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Herbert Hoover: Geology
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Hoover earned his way through school by doing typing chores for Professor John Casper Branner, who ... got him a summer job mapping the terrain in Arkansas' Ozark Mountains. It was in Branner's geology lab that he met Lou Henry, a banker's daughter born in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1874. Lou shared her fellow Iowan's love of the outdoors and self-reliant nature. "It isn't so important what others think of you as what you feel inside yourself," she told college friends.
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Hoover was born in Iowa in 1874. He was a corn farmer until 1891, when he moved to California, attended Stanford University, and in 1895 graduated with a b.s. degree in geology.
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Hoover worked his way through Stanford University, where he earned a degree in geology. He decided to become a mining engineer and made a fortune by developing silver mines. In 1914, he was worth an estimated $14 million.
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