![]() ![]() ![]() He was well mentored at Harvard by geologist John Casper Branner. Herbert Hoover studied geology and mechanical engineering at Stanford University, beginning there when Stanford first opened in 1891. Herbert was fourteen when he left school and began work as a clerk for his uncle’s real estate business while attending night school. Hoover describes his uncle as a “ natural teacher ” (12) if somewhat emotionally distant. According to some, the Minthorns “ treated him coldly and loaded him down with chores ” (Lemann). The Minthorns lived at Newberg, Oregon, at the time a Quaker settlement and now home to George Fox University. Then, in 1884, ten-year-old Herbert was sent by train to live with his maternal uncle Henry, a country doctor, and aunt Laura Minthorn, who had recently lost a son. The boy was taken to live with a paternal uncle, Allen Hoover, who had a farm close by, while Herbert’s sister and brother were separated and taken to other relatives. His father, Jesse Hoover, died when Herbert was six, and his mother, Hulda Minthorn Hoover, when Herbert was nine. Herbert Clark Hoover was born into a Quaker family in West Branch, Iowa. Thirty-first president of the United States, Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), was in kinship care as a child. ![]()
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