BIO: DANIEL HOY, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 322-324
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    DANIEL HOY. The earliest ancestor of record in this branch of the Hoy
  family is John Hoy, the paternal grandfather of Daniel Hoy, who moved from
  Berks to Dauphin county, where he followed the occupation of farming. He was
  the father of twelve children, six sons and six daughters: Jacob, Henry,
  John, Peter, Christian, Daniel, Sallie, Mary, Susan, Leah and two whose names
  are not known. Henry Hoy, son of John, and father of

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  Daniel, received his education in the common schools of Dauphin county, where
  he was born. When twenty-five years of age he married Miss Julia Ann
  Rumbarger, daughter of Adam Rumbarger, a resident of Dauphin county, near
  Uniontown, and six children blessed their union: (1) Hannah married John
  Kiehl, of Carlisle, and had seven children: George married Eliza Quigley;
  William died in the West; John Wesley died in Altoona; Philip married Anna
  Smith, and lives in Carlisle; Mary died in childhood; Jane and Edward are
  unmarried and at home. (2) Adam married Sarah Shank, daughter of David Shank,
  of Silver Spring township, and they had ten children: John Wesley, living in
  North Middleton township; Elizabeth, who died when two and a half years old;
  David, a blacksmith of Sulphur Springs; Tolbert, who was killed at Steelton;
  Samuel, at home; Margaret, married to John Brown, of North Middleton
  township; Jesse Addison, who died in infancy; Rebecca, married to Wesley
  Fiester, of Steelton; Rose, married to George Greiner and living in
  Steelton; and Sarah, who married Henry Stringfellow, of Carlisle. (3)
  William married Martha Smith, daughter of Isaac Smith, of Middlesex township,
  and of the eight children born to them six are living, twins having died:
  Henry lives in Steelton; Albert lives in Harrisburg; Clarence lives at home;
  John lives at home; Irene married Charles Schlebach, and lives in Harrisburg;
  Mabel lives at home. (4) Daniel is our subject. (5) John Henry married Amanda
  Schaeffer, of Dillsburg, and they are the parents of six living children:
  Mervin married Lubertha Jackson, of Carlisle, and lives in Mechanicsburg;
  Harvey is a telegraph operator; Mattie married Otis Bender, and they live in
  York; Grace, Pearl and Eva are at home. (6) Julia A. married Isaac Brubaker,
  of Lancaster county, and they had three children: May (who died at the age of
  eighteen years), Walter and Robert.

    Daniel Hoy was born in Dauphin county, Pa., Jan. 8, 1848, and received his
  education in the common schools of Silver Spring township, attending until he
  was sixteen years of age. He then worked on the farm for his father until he
  was twenty-four, after which he learned the tanning trade, following same
  until he was about twenty-eight. In the meanwhile his father died, and Daniel
  returned to the farm and conducted it for his mother and sister. Thus he
  continued for three years more, when for a year he engaged in tanning, having
  sold the homestead, but he then purchased the farm he now owns, and resided
  upon it for eight years. He then purchased. a tannery which he operated for
  fifteen years, when he returned to his farm, and has here made his home for
  the past six years. Mr. Hoy cultivates 138 acres of land, all of which is
  highly improved and yields excellent returns upon the investment.

    On Oct. 24, 1875, Mr. Hoy married Margaret Jane Babble, daughter of Henry
  C. and Isabella (Wertz) Babble, of Middlesex township, and seven children
  have been born of this union: Bertha Florence married Abraham Greisinger, a
  farmer of Silver Spring township; Emma Catherine married Christian Myers, of
  Silver Spring, and has one child, Robert; Blanche Ellen, Robert Henry, Ember
  and Nevin are all at home.

    Mr. Hoy is a consistent member of the United Brethren Church, of which he
  is trustee. He has been a lifelong Democrat, and held the office of school
  director for a number of years, and in 1900 was a popular candidate for
  nomination for the office of

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  sheriff. His success in his various occupations is largely due to the fact
  that he is a man of thrifty habits, energetic and enter-prising, and has
  worked faithfully and industriously. He is a good provider, taking a pride in
  his home and family, and can be truly said to be a thoroughly representative
  citizen of Cumberland county.