OBIT: W. L. HOOVER, 1913, Garrett, Somerset County, PA

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Hoover, W. L.

  On Saturday evening one of the most widely known and prominent citizens of 
Garrett passed away. W. L. Hoover, the subject of this notice was aged 61 years, 
4 months and 16 days. He had been in feeble health for the last 10 months. 
Recently he spent four weeks at the Allegheny Hospital in Cumberland, taking 
treatment for heart trouble. Dr. Johnson of Cumberland, Dr. Miller of Hyndman, 
and Dr. Pollard of Garrett, gave him there best attendance. He is survived by 
his wife, one daughter, Mrs. W. L. Brant of Garrett, eight grandchildren, and 
also by two brothers and three sisters namely James of Garrett, Henry of 
Chadwick, Ill., Mrs. S. T. Burkholder of Garrett, Mrs. Frank Rugg of Markleton 
and Mrs. Lucinda Booher of Scottdale, Pa. The funeral services were conducted on 
Tuesday by his pastor, Rev. H. H. Wiant. For a period of twenty seven years he 
had been a track foreman on the B. & O. railroad and received three medals of 
distinction for efficiency in his work. In 1903 he retired from the railroad 
service and since then engaged in farming and other enterprises. Hr. Hoover had 
been a member of the Lutheran Church at Garrett, and belonged to the following 
fraternal organizations: Knights of the Golden Eagle, of Garrett, and Knights of 
Pythias of Meyersdale. Mr. Hoover was a large property holder at Garrett, and 
took an active interest in business enterprises. He was a director of the Paint 
Bank Lumber Company, operating a mill in Virginia; a director of the First 
National Bank of Garrett, since the organization of the bank; one of the largest 
stockholders of the Garrett Water Company, director and superintendent at the 
time of his death. In his death Garrett loses an influential citizen, the church 
loses a warm and loyal supporter, the business element in the community will be 
deprived of his wise counsel, and the town loses one who had a strong faith in 
the future of Garrett. 

Meyersdale Commercial, Sept. 18, 1913