[Edward Benjamin Hoover]

Santa Barbara Morning Press   Friday    July 24, 1931    p. 5

Death Claims S. B. Educator

Edward B. Hoover, Founder of Business College, Seized by Sudden Stroke

 Edward B. [enjamin] Hoover, founder and president of the Santa Barbara Business College, died yesterday morning in his home at 1536 Laguna Street.  He was stricken while at the school and died soon after he had been taken home.  Mr. Hoover established the Santa Barbara Business College in 1888 and had served as its president since that time.  He was devoted to his students, always showing a fatherly interest in them.  He was himself a student and was deeply interested in art and literature. He was born on December 26, 1863, in Bedford, Iowa, of an old and distinguished family, which traces its ancestry to the period of the reformation in Germany.  It was one of his mother's ancestors who, in 1717, built the first German Lutheran church in Philadelphia, a landmark which is still standing.  Another ancestor, [John] Justus Henkle, built and maintained Henkle Fort in Virginia, in Revolutionary days.

Son Returns in 1888

The Hoover family came to Santa Barbara in 1872 and bought a 25-acre tract in Mission Canyon.  They returned east, but in 1888 the son came back to establish himself here permanently.  He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Martha Lloyd Hoover; two daughters, Mrs. Horace F. [rederick] Pierce [Shirley] of Santa Barbara and Mrs. Richard Eldon Russell [Helen] of Los Angeles; a brother, Clinton D. [ewitt] Hoover, of Santa Cruz, who was at one time associated with him in the college; and a sister, Miss Leonora Hoover, of Santa Cruz. The body is at the McDermott funeral home, from which arrangements for the funeral will be announced.

[Martha Lloyd Hoover]

Santa Barbara News-Press

 Saturday evening, December 1, 1951    p. B-3

Funeral Notices

Hoover, Mrs. E. B. (Martha L.)----Mother of Mrs. Horace Pierce [Shirley] and Mrs. Dick Russell [Helen].  Private services will be conducted by Dr. George Hall at 2 p.m. Monday at the graveside in the Santa Barbara Cemetery.  Please omit flowers.  Welch & Ryce, Funeral Directors.

[Martha Lloyd Hoover]

Santa Barbara News-Press

Sunday morning    December 2, 1951    p. A-7

Mrs. Martha Lloyd Hoover Services Set Tomorrow

Private graveside services will be conducted tomorrow in the family plot at Santa Barbara Cemetery for Mrs. Martha Lloyd Hoover, who died early yesterday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Horace F. [rederick] Pierce [Shirley], on the Vista del Mundo Ranch.  Dr. George Hall, rector of All Saints By-the-Sea Episcopal Church, will officiate.

Mrs. Hoover, who had been identified with Santa Barbara since the early '90s, had been ill for more than two years and had been bedridden for a year and a half.  She had lived with her daughter for 10 years.

Born in Salem, N. J., the daughter of David Washington and Sarah Newell Lloyd, as a young woman she attended the Trenton School for Young Ladies, the forerunner of what is now Trenton Teachers College.

In 1891 she came to California with a letter of introduction to Adolph Millard of Marin County, who was known throughout the world at that time as the confidante and traveling companion of Joseph Bonaparte.

After a short stay with the Millard family, she went to Ben Lomond, where her brother owned and operated a hotel.  In 1893 she came to Santa Barbara and here she met Edward Benjamin Hoover and the couple was married Dec. 26, 1895, in Ben Lomond.  Mr. Hoover died here in July 1931.

The couple made their wedding trip to Santa Barbara via stagecoach over the San Marcos Pass, stopping for the night at Mattei's Tavern in Los Olivos before making the arduous trip over the mountain.  At Cold Spring, where the stage stopped to change horses, Mr. Hoover expressed delight over the beauty of the spot and a desire to own it some day, a wish that he later was able to fulfill.

Mr. Hoover served for more than 40 years as owner and director of the Santa Barbara Business College.  He first became identified with it as a young teacher in 1887.  Shortly after, the owner put him in charge while, he said, he was going to take a short trip.  He never returned, and left behind him a large number of debts.  The young schoolmaster continued to manage the school, paid off the debts and took over ownership.  He was active in it until his death.

Mrs. Hoover was a former member of the old Shakespeare Club, and when it developed into the Santa Barbara Woman's Club, she continued her membership in that organization.

In addition to Mrs. Pierce, she is survived by another daughter, Mrs. Richard E. [ldon] Russell [Helen] of Toro Canyon; a sister, Miss Grace S. Lloyd of Brownbrook, N. J.; two brothers, Carl Williams Lloyd of Brownbrook, and Joel Parker Lloyd of Hadden Heights, N. J.; a brother-in-law, Clinton Dewitt Hoover of Santa Cruz, and a grandson, Sterling Hoover Pierce, a student at Stanford University.