The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 266

SIMEON E. HOOVER.

Simeon E. Hoover has been a resident of Yakima county only since 1913 but in
this brief period has made for himself a place among the representative ranchmen
of the district. He comes to the west from Elkhart county, Indiana, where he was
born on the 18th of February, 1852, a son of David and Susanna (Shank) Hoover,
who were natives of Canada and of Ohio respectively. The father devoted his life
to the occupation of farming, which he followed for many years in Saint Joseph
county, Indiana, where both he and his wife passed away.

Simeon E. Hoover acquired a public school education and in 1877, when a young
man of twenty-five years, went to Kansas, where he remained for two years,
devoting his attention to agricultural pursuits during that period. In 1888 he
arrived in the northwest. Making his way to Tacoma, he afterward engaged in
shingle weaving on the Pacific coast for twenty years and at length determined
to take up the business of fruit raising in the Yakima valley. Accordingly in
the fall of 1913 he came to Yakima county and purchased forty acres of land on
Naches Heights, of which twelve acres is in orchards and the remainder is plow
land. He has a fine ranch, on which he has built a good barn, a large silo and
made many other modern improvements which indicate the progressive spirit that
is back of all of his work and which is producing splendid results.

On the 31st of December, 1874, Mr. Hoover was married to Miss Ellen Reed, who
was born in Saint Joseph county, Indiana, a daughter of William and Susanna
Reed. The children of this marriage are: Dora, the wife of M. C. McDougal, a
rancher, by whom she has two daughters; and Arthur, a resident of Seattle, but
now a member of the United States army. He is married but has no children.

Mr. Hoover gives his political endorsement to the republican party, which he has
supported since reaching manhood. He is a member of the Baptist church and high
and honorable principles guide him in all the relations of life. He never seeks
to figure prominently in public affairs, preferring to give his attention to his
business interests, and his close application and unfaltering energy have been
the salient features in the attainment of the success which he now enjoys.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.