. A standard history of Jasper and Newton counties, Indiana : an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of modern developments in the progress of town and country. ntry as a soldier of the Union army. For half a centuryhe has been a prominent farmer in Marion Township and has con-tributed to the growth and development of that locality. Though a resident of Indiana since infancy, William M. Hooverwas born in Ross County, Ohio, August 27, 1844, a son of Alfordand Margaret (Rozelle) Hoover, his father a native of HarpersFerry, Virginia, and his mother of Ohio. In 1846 the family
. A standard history of Jasper and Newton counties, Indiana : an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of modern developments in the progress of town and country. ntry as a soldier of the Union army. For half a centuryhe has been a prominent farmer in Marion Township and has con-tributed to the growth and development of that locality. Though a resident of Indiana since infancy, William M. Hooverwas born in Ross County, Ohio, August 27, 1844, a son of Alfordand Margaret (Rozelle) Hoover, his father a native of HarpersFerry, Virginia, and his mother of Ohio. In 1846 the family movedfrom Ohio to Warren County, Indiana, and in 1854 joined the earlypioneer settlers of Jasper County, locating on a tract of wild land insection 12 of Marion Township. It was in that locality that AlfordHoover spent his declining years. He was a cooper by trade, butfollowed farming after his removal to Indiana. The mother ofWilliam M. Hoover died Februarj 6, 1904, in very advanced age. Eighteen months of age when brought to Indiana, William was reared partly in Warren and partly in Jasper County,attended such common schools as were in existence at that time, and. JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES 413 had reached the age of seventeen when he responded to the call forvolunteers at one of the critical times of the Civil war. He enlistedAugust II, 1862, in Company A of the Eighty-seventh Indiana Vol-u eer Infantry. This regiment was organized and rendezvousedat South Bend, was mustered in at Indianapolis, and departed forthe front in August, 1862. The regiment went to Louisville, Ken-tucky, and Mr. Hoover was first under fire at Crab Orchard. Hewas a participant in practically all the campaigns throughout Ten-nessee, Kentucky, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina andGeorgia until the strength of the Confederacy in those states wasbroken. He fought at Tunnel Hill, Benders Prairie, Gallatin. Tulla-homa and at Chickamauga, where more than half of his regiment waswounded or ki
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