Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Hoobler, William 1807 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   William Hoobler, farmer, Veedersburg, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1807, and
came to Fountain county with his mother in 1828. His parents, Jacob and Margaret
Hoobler, were both natives of Pennsylvania. The former died when William was but
six years old, aged sixty years. The latter emigrated to Ohio in 1826 in company
with a number of the Hoobler family, where she remained till she came here in
1828, bringing five children, four of whom are still living, three in Illinois,
and William in Van Buren township, two and a half miles north of Chambersburg.
Margaret Hoobler died in 1860, at the ripe old age of eighty-five. William
Hoobler's great paternal grandfather emigrated to America from Germany some time
after the war of the revolution. His grandfather, John Hoobler, was a native of
Pennsylvania, and died in Ohio. His maternal grandfather, Michael Brown, was a
native of Germany. William Hoobler and his relatives, as a rule, were and are
strict church-going people, most of them members of the United Brethren. He has
filled all the offices in the church belonging to the laity, and is an ordained
minister in the same, and rode as circuit preacher some two years of his life,
but disliking pastoral life he discontinued it. He now lives on his farm of 122
acres, which is in a good state of cultivation. He is an active supporter of
temperance and all moralizing institutions.

Additional Comments:
Van Buren Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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