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President Hoover

            Herbert Hoover was born on August 1, 1874 in West Branch, Iowa. He was the second born of three children. His parents, Jesse Clark Hoover and Huldah Randall Minthorn, were devout Quakers. When Herbert Hoover was six year s of age his father died of Typhoid fever, and about three years later his mother died of pneumonia. In 1884, after the death of their mother, the three children moved to Newberg, Oregon, with Henry John Minthorn, their mother’s brother who is a doctor. In Newberg, Hoover worked on a farm and he attended a Quaker academy that his uncle helped direct.

            In 1888, he worked as an office boy in a land settlement office in Salem and he studied mathematics attending night school. His professor of math, Joseph Swain, helped him gain admittance to the Leland Stanford Junior University in Palo Alto, California. He worked his way through college, typing, doing laundry and working as a secretary for a geology professor. During his senior year, he met a geology student from Iowa, Lou Henry, who would later become his wife. Hoover graduated with his bachelor’s degree in mining engineering in May 1895.