Frank Morgan Covell was the son of Morgan Covell and Laura Chamberlain He was born March 12, 1851 in Ridgebury Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Frank came to California by 1871 and settled in the Santa Cruz area. His interest in genealogy is evidenced by his 1918 hand-written account of the family that details military service by his ancestors in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.

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This bio for Frank Covell taken from a blog post written by Kathryn Doyle and published in the CGS blog on 20 September 2010. Frank Covell was featured in the Spring 2011 edition of The Nugget – Frank Covell: California Pioneer and Family Historian by Georgia Lupinsky and Virginia Turner.

Frank was a member of the California Genealogical Society. His research and records were donated to our manuscripts collection in March 2010. The collection contains vital, deed and probate records, obituary and news articles, family correspondence, mementos, many original photos and portraits, school yearbooks, pedigree charts and family history files on the Covell and Coover families and related lines. It was compiled by Leah Jeanette Porter Gainer, great-granddaughter of Frank Marion Covell and Ann Eliza Peffers, granddaughter of Archer Morgan Covell and Leah Coover, daughter of Leah Jeanette Covell and Homer Porter. Mrs. Gainer died December 29, 2007.

The collection includes references to the following surnames: Aronen, Chamberlain, Chisolm, Coleman, Coover, Covell, Farum, Finley, Gainer, Gammon, Holway, Kane, Maki, Peffers, Porter, Quinn. The family geography includes: California, Connecticut, Kentucky, Ohio, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

CGS Volunteer Stewart Traiman created a comprehensive list of the documents in this collection and scanned selected ones that are both not in copyright and which don’t involve personal information on living people. The listing includes links to those images.

Covell Collection Expanded Finding Aid

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