Covington was born in Berlin, Maryland, and attended the common schools as a youth.
He pursued a higher education at Buckingham Academy, and later at Harvard Law School.
There is another George Washington Covington, a wealthy merchant and resident of Still Pond, Maryland, alive at the same time.
A Democrat, he went back to life as a country lawyer in Snow Hill, and died in New York City April 6, 1911.
Born in Middletown, Del., in 1834, he became a Kent County storekeeper by way of Baltimore, and lived in Still Pond most of his long life.
W. Covington, a prominent druggist of Still Pond, died on Wednesday (Jan. 31) afternoon age 83 years.
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The 1830 census shows Nathaniel Covington, head of family in St. Georges Hundred, Del.
His father, Carl Strandberg was a prominent Chestertown resident, a baker and businessman, who in 1828 had his name changed from Charles Stanley.
In the 1850 census, in Chestertown, elderly Carl Strandberg was living with Maria (28), Daniel (9) and Ann (5) Haines.
It was a one-acre slice of Hynson's land at the "cross roads" that Covington bought in March, 1862.
Typical of the time, the property description reads, "Beginning at a stone set opposite the back door of the black Smith's Shop...." There were easements on two sides for public roads.