Samuel Hoover

HOOVER, CUMMINGS, SCHNEIDER, BAILY

Posted By: Larry Carberry (email)
Date: 12/5/2004 at 15:56:38

Source: History of Buchanan County, Iowa 1842 to 1881

page 433

Samuel Hoover, one of the early residents of Buchanan county, was born December 2, 1836, in Harrison county, Ohio, where he remained till he was fourteen years of age, when he came to Iowa, in company with his parents, and settled in Newton township, where he has ever since resided. He has a good farm of one hundred and sixty acres of prairie and twenty of timber. He built the residence he now occupies in 1861, though he did not complete it until 1869. It is a beautiful place and is well surrounded with a grove of maple and poplar. All the improvements now existing have been made by the hard and industrious work of Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, and they now enjoy a fine home as a reward of their efforts. Mr. Hoover was married, February 23, 1860, to Miss Hulda Cummings, of Ohio. The have had seven children, five of whom are living: Junius P., born December 3, 1860; Mary E., born February 21, 1863; Martha M., born August 17, 1865; Janetta S., born September 9, 1867; Rosa, born November 29, 1871; William J., born September 16, 1875; Byron J., born October 7, 1877. Rosa and William died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover are members of the Wesleyan Methodist church. Politically, Mr. Hoover is a Republican, and has held office the greater part of the time since he became of age; has been township clerk, treasurer of school board, also secretary and member of the same; has been postmaster seven years.