Conrad Hoover and wife emigrated to Pennsylvania from Germany, and settled in York county. Martin Hoover, his son was the first of the family to come to Clearfield county. In 1801 he came and made a location on land now known as the Boynton farm. He, however, made large purchases of lands up Montgomery Creek, and built a saw mill, where McPhersons’s mill is now located.

He was an energetic, thrifty and prosperous man. In 1814, he was sent to the Legislature. Some time after he was appointed County Treasurer, by the Governor of the State.