Person:Jonas Hoover (1)

Research Notes

• Parents of Dr. Jonas Hoover (John Hoover and Esther Zook) are sourced in Portrait and Biographical Album of Lancaster, Nebraska ⁴. His mother Esther died when he was very young and his father remarried.
• Jonas Hoover is listed as a farmer, living with first wife Sarah in the 1870 census.
• Sometime between 1870-1876 Jonas and Sarah were divorced.
• In 1876, Jonas remarried Mrs. Mary P. Kenyon in McDonough county, IL. He is found living with her in the 1880 census in Vermont, Fulton, Illinois. Sarah is found living as a divorced mother of their children back home in Delaware county, Indiana.

1. ↑ 1850 census goes here.
2. ↑ Jonas Hoover, in Delaware, Indiana, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M693).

   Year: 1860; Census Place: Liberty, Delaware, Indiana; Roll: M653_254; Page: 719; Image: 710; Family History Library Film: 803254.
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   Name: Jonas Hoover
   Age in 1860: 20
   Birth Year: abt 1840
   Birthplace: Indiana
   Home in 1860: Liberty, Delaware, Indiana
   Gender: Male
   Post Office: Selma
   Household Members: Name Age
   John Hoover 45
   Sarah Hoover 55
   Jonas Hoover 20
   Abraham Hoover 18
   Jerusha Hoover 14
   Clark Hoover 9

3. ↑ Jonas Hoover, in Le Sueur, Minnesota, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M593).

   Year: 1870; Census Place: Tyrone, Le Sueur, Minnesota; Roll: T132_7; Page: 560; Image: 49; Family History Library Film: 830427.
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   Name: Jonas Hoover
   Age in 1870: 30
   Birth Year: abt 1840
   Birthplace: Indiana
   Home in 1870: Tyrone, Le Sueur, Minnesota
   Race: White
   Gender: Male
   Post Office: Le Sueur
   Household Members: Name Age
   Jonas Hoover 30
   Sarah A. Hoover 28
   Mary E. Hoover 9
   Clark Hoover 7

4. ↑ Dr. Jonas Hoover, in Portrait and biographical album of Lancaster, Nebraska: containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States. (Chicago [Illinois]: Chapman Brothers, 1888)
   p 596.

   John Hoover, the father of our subject. grew to manhood amid the wild scenes of Wayne County, Ind., during its early settlement, receiving a very limited education. When reaching manhood he contracted matrimonial ties with Miss Esther Zook, and they settled in the same neighborhood, following agricultural pursuits. Of this marriage four children were born, the first dying in infancy. The second, Dr. Jonas Hoover, is a practicing physician of Bennet, Neb.; Abraham L., our subject, was the third, and Esther, Mrs. West, who is the mother of a large family, is now living on a farm in Gruenwood County, Kan. The mother passed away when her son Abraham L. was but two years old. He, with the other children, was then given to the care of Grandmother Zook, where they remained for two or three years, until their father married for his second wife Miss Sarah Knotts. They settled on his father's farm, taking the two boys and leaving the daughter with her grandmother, who had cared for her from the time of her birth.

5. ↑ Jonas Hoover, in Fulton, Illinois, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule: Tenth Census of the United States, NARA Microfilm Publication T9. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration).

   Year: 1880; Census Place: Vermont, Fulton, Illinois; Roll: 208; Family History Film: 1254208; Page: 417C; Enumeration District: 057; Image: 0355.
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   Name: Jonas Hoover
   Age: 40
   Birth Year: abt 1840
   Birthplace: Indiana
   Home in 1880: Vermont, Fulton, Illinois
   Race: White
   Gender: Male
   Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
   Marital Status: Married
   Spouse's Name: Mary P. Hoover
   Father's Birthplace: Ohio
   Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
   Occupation: Physician
   Household Members: Name Age
   Jonas Hoover 40
   Mary P. Hoover 41
   Albert Kenyon 20
   Martha D. Kenyon 18
   Martha Seely 78

6. ↑ Jonas Hoover, in Lancaster, Nebraska, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

   Year: 1900; Census Place: Nemaha, Lancaster, Nebraska; Roll: 933; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0076; FHL microfilm: 1240933.
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   Name: Jonas Hoover
   Age: 60
   Birth Date: Oct 1839
   Birthplace: Indiana
   Home in 1900: Nemaha, Lancaster, Nebraska
   Race: White
   Gender: Male
   Relation to Head of House: Head
   Marital Status: Married
   Spouse's Name: Mary P Hoover
   Marriage Year: 1876
   Years Married: 24
   Father's Birthplace: Ohio
   Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
   Household Members: Name Age
   Jonas Hoover 60
   Mary P Hoover 63
   Emma Nelson 18
   Carey E Vail 20

7. ↑ Jones Hoover, in Lancaster, Nebraska, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

   Year: 1910; Census Place: Waverly, Lancaster, Nebraska; Roll: T624_850; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0104; FHL microfilm: 1374863.
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   Name: Jones Hoover
   Age in 1910: 70
   Birth Year: abt 1840
   Birthplace: Indiana
   Home in 1910: Waverly, Lancaster, Nebraska
   Race: White
   Gender: Male
   Relation to Head of House: Head
   Marital Status: Widowed
   Father's Birthplace: Ohio
   Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
   Household Members: Name Age
   Jones Hoover 70
   David Thayer 19

8. ↑ Jonas Hoover, in Hafner, Arthur W. Directory of deceased American physicians, 1804-1929. (Genealogy.com, c1999).

   Name: Jonas Hoover
   Death Date: 17 Dec 1910
   Death Place: Waverly, NE
   Type Practice: Allopath
   JAMA Citation: 61:133