Ancestry of
Herbert Hoover

31st U.S. President

Jesse Hoover

View famous kin of Jesse Hoover

• • Great-grandfather of Herbert Hoover — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • John Hoover 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Burkhart   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Jun 1799 
  • Birth Location:
  • Uwharrie River, Randolph County, North Carolina 
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Nov 1856 
  • Death Location:
  • West Branch, Iowa 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca Yount
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Apr 1819 
  • Marriage Location:
  • West Milton, Miama, Ohio 
  • Child:

  Eli Hoover (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give 15 NOV 1856 as the death date for Jesse Hoover.

• Sources for Jesse Hoover

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A057815.
  • ² Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958, Marriage record for Jesse Hoover and Rebecah Young.
  • ³ Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin), "Coat of Arms for Hoover is from Abroad", 03 MAR 1929, p. 9.
  • ⁴ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 629, 635.
  • ⁵ Hoover, Harry M., The Huber-Hoover Family History: A Biographical and Genealogical History of the Descendants of Hans Huber . . ., 40.
  • ⁶ 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.
  • ⁷ Reser, William M., M.D., John Rudolph Waymire and the First Three Generations of His Descendants . . ., Lafayette, Indiana: n. p. (1925).
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 111.