Notes for Andreas Huber: Andrew Hoovers Ancestry is Swiss. The Huber family goes back to Bertoldus Hubere, b abt 1185. According to Hulda McClean's book, Bertoldus was a citizen of Bern and the younger son of a landed knight of Switzerland. Andreas was the 9th and youngest son of Gregor Jonas Huber, a wealthy landowner and vitner. He was born 1-23-1723, at Ellerstadt, district Dunkheim. The house of his birth, number 17 Fleissgasse, was demolished in 1900, but the barn and vintner's building still stand.
Andreas arrived from Ellerstadt to PA Sept 9, 1738 on the "Two Sisters". He settled in Lancaster Co., PA living among relatives that preceded him. In 1746, Andreas and Margaret moved to Carrol Co., MD and in 1750 acquired title to a farm at Mirey Springs on Little Pipe Creek at the head of Chesapeake Bay near Uniontown where most of their children were born. The land was sold to Stephen Bower in 1762. They moved to North Carolina by oxcart, probably about 1762. Andrew and his sons acquired many acres of rich farm land. Much land was available because the new state had taken it away from the British and the Tories. Andrew purchased 200 acres upon which he and his sons cut an empire through the wiiderness, established a dynasty, and prospered. This was a wild country. Daniel Boone was a neighbor on the Yadkin, of which the Uwharrie was a tributary. This is a quote from Hulda's book: "Many of the stories of the Uwharrie are Hoover traditions. The story goes that Andrew Hoover was not afraid of man, beast, or the devil, that he climbed to the top of Eagle Nest Rock when others were afraid to, that he swam the raging Uwharrie to save the lives of his horses, that, while others in the settlement were home in fear, he set out to face the headless horseman on the Uwharrie trails and brave the other ghostly figures that moved like lost souls down the valley."
In 1779 he built a grist mill at the fork of the Uwharrie River, an important granary in the Revolution. There is no record of these Hoovers as soldiers in the Revolution. They did give $500.00, a large sum of money in those days to the cause. In 1794, Andrew made a will appointing his son Jonas as executor. He is buried near Back Creek on the Uwharrie. The exact location is no longer known, but a monument is erected in near proximity. His widow died 3 years after his death. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Hulda Hoover McLean is the publisher of "The Descendants of President Hoover" in 1967. Researching the Hoover name. For those interested in the connection our family line has to the President, I am entering this exerpt taken directly from Hulda's book.
LINEAGE OF PRESIDENT HOOVER
This family originated in Switzerland and migrated to the Palatinate about the middle of the seventeenth century. JOHANN NEINRICH HUBER, of Oberkulm, in the County of Lenzburg, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, was the father of -----
JONAS HUBER, of Ellerstadt, nr Durkheim, Palatinate, b. Aug 1668, m Maria____, and d. at Ellerstadt 13 April 1741, leaving issue----
ANDREAS HUBER, emigrated to America 1738 and settled at Pipe Creek, Maryland, where he built a mill and farmland acquired from the Government in 1746 and 1748, moved to Randolph County, N Carolina 1762, anglicized his name as ANDREW HOOVER, ca 1763, bapt at Ellerstadt 29 Jan 1723, m ca 1745 MARGARET FOUTS(PFAUTZ), and d. 1794, leaving issue, with seven other sons and five daughters-----
JOHN HOOVER, millwright, settled at West Milton, Miami County, Ohio 1802, b. ca 1760, m in North Carolina ca 1785, SARAH BURKET (This is where "our family" connection begins.**** JOHN is the brother of JONAS, who was the Patriarch of "our" family.) Sarah had issue----
JESSE HOOVER, of Hubbard, Iowa, where he settled in 1854, b in North Carolina ca 1799, m 1819, Rebecca, dau of John Yount and d. at Hubbard, Nov 1856, leaving issue---
ELI HOOVER, b. at West Milton, Iowa, His son by his first marriage-----
JESSE CLARK HOOVER, of West Branch Iowa, Blacksmith and Farm Equipment Salesman, b. at West Milton, Ohio, 2 Sept 1847, m in Iowa 12 March, 1870, Hulda Randall, dau of Theodore Minthorn had issue-------
HERBERT CLARK HOOVER, 31st President of the United States. ___________________________________________________________________________________THE COMPENDIUM OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY : Volume IV, Page 17 Andrew was the first to use the name of Hoover. Arrived in Philadelphia on the ship "Two Sisters" on Sept 9, 1738 and lived with his elder brother in Lancaster Co., Pa until his marriage
More About Andreas Huber: Baptism: 20 Jan 1723, #17 Fleissgasse, Ellerstadt. Burial: Nr Asheboro, North Carolina. Census: 1790, Randolph County, NC (?). Immigration: 1738, From Ellerstadt to PA on the "TWO SISTERS". Religion: Quaker.
More About Andreas Huber and Anna Margaret Catherine Pfautz: Marriage 1: 1744, Lancaster Co., PA. Marriage 2: 2259 Marriage 3: 1745, PA.2259
Children of Andreas Huber and Anna Margaret Catherine Pfautz are:
Andreas Huber (b. 20 Jan 1723, d. 1794)
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