Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Hoover, David July 4, 1823 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glapha Cox rcoxfam@earthlink.net January 14, 2006, 4:52 pm Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884) Wayne Township p. 788 & 789 David Hoover, son of David Hoover, Sr., was born July 4, 1823, in Wayne County, Ind., in the house where he now resides. He was reared on the home farm, and obtained a fair common-school education. He was married in 1858 to Phoebe L., daughter of Seth and Rebecca (Simmons) Macy. They have three sons--- Andrew, born Oct. 20, 1861, married Florence Fulghum; Henry I., born Jan. 15, 1864, and David S., born Dec. 25, 1871. Mr. Hoover has followed farming through life and now owns a highly cultivated farm. His views are independent both in politics and religion. His great-grandparents, Andrew and Mary Hoover, immigrated from Germany and settled in Maryland, where they resided many years, and where our subject's grandfather, Andrew Hoover, Jr., was born in 1740. In 1850 they removed to North Carolina, where Andrew was reared, and married Elizabeth Waymire. Of their ten children only one survives---Sarah, who married Jacob Sanders. Those deceased are---Mary, wife of Thomas Newman and mother of John S. Newman; Elizabeth, who married William Bulla; David, who married Catherine Yount; Frederick, who married Catherine Yount, David's wife's cousin; Susannah, who married Elijah Wright; Henry, who married Susan Clark; Rebecca, who married Isaac Julian, and was the mother of the eminent statesman George W. Julian; Andrew, who married Julia Ratliff, and Catherine, who married John McLane. Andrew Hoover, Jr., moved with his family to Ohio and resided near Lebanon four years, but ague being so prevalent there they resolved to see the then new territory of Dearborn, now Wayne County, Ind., and in the spring of 1806 David Hoover, Sr., entered the land now owned by our subject and the following spring the family settled in their new home, where Andrew Hoover, Jr., died at the age of eighty-four years, his wife having died one year previous, at the age of eighty-one years. David Hoover, Sr., was born in North Carolina in April, 1781. He subsequently resided in Ohio, where he was married in 1806, and in 1807 settled in Wayne County, Ind. He was for many years Justice of the Peace, and for fourteen Clerk of Wayne County. He was for many years Associate Judge of the county, and represented Wayne County in the State Legislature many terms. He died in his eighty-sixth year in 1866. His wife died in her seventy-sixth year. They had ten children, seven still living- --Elizabeth, wife of S. T. Powell; Hiram, married Mary Price; Susan, wife of Wm. Brady; Sarah, wife of Benjamin Hill; Isabel, wife of J. M. Brown; Esther, wife of Henry Shroyer and our subject. Those deceased are---Mary, Rebecca and William. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/wayne/bios/hoover99gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb