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Ancestry of Herbert H
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MINTHORN

r. William Min thorn, b. 1716 in England He .
Boston, Mass. , where he matured and th · restded near

he P urchased near Hartford Conn' He hen on a farm Which
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md. Mary Gilbert dau Joseph and Elizab th : m 1805. He
THE ONTARIO ANCESTRY OF HERBERT CLARK HOOVER e (Smtth} Gilbert
31st PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ' II. William Minthorn, born c. 1740 in c .
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onnechcut He md
Hannah (E Id r1 ge Lewts, a Widow with two chïd ·
d El· b th Eld · 1 ren, daughter
of James an tza e rtdge. About 1802 \V'll' .
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sons James an Jo and daughter Lucy Divt·n 1 tarn, Wtth his
e, went to Canada
Herbert Clark Hoover was born September 10, 1874 at West and settled on Yonge Street at Toronto. William d
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Branch. Iowa. a son of Jesse Clark and Hulda Randall (Min- 1 M tc ae m orn b. 20 Oct 1764· d . c. 183 0.
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thorn) HooYer. The mother. Hulda Min thorn, was born May 4, m mllttary service. , . as a youna man
b
1848 at Norwich in Oxford County, Ontario. The material pre-
2. Mary Minthorn, md. Evan Van Epps b. July rGG
sented here indicating the lines of descent of President Hoover 17 1
3. William Minthorn, b. 29 Oct 1767. d. aged
from Ontario families is taken from the Genealogy of the Her- +4. John Minthorn, 1768-1859. 90 ·
bert Hoover Family by Hulda Hoover McLean (Mrs Chari~.
5. Joseph Minthorn, a rnusician, bad seven sons.
McLean) published in 1967 by the Hoover Institution of Stan-
6. Lucy Minthorn, b. 3 Oct 1772. md. John Divine. a
ford University. Mrs McLean, daughter of the late Theodore
distiller. They had sons: James Divine. and John
J. Hoover (1871-1955) and niece of Herbert Hoover bas most Divine a lawyer who settled inl\Iichigan where he
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graciously given her consent to have this material printed in
helped draft the first constitution of that Sta1P.
this periodical. The arrangement was made by the editor who
accepts res ·b·t·ty ~ 7. Nancy Minthorn, md. Ernest Van Epps b. 23 1\Iarch
ponst 1 1 J.Or the clarity of presentation and for 1776.
errors of transcription. The material as it relates to Ontario
8. Norman Minthorn b. 25 Feb 1778 in Connecticut. He
bas been fuUy extracted from the genealogy compiled by Mrs
l\lcLean, but many add't· 1 1 . . md. Maria Mabie of Schenectady and they raised
t wna mes m the American and Eng-
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hsh ancestry of H Id ,~, . a family at Watertown, N. Y.
u a n'hnthorn Will be found in that work.
l\·Irs McLean · t 9. James Minthorn.
pom s out that the weakest line in the Ontario
ancestry of President H .
researcher h oover lS the Sherwood ancestry. A H III. John Minthorn, b. 4 Oct 1768(9 ?) near Hartford. Conn.
w o could pre t .
line would be . sen an authoritative article on thts e d. 17 Dec 1859 John lived near Lindsay and near Toronto
performmg a s . f
ealogy, ervtee or North American gen- With his father and. brothers. He subsequentry settled in Mari-

Mary (Wasley) Minthorn Po~a, Victoria County. He and his wife are buried in the Little
President Hoover d was the maternai grandmother of Brtt · · d
atn Cemetery near Oakwood. He md. in Canada. Lucm a
article by K w T' an the Wasley line is presented in a fine Sherwood b. 13 Nov 1794. Her father \vas said to ha\·e been
h · · otten corn .
t e need of print· mencmg page 208 which obviates 'I'holllas Sherwood a nephew of one of the Judg·es Sherwood.
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Totten for first rnak· . ere · The edi tor is indebted to Mr Rer mother was Endymia Winn. Lucinda d. 1 ï Apn b:J •
a rio famuy connect· tng hun aware of President Hoover' s ont-
tons (see 1 1. John Wesley l\Jinthorn, 1812-U101. had sons Lyman
p. 54 of this volume).
and Albert.