THE NAME OF HOOVER
SWITZERLAND U.S A. PRESIDENT’S ODL COUNTRY ANCESTOR A LINEN WEAVER lb has been generally supposed that the name of Hoover was an Americanised form of the frequently occurring German name of Huber. The papers now bring the news that the “jAmenkanische Schweizer Zetung” has received a letter from the White House to the effect that Presi dent Hoover’s old country is the Canton on Berne, and that his ancestors have been traced back to one Johann Heinrich Huber, a linen weaver. The possibility had already been pointed out by the Swiss-American Historical Society, since the beginning of the eighteenth century the Canton on Berne had systametically and officially encouraged the emigration to America, and numerous families had settled in Pensylvania, where they formed a sect known as the Swiss Mennonities. The name itself means a man who possesses a “Hube,” that is a small farm.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVI, Issue 7903, 17 September 1929, Page 4
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