Col. James Power Hoover and Elizabeth Clover

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Husband Col. James Power Hoover ¹

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         Father: Jacob Hoover (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Jane Boggs (      -      ) 1

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• Note: This may be the same person as : Col. James P. Hoover.

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Wife Elizabeth Clover ¹

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         Father: Philip Clover (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Sarah Roll (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 M Christian Myers Hoover ¹

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           Born: 10 Apr 1834 - Myers Furnace, Clarion Co, PA 1
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           Died: 11 Aug 1914 1
         Buried: 14 Aug 1914 - Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Venango Co, PA

         Spouse: Hester Ann Force (1831-1906) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Col. James Power Hoover

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He was appointed prothonotary of Venango County, Pennsylvania, by Governor Porter in 1839, and in the election that followed he was elected to that office for a three-year term. He was elected a member of the Pennsylvania Senate in 1844. In 1851 he was appointed by the Canal Commissioners as collector of tolls at Hollidaysburg. He was commissioned a colonel by Governor Shunk. Colonel Hoover, together with his father-in-law, Philip Clover, and his brother-in-law, General Levi Clover, presented to the town and county of Clarion the land on which the court house and public buildings stand.

1 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 117.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 118.