Abel Atherholt Stover (1842-1915) owned and operated a livery stable near the present Doylestown train station. In the 1871 Business Directory & Gazetteer of Bucks County his advertisement stated:
Passengers conveyed to any part of the country at moderate charges.
NPRR [North Pennsylvania Railroad] Depot
Stover was born and grew up on the family farm in Haycock Township. He married Anna Maria Slotter (1844-1939) in Doylestown, and they had three children. In 1874 the family was living a large stone twin house at 94 S. Clinton St. In 1883, Stover served as postmaster at the Mechanicsville Post Office in Buckingham Township; and in 1893 he also served as postmaster at the Edison Post Office in Doylestown Township.
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