BIO: Henry HOOVER, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 844 - 846.
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  HENRY HOOVER, one of Clearfield County's prominent and successful 
agriculturists, who is carrying on extensive operations in Cooper (formerly 
Morris) Township, is a member of an old and honored family, and was born in what 
was known as Hoover Settlement, Hickory Bottom, February 18, 1845, a son of 
Jeremiah and Catherine (Beam) Hoover, and a grandson of John Hoover.
  John Hoover was an early settler at what is now Allport, Pa., and there he 
spent his life engaged in agricultural pursuits.  He was the father of seven 
children, as follows:  Sarah, who married Joseph Rubly and moved to Karthaus 
Hill, where her death occurred; Hannah, who married William Shippee and for many 
years lived at Wallaceton where she died, burial being made at Allport (after 
her death Mr. Shippee removed to Illinois); Mrs. James Potter, deceased, who for 
many years lived only one and one-half miles from the home of Henry Hoover; 
John, who was a lifelong agriculturist of Cooper Township; Samuel, who owned a 
farm adjoining the old homestead; and George and Jeremiah, who purchased the 
home farm from their father's estate.  The maternal grandfather of Henry Hoover, 
Henry Beam, was one of the early settlers of Clearfield County, whence he came 
from Dauphin county.
  Jeremiah Hoover, the father of Henry, spent his life on the old home farm, and 
was not only successful in agricultural ventures but became a prominent man in 
public affairs, serving as supervisor and member of the school board for many 
years.  He died about 1888, his wife having passed away ten years prior to that 
time, and they were the parents of the following children:  William, who was a 
private in Captain McCullough's company of the famous Bucktails, the 45th Reg., 
Pa. Vols., and he died in 1867 at Lockhaven, of sickness contracted during the 
war; Wilson, who is engaged in farming one mile from the place of his birth, and 
who married Miss Harriet Dingie; Gilbert, who married Miss Majorie Zimmerman, 
who is now deceased, and is farming one-half mile from the old home; Henry; 
Margaret, deceased, who was the wife of Aaron Kyler; John, who married Miss 
Alice Dingie and is now living on the old homestead; Sarah, who married a Mr. 
Murray and resides in the State of Washington; George, who married a Miss 
Emerick, now deceased, and lives in Karthaus; Matilda, who married Henry Moyer, 
of Washington; and two children who died in infancy.
  Henry Hoover attended school in the Hoover Settlement until he was eighteen 
years of age and one session in Curwensville under Superintendent George Snyder 
and during the following year, 1868, he took a normal course at Clearfield.  He 
was engaged in farming with his father up to the time he was twenty-seven years 
of age, at which time he was married and moved to his present property, a tract 
of 110 acres, of which about seventy acres are under cultivation.  When he 
located on this property, all that it boasted in the way of buildings was an old 
log barn and part of a house, but Mr. Hoover soon erected new buildings, 
completed the house, set out orchards, fenced his property well, and made such 
improvement on the place that he is now considered to be the model farmer of the 
township.  He has been very successful in his operations and is rated among the 
solid, substantial citizens if his community.  This property is inderlaid with 
coal, and it has been leased by Mr. Hoover to the Clearfield Bituminous Coal 
Corporation.
  In 1872 Mr. Hoover was married to Miss Miriem Zimmerman, who was born in 
Center County, Pa., daughter of William and Sarah (Strausser) Zimmerman, who 
came from Snyder County.  Mr. Zimmerman, who was a carpenter by trade, had lived 
for some years in Clearfield County, but his death took place in Center County, 
while his widow makes her home with Mr. Hoover.  Eight children have been born 
to Mr. and Mrs. Hoover:  William, a fireman and engineer on the New York Central 
Railway, who married Millie Taylor, daughter of Latimer Taylor of Kylertown, and 
has had two children, Fay and Grace, the latter being deceased; Ammon, a 
carpenter by trade, who recently went to the State of Washington, where he has 
been located for two years; Lisle, an employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
shops, who married Birdie Hess, daughter of George Hess of Cooper Township and 
has three children, Russell, Eloise and Ethel; Belle, who married Arthur Brown, 
a farmer of Cooper Township and has five children, Maud, Ruth, Clarence, Foster 
and Mary; Clarence, a resident of Youngstown, O., who married Nellie Ardry, the 
daughter of Charles Ardry; Ocie, who married Paul Holt, an employe of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad shops and a son of Oscar Holt, and has one child, Grace; 
and Frank and Pearl, who are single and reside with their father on the home 
farm.  Mr. Hoover is a Democrat in politics and he has served as school director 
for several terms.