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Herbert Hoover: West Branch
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Herbert Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa on August 10, 1874 to Jesse and Hulda Hoover. His father worked as a blacksmith and farm-implement dealer and his mother was a very pious woman who eventually adopted Quakerism. Hoover's idyllic childhood was shattered at the age of six when both of his parents died within a three month period. The rest of his youth was spent with his maternal uncle and aunt, John and Laura Minthorn, who took him into their home in Newberg, Oregon.
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Herbert Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa. Hoover almost died at the age of two from croup. When young Hoover was six, his father died. His mother died when he was nine and from that time on, he lived with various relatives. He ended up living with his uncle, a doctor in Oregon.
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Herbert Clark Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa, on August 10, 1874. He was the son of Jesse Clark and Huldah Minthorn Hoover, both of whom were Quakers. His father worked as a blacksmith and storekeeper, and died when the boy was six. His mother died two years later. Relatives cared for Herbert, his brother Theodore, and his sister, May.
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Herbert Hoover was born on August tenth, 1874, West Branch, Iowa. Herbert had an older brother and a little sister. As Hoover was growing up, he did hard chores while he only got a penny for every chore he did.
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Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa, on August 10, 1874. He was the second of three children of Jesse Hoover, a blacksmith, and Hulda Randall Minthorn Hoover. His parents were Quakers. When Herbert was 6, his father died of heart disease and typhoid fever. Less than three years later his mother died of pneumonia, and Herbert went to live with an uncle, Allan Hoover, who had a farm near West Branch. For a year he led a carefree life on his uncle's farm.
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HERBERT CLARK HOOVER was born on August 1, 1874 in West Branch, Iowa, the second of three children of devote Quakers. His father, Jesse Clark Hoover was the village blacksmith, and his mother was Huldah Randall Minthorn. When young Hoover was only six years old, his father died of typhoid fever and less than three years later, his mother died of pneumonia. In 1884, the children moved to Newberg, Oregon to live with their mother’s brother, Henry John Minthorn, a country doctor who had a strong interest in education. In Newberg, Hoover worked on a farm and he attended a Quaker academy that his uncle helped direct.
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