the Cleveland Leader. He then returned to Lawrence County and engaged in farming. On November 8, 1887, he was united in marriage with Adella M. Hope, who is a daughter of A. M. Hope, of Lawrence County. They have one daughter, Jane Marie, who is the wife of James E. Hamill, who is a son of William Hamill, all well-known residents of this section. Mr. and Mrs. Hamill have a little daughter, Florence Muriel. This fortunate little maiden has three great-grandmothers and a great-grandfather. One of the grandmothers is the mother of Mr. Hope, Mrs. Sabina C. Glover, who is a daughter of James Hope, an early settler of North Beaver Township. She has a half interest in the farm and resides on it. Mr. Hope and family belong to the Westfield Presbyterian Church.
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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