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HENRY P. GAVER.     Henry P. Gaver, former trustee of Union township and the proprietor of a farm of ninety-six acres on which he is now living retired, in that township, is a native of the state of Maryland, but has been a resident of Ohio since 1883.  He was born in Fredericks county, Maryland. Aug. 11, 1853, son of John P. and Elizabeth (Kleine) Gaver, both natives of that same county, who spent all their lives there.  John P. Gaver, who was a farmer, was a son of Peter Gaver, a native of Germany, who located in Fredericks county, Maryland, upon coming to this country and there became an extensive landholder, owner at one time, it is said, of all the northern half of that county.  Peter Gaver was a man of unbounded hospitality and generosity and it is said that he gave away all but a small portion of his land to deserving families of the community in which he lived. John P. Gaver and wife were the parents of eleven children, of whom eight are still living, John T., George T., Elias, James L., Charles L., Henry P., Louisa and Rebecca.       Reared on the home farm in Fredericks county, Maryland, Henry P. Gaver received his schooling in the schools of that neighborhood and early learned the cooper's trade, following that trade during the winters and farming during the summers and was married there in 1877.  In 1883 he came to Ohio and began working as a cooper at Dayton, later starting as a tobacco farmer in that vicinity, and remained there until 1887, when he moved to a farm in Miami county.  Four years later he moved to Parke county and was there engaged in truck gardening for several years, at the end of which time he came to Champaign county and rented a farm in Salem township, making his home there for five years.  He then bought the farm of ninety-six acres in Union township on which he is now living and continued engaged there in general farming until after the death of his wife in the spring of 1916, since which time he has been living retired from the active labors of the farm, though continuing to make his home there.  Mr. Gaver has a well-improved farm, having two sets of buildings on the place, and is one of the substantial citizens of that section of the county.  He is a Democrat and has taken an interested part in the civic affairs of the community and served for some time as trustee of Union township.      1877, in Maryland, Henry P. Gaver was united in marriage to Catherine Hurley, daughter of Moses and Mahala (Stottlemeyer) Hurley, and by thisunion eleven children were born, namely:  Charles, who married Myrtle Geyton and has four children, Melvia, Bernice, Cecil and Thelma; Luther, who married Margaret Moody and has one child, a son, Kenneth; Minta, wife of Frank Woods; Della, who married Dr. David Bowen has four children.  Catherine, Rollin, Ruth and Carris; Maude, who married Howard Mumma and has four children, Margaret, Richard and Donald; Bert, who married Nellie Williams and has three children, Christina, Leona and a son; Walter, who married Mabel Faulk and has two children, Mary and  daughter, and Clarence, Gladys and Marjorie.  The mother of these children died in April, 1916. Source:  History of Champaign County, Ohio, Vol. II - publ. 1917 - Page 133

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