TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO - BIO: HOOPINGARNER, Arthur A. (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume V, page 384

        ARTHUR A. HOOPINGARNER, newspaper editor and publisher, is a
comparatively young man, has made his own way and contributed to the
support of others since boyhood, and has some real substantial work and
achievements to his credit. His home and business are at Dover, in the same
county where he was born and reared.
        Mr. Hoopingarner was born at Strasburg, Tuscarawas County, March
27, 1893. The Hoopingarner family was identified with the pioneer
developments of this Ohio county. His great-grandfather, Jacob
Hoopingarner, a native of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, was the first
settler of the name in Tuscarawas County. He married a Miss Balsey. The
name Hoopingarner is of Holland Dutch origin. Samuel Hoopingarner, a son of
Jacob Hoopingarner, was born in Tuscarawas County, and married Susan
Fitzgerald, a native of the same county and daughter of Thomas Fitzgerald,
who came from Ireland. William U. Hoopingarner, father of the Dover editor
and publisher, was born and reared in Tuscarawas County, and died at the
age of thirty-five. He married Sadie Smiley, who survives him. She was born
in Tuscarawas County and now lives at Columbus, Ohio. Her parents were La
Fayette and Mary (Jones) Smiley. Her two children are Arthur A. and Marguerite.
        Arthur A. Hoopingarner as a boy was under the necessity of going to
work for his own support and to assist his mother and sister. He spent his
boyhood at Dover, where he attended school to the age of fourteen. Soon
afterward he began learning the printer's trade in the newspaper office at
Dover Daily Reporter. He early attracted attention as a very skillful
reporter and journalist, and served four years on the editorial staff of
the Cleveland Press and for a time was managing editor of the Columbus
Monitor, and was then at Omaha Daily news until 1920. In that year,
returning to Dover, Ohio, he organized the Tuscarawas Publishing Company,
which became the owner and publisher of the Dover Daily Reporter and also
owns and publishes the weekly newspaper the New Philadelphia Advocate
Tribune. Mr. Hoopingarner is president and manager of the company and
editor of the Daily Reporter.
        He is a member of the Moravian Church, is affiliated with the
Knight of Pythias, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Rotary
and Union Country clubs. He married in 1915 Miss Viola G. Martin, of New
Philadelphia.





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