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From: Hoover Heritage Commemorative Calendar, June 2006
JOHN C. HOOVER HOUSE
This house with its gingerbread or bargeboard was built, probably by John C. Hoover, shortly after he purchased the property on September 10, 1870. This south 100 acres of Lot 24, Concession 1, Walpole was probably the first inhabited land in this area as Daniel Hoover tells us Captain John Dochstader had a clearing on the front of this lot where he carried on a trade with the Indians about the year 1780. Dochstader received this land as part of his allotment for his services to the British Government during the American War of Independence. Jacob Hoover's daughter Susannah received this land when it was transferred from Dochstader to the Hoovers and she and her husband George Wolfe resided here. Wolfe was a fuller and operated a carding and fulling mill here, a low dam probably running across the creek about where the old Lover's Lane Bridge crossed. Nothing remains of the bridge but a stone abutment on the east side of the creek. Wolfe lost his land, Lot 23, Concession 2, Rainham, to the Forfeited Estates Commission after the War of 1812 but this land remained in his wife's name. In 1836 George and Susannah Wolfe sold the land to her niece, Susannah Hoover and her husband George Boyer/Byers who again operated the carding mill. The land remained in the Hoover family, belonging to one branch or another, until 1951. On February 7, 1978 the house and property were purchased by Ted Bishop who resides there still.
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Rainham Builders
1825 - 1897 (72 years)