JULIAN, ISAAC HOOVER: 1823-?
Isaac Hoover Julian , son of Isaac and Rebecca Hoover Julian and younger brother of George Washington Julian, was born near Centerville, Ind., on June 19, 1823. He was chiefly self-educated. In 1846 he moved to Iowa, but he returned to Indiana in 1850, settled in Centerville, and was admitted to the bar in 1851.
From 1858 to 1872 he edited THE TRUE REPUBLICAN, first published in Centerville and later in Richmond, Ind. He moved to San Marcos, Tex., in 1873, where he edited the FREE PRESS for seventeen years and the PEOPLE'S ERA until June of 1900. Mr. Julian was a leader in anti-slavery and temperance movements and was an early contributor to periodicals. He was married first to Virginia M. Spillard, who died in 1873, and in 1893 he married Isabel McCoy Harvey.
Information from Who Was Who in America and Appletons" Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 111.
- Memoir of David Hoover. Richmond,
Ind., 1857.
- Sketches of the Early History of the Whitewater
Valley. n.p., 1857.
- Late-Gathered Leaves in Verse and Prose.
- Outline History of the Julian and Hoover Families.
- Eustace and Caroline; a Pastoral Tale. San
Marcos, Tex., 1901.
- Samples of the Briefer Poems of ….
San Marcos, Tex., 1903.
