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Subject: Daniel HOY
Date: 1 Jul 2006 08:34:25 -0600

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Surnames: Kincheloe, Hoy, Clark, Cowell, Stagg
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Daniel HOY
From "LINCOLN The Capitol City and Lancaster County, Nebraska"
Published Chicago, Illinois
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1916

Daniel Hoy, who is farming on section 31, Grant precinct, has never had
occasion to regret his choice of an occupation for he has found agricultural
pursuits both congenial and profitable. He was born in Pennsylvania in
March 1843, the son of William and Elizabeth (Cowell) Hoy, natives of
Pennsylvania. The father, who was a farmer, removed to West Virginia in
early manhood and located in Wood county, where his death occurred in 1848.
The mother survived for more than half a century, dying in 1900. Daniel Hoy
was reared and educated in West Virginia and in 1862, at the age of nineteen
years, enlisted in Company D, Fourteenth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry with
which he served for two years and ten months, or until the close of the struggle
between the north and the south.

He then farmed in West Virginia until 1872 when he removed to Kansas, whence
he went to Missouri. After farming in the latter state for nine months he returned
to West Virginia where he remained until 1883, in which year he came to
Lancaster county, Nebraska. He bought eighty acres of land in Saltillo precinct,
which he operated for five years, but at the end of that time purchased a similar
tract on section 31, Grant precinct, to which he later added an adjoining eighty acres.
He also purchased eighty acres on section 32 and has brought all his land to a high
state of development, making all of the improvements upon the farm, which has
become one of the valuable properties of the locality. He is still operating his land
and derives a good income from the sale of his grain and stock.

Mr. Hoy was united in marriage on the 30th of January 1866, to Miss Sarah
Kincheloe, a daughter of Lawrence and Lettie (Stagg) Kincheloe, natives of Virginia.
To Mr. and Mrs. Hoy have been born twelve children, namely: Lawrence B., who is
farming in Grant precinct; Mary, the wife of L. E. Renard, a resident of Council
Bluffs, Iowa; Violet, who married C. E. Butterfield, a resident of Oregon; William,
who died on the 24th of February, 1914; Myrtle, the wife of J. H. Kincheloe, a
resident of South Dakota; Gertrude Elizabeth, the wife of Elmer Jenkins, of
Mitchell, Nebraska; Albert, also a resident of that town; Ernest W. and James B.,
farmers of this county; Charles Otto and Andrew M., who are associated with
their father in the operation of the home place; and Mazie L., who died in 1913.

Mr. Hoy is independent in politics, refusing to follow the dictates of a party
leader, and he studies carefully the questions and issues of the day so that he
may cast his ballot intelligently. He served as assessor of Grant precinct for one
year and made an excellent record in that capacity. For twelve years he was a
member of the school board. His religious faith is that of the United Brethren church
and he is connected with the Knights of Pythias and the Grand Army of the Republic.
His farming operations demand the greater part of his attention but he has also
served as agent for the Lancaster County Farmers Mutual Insurance Company for
twenty years, and has secured many policy holders for that organization. He is in
excellent circumstances and in addition to his farm owns stock in the Bank of Roca.
The success which he has gained is doubly creditable in that it is the direct result
of his own efforts.
Submitted by Kathie Harrison
(descendant of Sarah Kincheloe Hoy's sister, Iva Kincheloe Clark).

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