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Elias Sleeper Stover

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Elias Sleeper Stover

Birth
Saint George, Knox County, Maine, USA
Death
3 Feb 1927 (aged 90)
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
Burial
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA Add to Map
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Section: 6 Family, Plot: 10 W 1/2 (Stover Family Plot)
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St. George, Lincoln County, Maine, was included in Knox County at its inception in 1860, which is why Mr. Stover is seen as sometimes born in Lincoln County and other times in Knox. The 1900 census and some bios have him born in the month of November 1836. There are no dates or first name on his cemetery marker.

Father: Sea Captain Hezekiah Stover b: 26SEP1802 in St. George, Knox, Maine
Mother: Mary Pillsbury b: 1809 in Ash Point, Maine

First trained to navigate like his father

Called "Governor" because he had been the (Lt)Gov of Kansas where he'd also served in 2nd Regiment Infantry and Cavalry during the Civil War (Pension Certificate #1069831); was also an Indian Agent and bank director in Kansas

First president of the University of New Mexico, 1889; created the Manzano Gold Mining Company with several partners the previous year

Married Susan Gage and had son Roderick who was an electrical engineer who died in 1919, leaving widow Louise Valentine Harris Stover and children Queenie Stover Baca (first married to George Lawrence Robertson and had daughter Susan Gage Robertson) and Henry Elias Stover.

In 1910, the family built the mansion still standing at Central (Route 66) & Park west of 8th Street in Albuquerque. Married Margaret Zearing in 1920.

Was at least as "famous" as several others in the historical section of Fairview AND he was the first owner of Fairview Cemetery!
St. George, Lincoln County, Maine, was included in Knox County at its inception in 1860, which is why Mr. Stover is seen as sometimes born in Lincoln County and other times in Knox. The 1900 census and some bios have him born in the month of November 1836. There are no dates or first name on his cemetery marker.

Father: Sea Captain Hezekiah Stover b: 26SEP1802 in St. George, Knox, Maine
Mother: Mary Pillsbury b: 1809 in Ash Point, Maine

First trained to navigate like his father

Called "Governor" because he had been the (Lt)Gov of Kansas where he'd also served in 2nd Regiment Infantry and Cavalry during the Civil War (Pension Certificate #1069831); was also an Indian Agent and bank director in Kansas

First president of the University of New Mexico, 1889; created the Manzano Gold Mining Company with several partners the previous year

Married Susan Gage and had son Roderick who was an electrical engineer who died in 1919, leaving widow Louise Valentine Harris Stover and children Queenie Stover Baca (first married to George Lawrence Robertson and had daughter Susan Gage Robertson) and Henry Elias Stover.

In 1910, the family built the mansion still standing at Central (Route 66) & Park west of 8th Street in Albuquerque. Married Margaret Zearing in 1920.

Was at least as "famous" as several others in the historical section of Fairview AND he was the first owner of Fairview Cemetery!

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