Ancestry of
Herbert Hoover

31st U.S. President

Jessie Clark Hoover

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• • Father of Herbert Hoover — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Eli Hoover 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Davis   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Sep 1846 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stillwater, Ohio 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Dec 1880 
  • Death Location:
  • West Branch, Iowa 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • West Branch Cemetery, West Branch, Cedar, Iowa 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Hulda Randall Minthorn
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Mar 1870 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Johnson County, Iowa 
  • Child:

  Herbert Clark Hoover (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give Jesse's death date as 14 DEC 1880, but this disagrees with his tombstone which has 13 DEC 1880.

• Sources for Jessie Clark Hoover

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/22/2015).
  • ² Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934, Marriage record for Jesse C Hoover and Huldah R Minthorn.
  • ³ Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin), "Coat of Arms for Hoover is from Abroad", 03 MAR 1929, p. 9.
  • ⁴ Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, 1932, Vol. 11, Page 194.
  • ⁵ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 629-630, 635.
  • ⁶ Hoover, Harry M., The Huber-Hoover Family History: A Biographical and Genealogical History of the Descendants of Hans Huber . . ., 40.
  • ⁷ McLean, Hulda Hoover, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Stanford, California: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (1967), fold-out chart between pages 4 and 5.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 215.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 371.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 111, 360, 435, 442, 463, 476, 478, 502, 535, 556-557, 580, 583, 586, 663.
  • ¹¹ Wikipedia, "Jessie Hoover", (accessed 03/04/2013).