OBIT: Daniel HOOVER, 1910, Huston Township, Blair County, PA

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DANIEL HOOVER

Aged and Well Known Piney Creek Resident Died at His Home in Huston 
Township Wednesday Night.

  Wednesday night, November 23, at 10:30, Daniel Hoover, one of the 
best known men in Huston township, died at his home on Piney Creek of a 
complication of diseases, after an illness of three weeks, in his 75th 
year of age.
  Mr. Hoover was a son of Jacob C. and Margaret Hoover and was born on 
Clover Creek, near Beavertown, July 28, 1836.  Seven years later he 
moved with his parents to Piney Creek.  In his early life he taught 
school a number of terms in the county.  During the summer season he 
attended normal schools preparatory to entering the Rensselaer 
Polytechinc [sic] institute at Troy, New York, but abandoned the idea 
and took up the study of surveying under Prof. J. L. Miller of 
Williamsburg in 1856, and at once took up the work which he followed 
regularly until February 18, 1865, when he enlisted in Co. E., 104th 
Regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, as a corporal and 
participated in engagements at Petersburg and Hatch's Run.  On August 
25 of the same year he was mustered out and honorably discharged. On 
his return to the Cove he resumed the profession of surveying which he 
continued until his last illness three weeks prior to his death.
  December 26, 1867, he was united in marriage with Miss Eliza Jane 
Rhodes when he began farming and followed that vocation all his life in 
connection with surveying.  His father died in 1885, when he took 
charge of the homestead farm and continued to live there the remainder 
of his life.
  Mr. Hoover's was a long and busy life and he was a useful man in many 
ways and will be greatly missed.
  For twelve years he was a member of the school board of Huston 
township and served as secretary.
  His funeral took place Saturday morning at 10 o'clock when services 
were held at the house, conducted by Revs. C. W. Warlick and B. B. 
Wenger.  Interment was made in Fairview cemetery, Martinsburg.
  Besides his wife eight children survive:  Essington, of Martinsburg; 
Newton of Piney Creek; John E. and Mrs. G. W. Mock, of Roaring Spring; 
H. G. of Philadelphia, and Daniel, Josephine and Paul at home.

Martinsburg Herald, December 2, 1910