This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZKB.2ACE/417.3 Message Board Post: In 1878 John G. Covington was an Attorney, Notary Public, and Proprietor of the Acarde Hotle and Livery Stable. He died in 1920 and had sold the hotel shortly before that. This comes for the book The History of Middletown. Hope this helps.