Howard County IN Archives Biographies.....Goyer, Edgar V. 1875 - 1900
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com April 21, 2006, 7:18 pm

Author: Jackson Morrow

EDGAR V. GOYER.

     The subject of this review is a representative farmer and stock grower of
Howard township, Howard county, and he is known as one of the alert, progressive
and successful young agriculturists of this favored section of the Hoosier
state. In his labors he has not permitted himself to follow in the rut in a
blind, apathetic way, but has studied and experimented and thus secured the
maximum returns from his enterprising efforts, while he has so ordered his
course at all times as to command the confidence and regard of the people of the
community in which he lives, being a man of honorable business methods and
advocating whatever tends to promote the public welfare in any way.

    Edgar V. Goyer was born in Howard county, Indiana, June 10, 1875, and,
believing that better opportunities were to be found right at his own door than
in other fields of endeavor, he preferred to remain on his native hills, and
judging from the success he has achieved here one must conclude that his
decision was a wise one. The parents of the subject are Vesspassian and Lucy
(Remington) Goyer. Grandfather Goyer was a native of Pennsylvania, who moved to
Howard county, Indiana, where he settled about 1856. He secured some unimproved
land. He built a log cabin here and began clearing the land, transforming it
into a valuable farm on which he lived until well advanced in years. He was a
Republican and well known in his community. He was an old man when he was called
from his earthly labors, and his good life companion was also well advanced in
years when she passed away several years after her husband's death. They were
the parents of nine children, all of whom grew to maturity.

    The father of our subject, who was born in Pennsylvania, came to Indiana
before the Civil war. He secured one hundred and sixty acres of land which he
cleared, improved and made an excellent farm of. Here he raised his family and
spent the remainder of his days, dying at the advanced age of eighty-seven
years. His early life was spent in Pennsylvania where he became fairly well
educated, later being able to successfully teach several terms of school. He was
an active member of the United Brethren church, having been a class leader,
Sunday school superintendent and a teacher in the same. He was also a fine
musician and a teacher of music. He was noted for his upright, conscientious
Christian life and he was highly respected by all who knew him. The subject's
mother, who is still living at the age of seventy-five years in 1908, was also
an active member of the United Brethren church and she has been a Christian
woman in all that the term implies. Eleven children were born to the subject's
parents, nine of whom reached maturity.

    Our subject attended the district schools and worked on his father's farm
during his youth, and he has lived on a farm all his life. After his marriage he
rented ground of his father on the grain share for five years and then bought a
farm on which he lived and devoted his attention for three years. He then sold
out and bought the farm of one hundred and twenty-two acres on which he has
since lived. This farm has been placed in a high state of productiveness through
the superior skill of Mr. Goyer. It is one of the best improved farms in the
township, and a modern and commodious residence has been built by the owner,
also an up-to-date and convenient barn has been recently built: many other
splendid buildings adorn the place. All the fields are under an excellent system
of drainage: the fences are mostly of wire. The soil of this fine farm is as
productive as it was when the subject first took possession of it. He rotates
his crops in such a manner, clover every third year, that the soil never grows
thin and he uses all home fertilizers but no commercial fertilizing material.

    Mr. Goyer carries on a general system of farming, feeding all the corn
raised on the place to hogs and other stock; his favorite breed of hogs being
the Poland-China. Needless to add that the subject has been successful in
farming from the first, and he is regarded as one of the most progressive and
painstaking agriculturists in Howard township, using rare judgment and foresight
in all his undertakings and seldom makes a mistake in his calculations.

    Mr. Goyer was united in marriage in September, 1896, to Maud Hostetter, the
accomplished daughter of Monteville and Maria A. (Green) Hostetter. There has
been no issue to this union.

    Mr. Goyer is a Republican in politics, but never has aspired to office.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/howard/bios/goyer364nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/

File size: 5.3 Kb