When Martin Van Buren Hoover was born on 28 November 1889, in Kansas, United States, his father, Abraham Hoover, was 33 and his mother, Martha Ann Rutherford, was 28. He had at least 1 daughter with Alice Mae Sherman Hoover. He died on 15 October 1971, in Sapulpa, Creek, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 81.