Mr. Herbert Clark Hoover of Oakland, California 1896 [manuscripts]

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Mr. Herbert Clark Hoover of Oakland, California 1896 [manuscripts]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/671373027

Typescript document, 12 pp, with biographical data of Hoover's earlier years in Iowa, Oregon and Oakland, California; Photograph of Hoover's house in Oakland, California, at the time he first registered to vote in 1896.

.02 cubic feet (2 folders)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...