Charles Hoover, Sr.

HOOVER, ROGERS, STOUT, CARSON, COATS, WALTON, CURTIS

Posted By: Larry Carberry (email)
Date: 12/5/2004 at 16:03:59

Source: History of Buchanan County, Iowa with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (1842-1881), published by Williams Bros., Publishers, printed by the Printing House of W. W. Williams, Cleveland, Ohio. (selected sections from pages 430-432)

Charles Hoover came to this State in April 1851, and stayed a short time at Quasqueton; but the same summer settled on the land now owned and occupied by him. He is a native of Ohio. When he first came and settled here the nearest neighbor was four miles away. He has had thirteen children, five living, whose names are as follows: Nancy, married to a Mr. Stout, and lives in Cono township; Samuel, a farmer, and lives in Newton; Jane, married to John M. Carson, and now resides in Kansas; Adam, a farmer in Newton, James, married and lives in Cono; his three sons, Samuel, Adam and James, are among the most prosperous in the county. In early days Mr. Hoover was a great hunter, and kept about him a fine pack of trained hounds, and used to follow the swift-footed deer over the prairie and through the timber, furnishing the settlers with plenty of good venison. Since he came to this State he has killed here fifty-seven deer. His manner of travelling while hunting was invariably afoot. The lynx was also quite common in those days, which he frequently killed. At one time when he was out hunting he saw a lynx in a tree and fired upon it; but it still remained in a crotch of the tree. Thinking it might be dead, he climbed the tree, when, as he came near it, he noticed its glaring eyes, as if in the act of leaping upon him. Then he thought discretion was the better part of valor and immediately returned. Again he opened fire upon him, and this time he was dislodged and fell to the ground, where he was quickly dispatched by the dogs. Mr. Hoover has thirty-eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.