Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Hoyer, Samuel M. March 13, 1856 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

SAMUEL M. HOYER,
a well known and popular coal dealer in Altoona, who has been a resident of
that city since 1880, is a son of Jacob and Mary (Dimond) Hoyer, and was born
March 13, 1856, in Croyle township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania.  The Hoyers
are of German-Scotch descent, but have resided in our sister commonwealth of
Maryland for several generations. In that state Jacob Hoyer, sr., the
paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born and reared. He
was a farmer by occupation, and in 1840 removed to Cambria county, this
state, where he resided until his death, in 1872, at the ripe old age of
eighty-eight years. He was a democrat in politics, was married, and had a
family of six children. One of these, the only son, was Jacob Hoyer, jr., who
was also a native of Maryland, where he grew to manhood, and received an
ordinary English education. When twenty-three years of age, in 1847, he
removed to Cambria county, this state, and has been a resident of that county
ever since. He has devoted his life to agricultural pursuits, in which he has
been very successful, and now owns a fine farm in Croyle township, that
county, on which he is spending the evening of his days in quietude and
comfort, being now in his sixty-eighth year. He is a democrat in politics,
and at various times has been elected to and served in different township
offices. He married Mary Dimond, and reared a family of eleven children. She
is a native of Croyle township, Cambria county, and is now in the sixty-third
year of her age. She is a member of the Roman Catholic church.
    Samuel M. Hoyer was reared on his father's farm, in Cambria county, and
inured to labor from his early years. He attended the public schools of his
neighborhood, where he obtained a good common school education, and when
twenty-two years of age, forsook the farm and engaged in coal mining. After
following this occupation for some time, he began mining and dealing in coal
on his own account, and in 1880 removed to Altoona, where, on August 1st, he
opened a retail coal business, under the firm name of C. A. Dimond & Co. At
that time he was also operating a mine near South Fork, Cambria county, with
the firm of C. A. Dimond & Co. In 1882 Mr. Dimond disposed of his interest in
the business to S. S. Reighard, and the firm name became Hoyer & Reighard. Ten
months later Mr. Hoyer purchased his partner's share of the enterprise, and
has since conducted it in his own name, being very successful in building up
a large and prosperous business.
    On the 24th of October, 1881, Mr. Hoyer was married to Clara D.
McClelland, a daughter of John and Elizabeth McClelland, of Bells Mills, this
county. To their union has been born a family of six children, five sons and a
daughter: Mary Jeneva, James Graham, Charles Jacob, Walter Aloisis, Roy
McClellan, and Clod Joseph.
    In politics Mr. Hoyer follows the traditions of his family, and is an
ardent and active democrat, as were his father and grandfather before him. He
is serving a term as a member of the select council from the Sixth ward of
Altoona, and has served as chairman of the committee on streets and sewers.
He takes an interest in all public questions, and is a man who keeps well
posted in regard to political movements and the world's progress, and is at
present serving a two-year term as president of the select council of
Altoona..

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