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submitted by: Julia Johnson - juliajoh@usc.edu
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Santa Barbara Morning Press Friday April 16, 1920 p. 4 Obituary - Mrs. Foster Coles Mrs. Foster Coles [Mary A. Hoover], after a brief illness, passed away yesterday at the
home of her brother, E. [dward] B. [enjamin] Hoover, in Mission Canyon [Santa Barbara]. Mrs. Coles has resided with a sister in Santa Cruz until about a year
ago when her physician sent her to Santa Barbara on account of ill health
due to [a] serious operation.
It was due to this illness complicated by an attack of influenza
that the death was precipitated. The body will be taken to Santa Cruz for interment by Mr. and Mrs.
Hoover [Martha Lloyd]. Santa Barbara Morning Press Friday
July 24, 1931
p. 5 Death Claims S. B. Educator Edward B. Hoover, Founder of Business College, Seized by Sudden
Stroke Edward B. [enjamin]
Hoover, founder and president
of the Santa Barbara Business College, died yesterday morning in his
home at 1536 Laguna Street. He
was stricken while at the school and died soon after he had been taken
home. Mr. Hoover established the Santa Barbara
Business College in 1888 and had served as its president since that
time. He was devoted to
his students, always showing a fatherly interest in them. He was himself a student and was deeply interested in art and
literature. He was born on December 26, 1863, in Bedford, Iowa, of an
old and distinguished family, which traces its ancestry to the period
of the reformation in Germany.
It was one of his mother's ancestors who, in 1717, built the
first German Lutheran church in Philadelphia, a landmark which is still
standing. Another ancestor, [John] Justus Henkle, built and maintained Henkle Fort in Virginia, in
Revolutionary days. Son Returns in 1888 The Hoover family came to Santa Barbara in 1872 and bought a 25-acre
tract in Mission Canyon. They
returned east, but in 1888 the son came back to establish himself here
permanently. He is survived
by his widow, Mrs. Martha Lloyd Hoover;
two daughters, Mrs. Horace F. [rederick] Pierce [Shirley] of Santa Barbara and Mrs. Richard Eldon Russell [Helen] of Los Angeles; a brother, Clinton D. [ewitt] Hoover, of Santa Cruz, who was at one time associated with
him in the college; and a sister, Miss Leonora Hoover, of Santa Cruz. The body is at the McDermott funeral
home, from which arrangements for the funeral will be announced. Santa Barbara News-Press Saturday
evening, December 1, 1951
p. B-3 Funeral Notices Hoover, Mrs. E. B. (Martha L.)----Mother
of Mrs. Horace Pierce
[Shirley] and Mrs. Dick Russell [Helen]. Private
services will be conducted by Dr. George Hall at 2 p.m. Monday at the
graveside in the Santa Barbara Cemetery. Please omit flowers.
Welch & Ryce, Funeral Directors. Santa Barbara News-Press Sunday morning December 2, 1951 p. A-7 Mrs. Martha Lloyd Hoover Services Set Tomorrow Private graveside services will be conducted tomorrow in the family
plot at Santa Barbara Cemetery for Mrs. Martha Lloyd Hoover, who died early yesterday at the home of a daughter,
Mrs. Horace F. [rederick] Pierce [Shirley], on the Vista del Mundo Ranch. Dr. George Hall, rector of All Saints
By-the-Sea Episcopal Church, will officiate. Mrs. Hoover, who had been identified with Santa Barbara since the early
'90s, had been ill for more than two years and had been bedridden for
a year and a half. She
had lived with her daughter for 10 years. Born in Salem, N. J., the daughter of David Washington and Sarah
Newell Lloyd, as a young
woman she attended the Trenton School for Young Ladies, the forerunner
of what is now Trenton Teachers College. In 1891 she came to California with a letter of introduction to Adolph
Millard of Marin County,
who was known throughout the world at that time as the confidante and
traveling companion of Joseph Bonaparte. After a short stay with the Millard family, she went to Ben Lomond,
where her brother owned and operated a hotel. In 1893 she came to Santa Barbara and here she met Edward
Benjamin Hoover and the
couple was married Dec. 26, 1895, in Ben Lomond.
Mr. Hoover died here in July 1931. The couple made their wedding trip to Santa Barbara via stagecoach over
the San Marcos Pass, stopping for the night at Mattei's Tavern in Los
Olivos before making the arduous trip over the mountain. At Cold Spring, where the stage stopped
to change horses, Mr. Hoover expressed delight over the beauty of the
spot and a desire to own it some day, a wish that he later was able
to fulfill. Mr. Hoover served for more than 40 years as owner and director of the
Santa Barbara Business College.
He first became identified with it as a young teacher in 1887. Shortly after, the owner put him in charge
while, he said, he was going to take a short trip. He never returned, and left behind him
a large number of debts. The
young schoolmaster continued to manage the school, paid off the debts
and took over ownership. He
was active in it until his death. Mrs. Hoover was a former member of the old Shakespeare Club, and when
it developed into the Santa Barbara Woman's Club, she continued her
membership in that organization. In addition to Mrs. Pierce, she is survived by another daughter, Mrs.
Richard E. [ldon] Russell [Helen]
of Toro Canyon; a sister, Miss Grace S. Lloyd of Brownbrook, N. J.; two brothers, Carl Williams
Lloyd of Brownbrook, and
Joel Parker Lloyd of
Hadden Heights, N. J.; a brother-in-law, Clinton Dewitt Hoover of Santa Cruz, and a grandson, Sterling Hoover
Pierce, a student at Stanford
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