THE NAME OF HOOVER.
ORIGIN IN SWITZERLAND.
It has been generally supposed that the namo Hoover was an Americanised form of the frequently occurring German name Huber. The papers now bring the news that tho Amerikanische Sehweizer Zeitung has received a letter from White House to the effect that Mr. Hoover's old country is tho Canton of Berne, and that ins ancestors havq been tracedUback to one Johann Ileinrich Huber, a linen weaver. This possibility had already been pointed out bv tho Swiss American Historical Society; since tho beginning of the. eighteenth century tho Canton of Bcrno had systematically and officially encouraged the emigration to .America, and numerous families had settled in Pennsylvania, where thf'V formed a sect known as tho bwiss Mennonitos. Tho namo itself means a man who possesses a " Hubs, that is, a small farm.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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138THE NAME OF HOOVER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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