Herbert Hoover Jesse Hoover moved from Ohio with his father Eli, in 1854. They traveled by river boat and covered wagon to a farm outside West Branch, Iowa, a small town founded by Quakers. In 1870, Jesse, now the town blacksmith, married Hulda Minthorn, a teacher from Ontario, Canada. The Hoovers began a family in a small cottage by the Wapsinonoc Creek. Their first son Theodore (Tad, 1871) was followed on August 10, 1874 by another boy, Herbert Clark Hoover (…showed first 75 words of 4492 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4492 total…do. He spent the next years writing articles and books. On his 88th birthday the Hoover Presidential Library was dedicated in West Branch, Iowa. Herbert Hoover died on October 20, 1964. He had given 50 years of his life to service for humankind. "Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one." Quoted from Herbert Hoover On Growing Up: Letters from and to American Children; ed. by Timothy Walch, William Morrow &Co., 1990.