The Newtown bee., 1906-11-30
LEVI A. SHOVE.

LEVI A. SHOVE. t
 Levi A. Shove, who died at his resi- dence in Brewster, N. Y., Thursday morning, November P, at o'clock, in the 52d year!of his age, was welliknown in New Milford and vicinity. To say that the announcement was surprise and shock is to put 1t very mildly. No other village life was nearer and dearer to more people. To this fact, not only those near his age, but those in youth and young manhood and of three score and ten and beyond, bear witness. Levi A. Shove was the sec- ond son of Hon Henry Erwin Shove of Warren. His mother was Fanny, Kent. His mother died in 1896. and his father died September IS of the present year. MT Shove was born in Warren in May, 1855. He came to Brewster when he was 20 years old and as the junior member of the firm of Richards & Shove embarked in the livery business at the Brewster House stables. The firm was not successful. MT Richards retired while MT Shove continued, the firm name being changed to H. E. Shove & Go. Then came the purchase of the liverybtables of Mills Reynolds, and another change in the firm to Baxter & Shove, which continued with great success until the death of MT Baxter. After the death of MT Baxter the Mahopac stables were leased, burned, rebuilt and con tfnued by MT Shove, in connection with the Brewster plant, which was also extended to include extra barns and farm for the sale of horses and extra space for the sale of carriages, harness, blankets and all kinds of horse goods. He was possessed of marvellous energy and kept everything moving until it turned into money or prom isSOry note. He was well known all along the Harlem, and in New York City and Buffalo. He also enjoyed pa trons in all the Connecticut towns bordering on New York, and he could dispose of car load of horses in any community almost as quickly as he where for everything carrying his guarantee, and business came his way as naturally as a flower unfolds toward the sun. He was interested in every village institution and in every phase of village life. He felt that helping everything around him was the surest way to help himself. It was not the things he cared for, but tue things afOrding the greatest pleasure to the greatest number which enlisted his support. In manifold ways he gave to those in need. The warmth of his nature would not let him resist any appeal. The benevolence and good cheer of his every day life impressed all who knew him. One of the ab1est and eldest of his friends, who has rubbed up against men in every station Of life in every nation underI the sun, a fNw hnrra after MT ChnuoSc 6oofh sent ito the sStandard the following frank and characteristic estimate of his character:
 No more we'll meet him on our village street, But taken fore and aft. wasn't he Q n an?
 A generous specimen of real American.
 His charity was wide, likelHim of Galilee.
 No canting hypocrite, or viler Pharisee, With suc6 as he, may be saved. or damned. Notwithstanding his vast business interests MT Shove found time to serve with considerable regularity as the village of Brewster, and also as a trustee of the Putnam County Savings bank, not only at stated meetings, but as examiner of securities and as a
 member of the loan committee. He
 was member of Brewster lodge, I. o.
 0. F., and also one of the oldest vol.
 unteers in the Brewster Fire depart
 ment, and kept always on call without
 charge to the village, team for serv-
 ice on the steam fire engine. In pol.
 itics he was republican. He filled
 many town offices, served six years al
 postmaster, and was for nearly 30
 years a member of district, town an6
 county committees. He was deeply
 interested in every campaign, and Onl
 of his last commissions was to place al
 the disposal of the republicans to gel
 out the vote on election day, ever!
 horse in his stables at Brewster an(
 Mahopac. His last trip away iron
 home was to Saratoga to attend th
 Republican State convention on tn 25th of September. He did not fee
 we'll at the time and returned hOm
 at evening. The next morning he wa at his place of business and sold fiv horses. He was able to go to his Offic for few hours each day until tn 29th, when weakness and chill due t
 the malady that finally ended his Tiff
 compelled him to keep within doors Soon after he embarked in bushes in Brewster, N. Y., he married Flor Howland,a a daughter of the late Ralpl Rowland, of Warren. The widow an
 one daughter, Miss Florence, survive
 He leaves, also, four brothers and on sister: John w., secretary of the Pen g insular Portland Cement Co.,, of Jack ] son, Mich; Edwin H., formerly CT
 gagged in the coal and lumber trade a ] Middletown, N. Y., now i'll at Warren
 Frank D., treasurer of Borden's Cor l densed Milk Co.,; Garwood w., an /, Mrs Jennie Beeman of Torringtor s l An uncle and amt, MT and MI
 Jealous Shove, live in Brewster. Al ? the relatives, notwithstanding hi . boundless giving everywhere, testif