The Pipersville Stovers - Samuel and Anna Beidler Stover

Samuel Stover (1804-1888) and  Anna Beidler Stover (1808-1893)


Samuel was born in Pipersville and attended the Doylestown Academy with his brothers. He married Anna Beidler (1808-1893) of Plumsteadville on 20 December 1836, in East Vincent Church, East Vincent Township, Chester, Pennsylvania. 

That same year he bought the house and the mill from his father for $8,000. He installed a turbine to replace the waterwheel added an up and down saw to mill lumber and improved the mill again in 1862. Samuel and Anna had two daughters: Susan who died in infancy and Eliza Beidler. 

Detail from the Atlas of Bucks County, 1891

Bucks County Map in 1891

Landscape Image of House and Mill

Late 1800s view of the land around Stover Myers Mill

Notebook page from Samuel Stover Journal

Samuel Stover Signature page

Notebook page from Samuel Stover Journal

Samuel Stover School work