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Herbert Hoover A Reminiscent Biography
Author: Will Irwin

Text extracted from opening pages of book: HERBERT HOOVER ^ Reminiscent Bi BY WILL IRWIN / t ILLUSTRATED Special THE CENTURY CO. Copyright, 1928, by WILL IRWIN Copyright, 1928, by UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE, INC. First printing March, 1938 Second printing April, 1928 Third printing June, 1928 Special Edition July, Ips8 Second Special Edition, July... more », 1928 ILLUSTRATIONS HERBERT HOOVER Frontispiece PAGE MRS. JESSE HOOVER 28 . TAD, BERT AND MAY HOOVER XT SALEM, OREGON, ABOUT 1888 61 CORNER OF THE INNER QUADRANGLE, STANFORD UNI VERSITY 76 HERBERT HOOVER, PERTH, WEST AUSTRALIA, IN 1898 . 93 SONS OF GWALIA MINE ' AT MOUNT LEONORA, WEST AUS TRALIA 124 MRS. HERBERT HOOVER 157 HERBERT HOOVER AND A GROUP OF HIS AMERICAN AND DUTCH ASSOCIATES, ROTTERDAM, 1915 l88 HERBERT HOOVER: A REMINISCENT BIOGRAPHY HERBERT HOOVER: A REMINISCENT BIOGRAPHY CHAPTER I HERBERT HOOVER derives from the Colonial stock. His first established ancestor was a certain Andrew Hoover, one of three brothers who in 1740 or there about held farms in the uplands of Maryland. Very probably Andrew was an immigrant; we have before him no record of the name in America. Certain gene alogists, on doubtful or fanciful authority, say that the Hoovers came originally from France; that one Huber, a Huguenot fleeing from persecution by the king, settled in Holland and altered his surname to fit the phonetics of his adopted country. An old family tradition relates that the Hoovers sprang from Hol land and were there converted by English refugees to the Quaker faith. This name is common in all north western Europe; but while the French and Walloons spell it Huber, the Germans Hoofer or Hoefer, the Dutch and Flemish alone use the form Hoover, Andrew Hoover was second of these three pioneer brothers and Herbert Hoover's direct progenitor in the sixth generation. When the curtain rises on him 4 HERBERT HOOVER he belongs to the Society of Friends. Thenceforth for five generations his descendants remained Quakers, married u in the meeting with women of the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic blood, followed the frontier, and broke virgin soiL Andrew Hoover passed on from Maryland to North Carolina. In 1802 his son John joined one of the Quaker treks into the virgin lands of the Western Reserve and settled, with others of his faith, near Miami, Ohio. Again in 1853 the family was on the move, driven as was typical of American rural life in those days by the necessity of providing farms for the growing boys. With a group of neighbors and co religionists, Jesse Hoover, then head of the family; his wife Rebecca, his son Eli, and Eli's brood packed themselves into covered wagons and emigrated to the fat, unbroken prairie lands of Iowa. There in 1853 they founded West Branch, Cedar county. Before they began clearing land they had broken ground for their meeting-house ; and for at least thirty years the major ity of that; small but soberly prosperous town wore the broad hat or the poke bonnet and spoke the plain speech. To the large Hoover faction Jesse's wife Rebecca ( sprung from that good old pioneer family the Younts) stood matriarch. Born at about the turn of the nine teenth century, she lived until 1895. She was a woman of glorious energy, stern but humorous character, and strong religious convictions ; and she held firmly to the observances and even the prejudices of hey faith. When the inhabitants began screening their windows against flies, she opposed this hygienic measure as balking A REMINISCENT BIOGRAPHY 5 somehow the purposes of the Lord. When her son Banajah bought a parlor melodeon, she did her best to prevent such manifestation of worldliness. Next thing, she said, they would be setting up an organ in meet ing. And indeed, before she died, a faction of the community had done exactly that Eli Hoover, eldest son of Jesse and Rebecca, held a farm like his forebears. He had, however, a strong mechanical bent. Toward the end of his life he was as much carpenter and mason as fanner; old residents of West

ISBN-13: 9781406767179
ISBN-10: 1406767174
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Irwin Press
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