Herbert Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa on August 10, 1874. He was the second of three children, born to quakers parents. He was also the first president to be born west of the Mississippi River. By the age of nine both of his parents had died and he and his siblings went to Oregon and were raised by their uncle. Hoover attended Stanford University in 1891 and graduated in 1895 with a degree in geology. He became a mining engineer who travelled around the world mining minerals and as a result of hard work and determination, became a multimillionaire. In February of 1899 he married his college sweetheart Lou Henry and together they had 2 children.
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