JERRY S. HOOVER.
Jerry S. Hoover, a farmer of Greeley township, and a resident of this county for nearly thirty years, was born on August 18, 1865, in Racine county, Wisconsin, the son of Jerry M. and Fannie (Foreman) Hoover, natives of Pennsylvania, and of England, respectively. The mother came to the United States when a child, her parents having emigrated to America at that time. Jerry M. and Fannie (Foreman) Hoover were the parents of eleven children, of whom Jerry S., the subject of this sketch, was the fifth and the only one who has ever lived in Audubon county.
After living at home until he was twenty-three years old, Mr. Hoover came to Audubon county in 1888 and rented land for five years. He then purchased eighty acres of land in section 33, of Greeley township, and began his career as a farmer, a career in which he has been very successful. The eighty-acre farm was very slightly improved when Mr. Hoover purchased it, having only a small two-room house and a hay-shed barn. He has since built an addition to the house and now has a nine-room house, a good barn, cribs, granaries, garage and well-kept out-buildings. He is engaged in general farming and stock raising and milks on an average thirteen head of cows. He has added forty acres to his original holdings and also rents from forty to eighty acres additional.
On February 29, 1888, Jerry S. Hoover was married to Katherine Bauer, of Audubon, who was born on July 22, 1869, in Baden, Germany, the daughter of Christian and Susan (Frankenberger) Bauer. The mother died in the old country, when Katherine was eight years old, and her father again married. She came to the United States with her father and step-mother, and after landing in New York, in March, 1884, they went to Racine county, Wisconsin, where they lived for three years, and then came to Audubon county.
To Jerry S. and Katharine (Bauer) Hoover have been born eight children, as follow: Alice, born on May 4, 1889, married F. A. Bartelt, and has one child, George; Elizabeth, November 20, 1890, married Earl Griffin, and has four children, Edith and Elsie (twins), Myrtle and Arnold; Emma, May 13, 1892; Chris, August 26, 1894; Fannie, April 11, 1897; Nora, December 18, 1899; George, September 16, 1903, and Ellowene, April 25, 1907. All of the unmarried children live at home with their parents, except Emma, who stays with her sister, Elizabeth, near Anita.
For many years Mr. Hooyer has been a prominent Republican in Greeley township, having served as justice of the peace for three terms and as a school director for eight years. The Hoover family are members of the Christian church, and Mrs. Hoover especially has been an active church worker for many years. The family is well known in this part of the country. Fraternally, Mr. Hoover is a member of the Ancient Order of the United Workmen.
Jerry S. Hoover is a man of wide intelligence, a skillful and scientific farmer, who has followed closely the modern development in farming, and who has used only the most improved processes in farm operations. He believes in good machinery and his place is well equipped with most of the modern farm inventions. Not only is Mr. Hoover well known but he is popular in Greeley township and is held in high esteem by all who know him.
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Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, September, 2019 from History of Audubon County, Iowa Its People, Industries and Institutions With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, by H. F. Andrews, editor, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1915, pp. 569-570.
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