Aaron H. Conover was born on 10. Jul. 1852 at Harrison Twp., Vigo County, Indiana. He was the son of
Ralph R. Conover and
Ellen Snedeker.
Aaron H. Conover appeared on the census of 29. Jun. 1870 at with his parents, Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana. He was a brick mason on 29. Jun. 1870. He married
Nettie Metcalf on 1. Nov. 1876 at Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana. Aaron H. Conover was shown in the census on 28. Apr. 1910 as a farmer.
Aaron H. Conover and
Nettie Metcalf appeared on the census of 28. Apr. 1910 at Harrison Twp., Vigo County, Indiana; 4 children, 2 living.
Aaron H. Conover and
Nettie Metcalf appeared on the census of 2. Jan. 1920 at Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana. Aaron H. Conover died on 30. Apr. 1920 at Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, at age 67. He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana. AARON CONOVER - The farm which Aaron CONOVER owns and operates is one of the historic ones of Vigo county and is the site of the county's first fair grounds. It was used by the soldiers during the Civil war, and Mr. CONOVER can yet recall to mind when the soldier boys bunked in the stable of the fair grounds. A small frame building still standing near his barn was used by the commissary, and it has a number of times in recent years been photographed by the soldiers. The old canal which was in operation in the fifties also runs through this historic farm, and as a boy Aaron CONOVER rode a mule up and down its banks. In those early days he was well acquainted with a negro who, unable to swim, often performed the feat of crossing the canal by wading in and crawling on the bottom to the opposite shore.
Aaron CONOVER was born in Harrison township, July 10, 1852, a son of Ralph and Eleanor (SNEDEKER) CONOVER, both of whom were born in New Jersey, the father in 1811 and the mother in 1821. The husband passed away in death in 1888, and the mother in February, 1908. They were married in New Jersey, and in 1840 came to Indiana and cast their lot with the early residents of Terre Haute, where the husband and father followed the trade of a brick mason for many years and many of the older brick buildings of the city still stand as monuments of his handiwork. His first work here was on the Terre Haute House. He was a Republican and both he and his wife were members of the Baptist church. Their eleven children were Aaron (first), deceased; William, also deceased; Jane, the widow of William MERRY; Harmon, deceased; Alfred, who resides on Seventh street, in Terre Haute; Daniel, deceased; Aaron (second), of this review; Belle, deceased; Gertrude, the wife of William MASON, who also resides on Seventh street, in Terre Haute; Eliza, the widow of Scott HOVEY, and Ralph, whose residence is on Third street, Terre Haute.
During his early life Aaron CONOVER learned the mason's trade of his father, and after following it as an occupation for five years he turned his attention to farming and gardening, now owning an estate of one hundred and twenty acres in Harrison township. At one time he was quite extensively engaged in the breeding of registered Jersey cattle and Berkshire hogs, but in recent years has followed farming and gardening exclusively. As a Republican he has been active in the public affairs of his community, and for an extended period served in the office of supervisor, his first term extending from 1881 to 1889, and was re-elected in 1903 and again in 1905, his term expiring on the 10th of December, 1907.
Mr. CONOVER married, November 1, 1876, Nettie METCALF, born at Paris, Illinois, in February 12, 1856. She was reared in her native city, and her parents dying when she was young, she came to Terre Haute, and it was here that her marriage occurred. Four children were born of the union, but the first born, Carl, born August 21, 1877, is deceased. Earl, the second son, born February 1, 1879, is a graduate of the high school and a commercial college in this city and of the Medical College of Louisville, Kentucky, and is now practicing his profession in Evansville, this state, one of the city's most prominent physicians. Warren was born December 21, 1880, and died at the age of five years. Beulah, the youngest of the family, was born March 13, 1889, and for four years was a student in the Catholic school at Oldenburg, Indiana.
GREATER TERRE HAUTE AND VIGO COUNTY
C.C. Oakey - 1908
Pp. 679-680
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