Hi, my mother's father's name was Huber, and to my knowledge they came over from Germany (Bavaria?) in the mid-1800s. They appeared to come over straight to St. Louis and never left, being prominent members of the north city community called "Butchertown". My great-great grandfather John Phillip Huber arrived as a child or young man and eventually married a young lady named Magdelena Kimmling. His father is named John according to John Phillip's death certificate, but I have yet to find him in any other records.
My grt grandfather was John Washington Hoover his father was John Hoover who came from Ohio and migrated from N C He was a Quaker and spoke German is said to have come from Switzerland. We do not know who his father was, but he had a brother named Peter. The name was Huber and changed spelling to Hoover apon arriving in U S A. beverwat@yahoo.com