| Life fact | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Samuel Beery Hoover |
| Born | June 18, 1898, in Winchester, Virginia |
| Parents | Samuel Lewis Hoover and Minnie Dora Beery |
| Spouse | Mary Lucy Strickler |
| Children | Janice Marylyn Hoover and James Beery Hoover |
| Residence and career center | Harrisonburg, Virginia |
| Principal role | Certified public accountant and head of S. B. Hoover and Company |
Genealogy of Samuel Beery Hoover
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Samuel Beery Hoover was born June 18, 1898, in Winchester, Virginia, a son of Samuel Lewis Hoover and Minnie Dora Beery.
On January 25, 1923, at the University of Virginia Chapel in Charlottesville, he married Mary Lucy Strickler, daughter of Reuben Thomas Strickler and Litha Jane Cornwell. They had two children: Janice Marylyn Hoover, who married Eric T. Naschold, Jr., and James Beery Hoover.
Family outline
Samuel Beery Hoover
- Father: Samuel Lewis Hoover
- Mother: Minnie Dora (Beery) Hoover
- Wife: Mary Lucy Strickler
- Father: Reuben Thomas Strickler
- Mother: Litha Jane (Cornwell) Strickler
- Daughter: Janice Marylyn Hoover
- Husband: Eric T. Naschold, Jr.
- Son: James Beery Hoover
Source
This biography appeared in History of the Shenandoah Valley: Family and Personal Records, Volume III (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1952), page 32.
Verbatim biography
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SAMUEL BEERY HOOVER—Residing in Harrisonburg and centering his work in this community, Samuel Beery Hoover has substantially contributed to a number of commercial and business interests in this area.
Mr. Hoover was born June 18, 1898, in Winchester, Virginia, son of Samuel Lewis and Minnie Dora (Beery) Hoover and member of an old Southern family. His father was for years engaged in farming operations, and was the founder of Winchester’s first telephone company. He similarly established the first electric light company in his community. Later it came to be known as the Northern Virginia Power Company and took up its quarters in Winchester. He became president of the Wetsel Seed Company, Inc., and a director of the National Bank of Harrisonburg, so continuing until his death, May 25, 1921.
In Winchester, his birthplace, Samuel Beery Hoover attended a private school conducted by Henrietta Price. Moving to Harrisonburg with his family in 1908, he studied in public schools here, continuing through the high school grades and being graduated in 1916. He was later a student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the University of Virginia, and had a special accountancy course at Pace Institute, New York City. He received his certificate as a certified public accountant in Virginia in 1927. As early as 1920 he had become assistant manager of the Hyde County Land and Lumber Company, in Swan Quarter, North Carolina. He also managed his father’s farm near Timberville, in Rockingham County, Virginia. He first became interested in accounting about 1925, accepting employment with J. H. Wren and Company of Norfolk, Virginia, and subsequently serving them in the territory around Bluefield, West Virginia.
At the time of writing Mr. Hoover is head of his own accounting firm, S. B. Hoover and Company, in Harrisonburg. He also serves as secretary of the Wetsel Seed Company, Inc., in this same community. Among his other undertakings, Mr. Hoover owns a farm near Timberville, as well as the “Fort Egypt Farm” in Page County, Virginia. In the “Fort Egypt” property is included the fine old homestead, in which still stands the original “fort” cellar, constructed in 1720. Mr. Hoover’s agricultural activities include the cultivation of grain and the raising of live stock. The Timberville property also has extensive apple orchards. Among Mr. Hoover’s precious possessions is the original deed to the Page County Farm, deeding the parcel from Lord Fairfax to the first occupant.
Civic activities have taken up much of Mr. Hoover’s time and attention. He is president of the Harrisonburg Community Council and a member of the board of trustees of the Page-Rockingham Public Library. He is past president of the Harrisonburg Rotary Club, and has a twenty-year attendance pin in the organization, awarded him for never having missed a meeting. He belongs also to the American Institute of Accountants, and is an ex-director of the Virginia Society of Public Accountants. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
Samuel Beery Hoover married January 25, 1923, at the University of Virginia Chapel, Charlottesville, Virginia, Mary Lucy Strickler, born in Page County, Virginia, daughter of Reuben Thomas and Litha Jane (Cornwell) Strickler. Her father was for years an elder in the Page County Primitive Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover became the parents of two children: 1. Janice Marylyn, now Mrs. Eric T. Naschold, Jr., born February 22, 1925, and living at Columbia, South Carolina. 2. James Beery, born October 16, 1934.