Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Hoover, John P. 1828 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 February 6, 2009, 9:36 am Author: Hardin & Willard Hoover, John P., Fairfield, was born in Manheim in 1828 and has followed farming all his life. His great-grandfather came from Switzerland. His grandfather was Jacob Hoover and his father William Hoover. In 1861 Mr. Hoover married Catherine Ryan, a daughter of Joseph Ryan, and they have a family of eleven children, five sons and six daughters. Mr. Hoover is a Democrat. His father was at Sackett's Harbor in 1812 and was given a grant of government land. Mr. Hoover has 132 acres of land and a herd of twenty-four cows. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/hoover844gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb