Biographical Sketch of D. W. Hoover, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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D. W. Hoover, liveryman, of Mansfield, Mo., was born in Webster County
of that state in 1855.  His father, Jesse Hoover, was born in North
Carolina, and there married Amanda Cross, and came to Missouri in 1854,
locating in Webster County.  He was a farmer, and his union with Miss
Cross resulted in the birth of eleven children, all of whoim are living
at the present time.  The grandparents on both sides were from North
Carolina, and were prosperous tillers of the soil.  D. W. Hoover was
reared in Webster County, and was educated in the common schools.  At
the age of eighteen years he was married to Miss Martha Winningham, a
native of Tennessee, and by her has three children: Amanda, Samuel and
Walter.  Mrs. Hoover died in 1880, and Mr. Hoover took for his second
wife Miss Mollie Jenkins, of Missouri, born in 1860.  They have four
children: Stella, Ada, Sophia and Gus.  Mr. Hoover farmed in Webster
county until 1881, when he sold out, and opened a livery stable at
Seymour, which he managed for a number of years.  On coming to Mans-
field he bought out the livery firm of Spence & Rippee, and has been
sole proprietor ever since.  His stock is valued at about $3,200, and
he does a large annual business.  Mr. Hoover is a Republican in his
political views.

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