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Hoover Mill - 1859

Located on North River, Allen Township, Township 77N, Range 23W, in the middle of the SW quarter of section 4.

[Zoom in on this 1859 map of Allen Township (provided by the Library of Congress) to see surrounding areas.]

Keeney & Hoover Mill is shown on this 1859 map. In 1851 Joseph Keeney bought nearly 162 acres of land in Allen Township, section 4 (on which this mill was located). In the 1860 census Joseph Keeney was age 50, born around 1810 in Indiana. According to the birthplaces of his six children, the family had lived in Iowa since 1848.

When Mills Played an Important Part in Warren County, by Edith L. Conn (date unknown, booklet at the Warren County Historical Society Library)
Ephraim A. Hoover was a native of North Carolina.  He went to Indiana when a young man, where he met and married Julia A. Howry, a native of Ohio.  There he lived a number of years, farming and operating a lumber and flour mill. In 1850 he disposed of his milling interests and moved to Warren County, Iowa where he located near Spring Hill.  He later purchased a saw and grist mill on North River which he ran for six years, when he sold it and farmed for a couple of years.  He then purchased a saw-mill in Greenfield Township which he ran until his death in 1865.