Gregor Jonas Huber (abt. 1668 - 1741)

Born about 6 Jul 1668 in Oberkulm, Aargau, Switzerland [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Maria (Kreutzer) Huber — married 1698 in Ellerstadt, Grafschaft Wartenberg, Heiliges Römisches Reich [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 13 Apr 1741 at about age 72 in Ellerstadt, Grafschaft Wartenberg, Heiliges Römisches Reich

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Gregor Huber is of Swiss descent

Biography

This profile is part of the Hoover Name Study.

The unsourced Compendium of American Genealogy records that the father of Andreas Huber (1723-1794) was (Gregor) Jonas Huber, son of Johannes Heinrich Huber of Bern, Switzerland, and that Jonas left Switzerland for the German Palatinate.^[1][2]

Birth : Gregor Jonas Huber is variously reported to have been born :

• on 6 July 1668 ^[1]
• on 6 Aug 1668 in Oberkulm, Aargau in the Old Swiss Confederacy (now Switzerland) to parents Johann Heinrich Huber and Maria Margaretta Hoffman (earlier version of profile, unsourced)
• on 6 Jul 1668 in Obkirchen, Sankt Johann im Pongau Bezirk, Salzburg, Austria ^[3]

Immigration / Emigration : He immigrated to the German Palatinate ^[1][2] in 1698 "due to Swiss Pietist persecution". An often-quoted but unsourced text appears to record his arrival in Switzerland rather than in the German Palatinate :

When a youth, with his father, uncle and brothers, Gregor came to Switzerland in a boat, or on a raft, down the rivers Wynen, Aare and Rhile.

Marriage and children : He is reported to have married either Anna Maria Hartman or Anna Maria Kreutzer c.1698 in either the German Palatinate or Pennsylvania.^[1][4] Further evidence is needed to clarify. They are reported to have been the parents of 11 children :

1. Anna Eva Huber (1699-1701) ^[5]
2. Johann Heinrich Huber (1702-1703)
3. Anna Maria Huber (1703-1774)
4. Johannes Huber (1704-1784)
5. Johan Michael Conradt Huber (1706-1772)
6. Conrad Huber (1708-1784)
7. Christian Huber (1710- bef. 1779)
8. Anna Elisabeth Huber (later Bentz) (1715-1774) (twin with John Paul)
9. John Paul Huber (1715-1741) (twin with Anna Elisabeth)
10. Anna Barbara Huber (b. 1719)
11. Andreas Huber (Hoover) (1723-1793) ^[1][2][6]

Death : Gregor Jonas died on 13 Apr 1741 in Ellerstadt.^[1][3] His presumed death and burial record in Ellerstadt reads as follows: den 13t April ist Jonas Huber gestorben und den 15. begraben. Seines Alters 73 Jahr weniger 4 Monat (the 13th of April passed away Jonas Huber, he was buried on the 15th. He was aged 73 years minus 4 months [this would give a calculated birth date of about August 1668]) ^[7]

Research Notes

There is no marriage record for a Gregor Jonas Huber or similar in the 1690s/1700s in Ellerstadt, the 1698 record is for a Johann Kilian Hübner. ^[8]

Gregor's profile is effectively unsourced, since no primary evidence is provided. If the details can be assumed to be correct, then he was the fourth great-grandfather of Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st President of the United States^[9] and the paternal sixth great-grandfather of Michael Richard Pence, the 48th Vice President of the United States.^[10] (This text should be removed if the details are demonstrated to be incorrect.)

Lancaster Mennonite Vital Records record that Johannes Huber, son of Gregor Jonas and Anna Marie Huber was born in Ellerstadt, and died in Frederick County (presumably MD) in 1799. ^[11] This conflicts with the list currently (Mar 2023) provided of Gregor's children.

Earlier version of profile included note : "H Hoover McLean_p47"

Huber Hof : noch heute besteht in Ellerstadt das Anwesen des sogenannten Huber-Hofes in der Ludwigstraße 20. Ein ehemaliger Bauernhof, dem die Vorfahren des Amerikanischen Präsidenten Herbert Clark Hoover (1874 bis 1964) entstammten, welcher von 1928 bis 1932 der 31. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika war. Am Huber-Hof erinnert an der zur Ludwigstraße gelegenen Stirnseite des Wohnhauses eine Relief-Inschrift an den berühmten Nachfahren der Familie Huber.

Huber Hof : the so-called Huber-Hof property still exists in Ellerstadt at Ludwigstrasse 20. A former farm where the ancestors of the American President Herbert Clark Hoover (1874 to 1964), 31st President of the United States from 1928 to 1932, came from. At the Huber-Hof, on the front side of the residential building facing Ludwigstrasse, a relief inscription commemorates the famous descendants of the Huber family.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} The Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. IV, p.17 (image 15/701) viewed at https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/48080/images/CompAmGenIV-002678-17
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} The Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. VII, p.464 (image 317/798) viewed at https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/48083/images/CompAmGenVII-005921-464
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} UNSOURCED Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176774814/gregor-jonas-huber: accessed 03 March 2023), memorial page for Gregor Jonas Huber (6 Jul 1668–23 Apr 1741), Find A Grave: Memorial #176774814; Burial Details Unknown; Maintained by Shirley Jackson (contributor 47618783).
4. ↑ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Author: Yates Publishing Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004 :
   • Gregor Jonas Huber b.1668 SW m.1698 PA Anna Maria Hartman
   • Gregor Jonas Huber, b.1668 Sz m. Anna Marie Kreutzer (b.1675)
5. ↑ Pfalz: Zentralarchiv der Evangelischen Kirche, Bad Dürkheim, Ellerstadt. Taufen, Trauungen, Beerdigungen, Sonstiges 1686-1767. Mikrofiche 11/1-3, Image 38/158. Retrieved from Archion, 27 Oct 2023: http://www.archion.de/p/a50083ce8b/
6. ↑ Pfalz: Zentralarchiv der Evangelischen Kirche, Bad Dürkheim, Ellerstadt. Taufen, Trauungen, Beerdigungen, Sonstiges 1686-1767. Mikrofiche 11/1-3, Image 57/158. Retrieved from Archion, 27 Oct 2023: http://www.archion.de/p/21b5060917/
7. ↑ Pfalz: Zentralarchiv der Evangelischen Kirche, Bad Dürkheim, Ellerstadt. Taufen, Trauungen, Beerdigungen, Sonstiges 1686-1767. Mikrofiche 11/1-3, Image 144/158. Retrieved from Archion, 27 Oct 2023: http://www.archion.de/p/d9f73215d3/
8. ↑ Pfalz: Zentralarchiv der Evangelischen Kirche, Bad Dürkheim, Ellerstadt. Taufen, Trauungen, Beerdigungen, Sonstiges 1686-1767. Mikrofiche 11/1-3, Image 107/158. Retrieved from Archion, 27 Oct 2023: http://www.archion.de/p/8281173803/
9. ↑ WikiTree Relationship between Gregor Jonas Huber (1668-1741) and Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964).
10. ↑ WikiTree Relationship between Gregor Jonas Huber (1668-1741) and Michael Richard Pence (b. 1959).
11. ↑ Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014, citing "Joanne Hoover, 644 Coleman Pl, Westfield, NJ; 1978", viewed at https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/60592/images/43954_345997-00272