Randolph County, West Virginia          Biography of BENJAMIN MILTON HOOVER 

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 558
Randolph

BENJAMIN MILTON HOOVER came to Elkins after gradu-
ating from the University of Virginia a well trained and
qualified young lawyer, and for twenty years has enjoyed
an increasing share in his profession and in the civic and
social life of this county seat town of Randolph County.
He became a resident here August 12, 1902. For a number
of years he has been a member of the law firm Talbott &
Hoover, associated with E. D. Talbott.

Mr. Hoover was born on a farm near New Market in
Shenandoah County, Virginia, October 30, 1879, son of
Samuel R. and Linda (Neff) Hoover. His father was a
native of Rockingham County, Virginia.  The paternal
grandparents, Benjamin and Melvina (Sites) Hoover, were
also natives of the Valley of Virginia. The great-grand-
father was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry and came from
his native state of Pennsylvania as a pioneer to the Valley
of Virginia. Samuel E. Hoover was a small boy when the
Civil war broke out, but at the age of fifteen he enlisted in
the Confederate army and saw some service during the last
two months of the struggle. He married Mary Malinda,
better known as Linda Neff, daughter of Daniel Neff, a
native of the Valley of Virginia, and spent the rest of his
life as a practical farmer in Shenandoah County. He died
at the age of fifty-seven, being survived by his widow until
1922, when she died at the age of seventy-one. Their two
sons were Claude Neff and Benjamin Milton Hoover, both
of whom grew up on the Virginia farm.

Benjamin M. Hoover attained a high school education at
New Market.  He finished his literary education in the
University of Virginia and also graduated in law there in
1902, was admitted to the Virginia bar and soon afterward
established himself at Elkins. He has kept himself closely
within the channel of his chosen profession'and has sought
none of the special honors of politics or the larger respon-
sibilities of business. He is a democrat, is affiliated with
the Knights of Pythias and Elks and is a member of the
Episcopal Church.

Mr. Hoover in 1905 married Miss Sallie Wellford Scott,
a native of North Carolina. Their two children are Mary
Bruce and Samuel E. Hoover.