Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Jessamine Co.

WILLIAM H. HOOVER is the son of Peter Hoover, who was of German descent and
born near Hagerstown, Md., in 1789, immigrated to Kentucky with his parents
in 1800 and settled in Jessamine County just west of Nicholasville. In 1811
he married Miss Eva Nave, removed to the southern portion of the county,
and settled in what was then a wilderness, on Hickman Creek.  About this
time he was drafted in the war of 1812, which was soon ended.  He resided
nearly three-quarters of a century at this same place, making for himself
a good name for all that was honorable, truthful and upright, and
accumulated a considerable fortune for his children.  He died in 1872, a
true and honored member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  Eva Nave
Hoover, the mother of William H. Hoover, was a native of Estill County,
Ky., born in 1790, and like her husband lived to a ripe old age, dying in
1876, having made for herself a character for purity and sweetness of
disposition seldom equaled.  William H. Hoover is the fourth of eight
children, and was born in Jessamine County, Ky., August 17, 1821.  He spent
his youth and early manhood as a teamster, driving a train of wagons from
Nicholasville to Louisville, Ky., and in assisting his father in partially
subduing the great forest that surrounded them.  For many years he had
charge of his father's saw and grist-mill.  When a young man he became a
member of the Masonic order and rapidly rose to the high positions of that
fraternity, of which he is still a worthy member.  His opportunities for
receiving an education were exceedingly limited, there being practically
no schools in this then sparsely settled district of Kentucky.  But being
a practical and industrious man he made the best of his opportunities and
gathered knowledge by observation and experience, and to-day he is a man
of good practical education.  He has always been a Democrat in politics,
and for more than thirty years a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South.  He has accumulated a nice estate, given his two children
good education and a nice start in life, and is now taking his old age
quietly and pleasantly on his beautiful blue-grass farm, near his children
and grandchildren.  He married Miss Sarah J. Evans, of Garrard County,
Ky., November 26, 1857.  She was the daughter of Dr. Hezekiah and Nancy
(Cole) Evans, and born November 18, 1841.  Her father was assassinated in
1862 on account of his strong Southern sympathy near his home in Garrard
County; her mother died in 1882, aged about seventy years.  To William H.
Hoover and wife were born three children: William H. Hoover, Jr., the
first, was born September 5, 1858, and received his early training at the
district schools, Bethel Academy, Nicholasville, Ky., and at Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tenn., where he entered in 1877 and remained until
he completed his education; he then returned to his father's farm, where
he assumed control until November 10, 1885, when he married Miss Mattie R.
Vince, of Jessamine County, Ky.; he then removed to his own farm adjoining
that of his father, where he is now farming and breeding thoroughbred and
trotting horses.  Thomas D. Hoover, the second son, was born in 1859, and
died in infancy; Everett B. Hoover, the third and youngest child, was
born October 21, 1860, and like his brother received his early education in
the free schools and at Bethel Academy; in 1877 he entered the Wesleyan
College at Millersburg, Ky., where he remained until 1879; then entered
Vanderbilt University, where he took a special course of study, preparatory
to studying law.  In 1880 he entered the Columbia College Law School, New
York City, where he remained two years, taking the full law course,
graduating in June, 1882.  He at once returned to his home and received
his license to practice law in August, 1882, and has been a continued
practitioner ever since.  He married Miss Ella Burnett, of Boyle County,
Ky., November 21, 1882.  To this union was born Elizabeth Hoover, the
first grandchild of William H. Hoover, January 31, 1884.  In April, 1886,
Everett B. Hoover was elected judge of the city court of Nicholasville,
Ky., and was re-elected the following year, of which office his is the
present incumbent.

Hoover Nave Evans Cole Vince Burnett
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Boyle-KY Estill-KY Garrard-KY Nashville-Davidson-TN NY

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