Franics Hoover - I48144 - Individual Information - Wisconsin and Illinois Genealogy

Franics Hoover (I48144)

Given Names: Franics
Surname: Hoover

Gender: Male

Birth: 8 August 1842 -- Shamokin, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Death: 24 December 1913 -- Shamokin, Northumberland, Pennsylvania

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Floyd's Northumberland County Genealogy

Francis Hoover, insurance broker of Shamokin, Northumberland Co., Pa., was born Aug. 8, 1842, in Shamokin township, and there grew to manhood. He received the advantages afforded by the local public schools, but he is a self-made man, having made his own way from boyhood and risen to a substantial position through his own efforts.

In 1859 be commenced to learn carpentering, which he followed for eight years in all, and for another eight years was engaged at pattern-making. For the next sixteen years he had a store at No. 19 North Shamokin street, in the borough of Shamokin, carrying on a mercantile business, but he was obliged to abandon that line on account of his health, withdrawing from it in 1892. For several years be was engaged in city work, being clerk of the poor district and for eight years health inspector, and in 1909 he entered the fire insurance business, in which he has established a profitable patronage.

Mr. Hoover has been active in the various organizations of a social, fraternal or religious nature with which he has been identified. He is a Methodist and served many years as trustee of the church, being long secretary of the board of trustees. He is one of the two surviving charter members of Shamokin Lodge, No. 664, I.O.O.F., of which he has been a member since 1865, and he also belongs to the Odd Fellows Encampment. Politically he is an independent Republican.

On Dec. 24, 1865, Mr. Hoover married Mary E. Lewis, daughter of William and Elizabeth ‎(Douty)‎ Lewis, of Pottsville, Pa., and they had a family of seven children: Charles, born Feb. 4, 1867, died June 1, 1867; George W., born Sept. 11, 1869, died in April, 1870; John Frederick, born May 23, 1874, died Aug. 7, 1874; Mary E., born Oct. 10, 1876, married G. A. Buck, who is station agent at Sunbury; Elmira R., born Sept. 7, 1879, married J. T. Shoener, a printer at Shamokin; Bessie A., born April 28, 1883, is unmarried and keeps house for her father; Raymond F. is mentioned below. The mother of this family died Dec. 15, 1907, aged sixty-three years, three months, three days.


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	Events of close relatives
Birth	8 August 1842 6143 Shamokin, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Death of father	11 October 1854 (Age 12) John Hoover (I48125) (Age 74) - [Relationship Chart]
Death of mother	25 November 1883 (Age 41) Mary Harmon (I48126) (Age 84) - [Relationship Chart]
Death	24 December 1913 (Age 71) Shamokin , Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Universal Identifier	808997B2A5CD2E446182B3F448EECBEACD2D
Last Change	9 May 2009 - 10:20:54 Last changed by: dcoplien