Hoover Historical Center Hosts Reunion of World War II Evacuee Families
28 October 2026
During World War II, the Hoover Company relocated 84 children of its British employees to live with families in North Canton, Ohio. Megan Pellegrino, director of Walsh University’s Hoover Historical Center, recently helped to organize a reunion of multiple generations of these foster families with descendants of the foster children. The son and daughter of Vina Wales, one of the 84 evacuees, attended the gathering on behalf of their mother, who is since deceased. Read the Canton Repository’s coverage of this remarkable slice of Hoover history.
