Background
Hover, William Adgate was born on March 9, 1856 in Mazomanie, Wisconsin, United States. Son of William Ulysses and Harriet (Harbaugh) Hover.
Hover, William Adgate was born on March 9, 1856 in Mazomanie, Wisconsin, United States. Son of William Ulysses and Harriet (Harbaugh) Hover.
Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, 1877. Special student School Mines (Columbia), 1877, 78.
Assayer, Lake City, Colorado, 1878. Retail druggist, Denver, 1879-1882. Became wholesale druggist, Denver, title of West. A. Hover & Company, senior partner, 1882-1937, Chairman of the Board, 1992.
President United States National Bank, 1904-1908, 17-23, Chairman of the Board, 1908-1917, now director
Director Mountain States Telephone & Telephone Company President Board of Supervisors, City of Denver, 3 years.
President several terms Denver Traffic Bureau, also as director Denver Chamber of C. and Commercial Association.
Member National Wholesale Druggists’ Association (president 1902-1903), Massachusetts Society Mayflower Descendants, Colorado Society South.R. (president 1909-1910), Phi Kappa Psi. Clubs: Denver, Denver Athletic, Pacific Coast.
Married Marianna Vought, September 1, 1886. Children: William Tracy, Mary Throckmorton, Ruth Grandin, Dorothy Adgate, Harriet Harbaugh, Anne Vought, James Throckmorton Vought, Charles Stedman, Lloyd de Barberie.