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Branch: Ray's Extended Family Tree |
Jesse Clark Hoover | 2 SEP 1846 -- 13 DEC 1880 | |
Hulda Randall Minthorn | 4 MAY 1848 -- 22 FEB 1884 |
Charles Delano Henry | 20 JUL 1845 -- 21 JUL 1928 | |
Florence Ida Weed | 1849 -- 1921 |
Marriage | 10 FEB 1899 | ![]() |
Birth | 10 AUG 1874 | |||
Education | 1895 | ![]() | ||
Org. | 1920 | ![]() | American Institute of Mining Engineers, President | |
Occup | 1921-1928 | USA Secretary of Commerce | ![]() | |
Election | 1928 | USA Presidential Election | ![]() | |
Occup | 1929-1933 | ![]() | ||
Election | 1932 | USA Presidential Election | ![]() | |
Election | 1940 | USA Presidential Election | ![]() | |
Death | 20 OCT 1964 | |||
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Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa, of a very poor Quaker family. When he was a boy his mother died and there is a scene of the family gathered around the bedside in prayer. His father could not take care of the children, so they were "farmed out" to other members of the family. Hoover went to live with an uncle in Oregon. When he grew up he went to Stanford University. There he worked his way through school. He carried newspapers, mowed lawns, waited on tables. He would do anything that was honorable. He graduated as a mining engineer and, as the speakers at commencement exercises always say, went out into the world. In his case it was literally so. He went to Australia, New Zealand, China, and Europe. He was looking for minerals. I don't... Read More
Birth | 29 MAR 1874 | |||
Education | 1898 | ![]() | ||
Org. | 21 APR 1924 | ![]() | Time Magazine Cover | |
Occup | 1929-1933 | USA First Lady | ![]() | |
Death | 7 JAN 1944 | |||
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Children | First Name | Birth Dt | Death Dt | Birth Place | Spouses | |
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1+ | Herbert Clark | 4 AUG 1903 | 9 JUL 1969 | England, Middlesex, London | Margaret Eva Watson | |
2+ | Allan Henry | 17 JUL 1907 | 4 NOV 1993 | England, Middlesex, London | Margaret Coberly |
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![]() | Charles Curtis | Vice President | |
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![]() | Warren Gamaliel Harding | Appointed Secretary of Commerce |
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