RICHLAND COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: HOOVER, William H. (d. 1946)
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from the News Journal  Mansfield, Ohio July 18, 1946

W. H. Hoover, Retired Educator, Dies at Home on Poplar Street

     William H. Hoover, 74, wellknown educator of Richland and Mahoning
County schools, died last night at his home, 426 Poplar Street,
following a lingering illness. 
     Born near Mansfield Sept. 10, 1871, Professor Hoover was the
founder of a Richland county Manual Arts and Agriculture school in 1913.
Two years ago he returned from Clearwater, Fla., where he had spent 10
years teaching.  
     In 1889 he enrolled in the now extinct Greentown Academy at
Perrysville.  Following graduation from the Ashland Normal College he
began teaching in the Madison township schools until 1892.  He also
received a diploma from the King's School of Elocution and Oratory,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
     In 1906 he visited the battlefields of the Civil War on research
work.  While in the south he taught in Charleston, Tenn., and later
served as instructor in the Bradley County Institute, near Chattanooga. 
In 1911 after attending Ohio Northern University, Professor Hoover
graduated from Ashland College.
     He was a member of the First Lutheran church of Mansfield, the
Teachers' Reading Circle, and the Kent Extension School.
     Surviving are his wife, Jane; one son Paul Hoover of Cleveland,
professor in Case School of Applied Science; one daughter, Mrs. Ruben
Dailey, of Stockdale, Mich.; one stepson, Ralph White of Mansfield; two
brothers, George H. Hoover, Samuel D. Hoover; one sister, Mrs. Fred
Frankeberger, all of Mansfield, and seven grandchildren.
     Funeral services will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Wappner
Funeral home in charge of Rev. Carveth P. Mitchell, pastor of the First
Lutheran church.  Burial will be at the Mansfield cemetery.


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