Herbert Hoover Home - Museum - Library - in West Branch - Iowa

Hoover was born in this cute tiny home.

Herbert and Lou Helen Hoover are buried here.

Herbert Hoover was born in the middle of nowhere in West Branch - Iowa. His parents died very young - a Herbert and this brother and sister were farmed out to an uncle in Oregon. He was raised in the Quaker faith. They have collected several buildings and produced a neat village around his boyhood home. 

He was born in this little 2 room cabin. It had an outhouse toilet. 

Hoover was an average student but excelled in math. That got him into the first class at Stanford University. He changed his major from math to engineering and geology. He was a successful mining engineer - and took a good job in Australia then China. He came wealthy. 

He got a job in the Department of Commerce and became famous for managing help programs after World War One. He rose to the job of Secretary of Commerce. He was a good president - except the Great Depression started during his one term. He was blamed and Franklin Roosevelt won the next election. 

Lou Henry Hoover was the wife of the president. She went to college at UCLA - then got her teaching certificate at San Jose State. She went back to Stanford for an advanced degree in Geology - and met her future husband there. They worked and traveled together. As First Lady she advocated women's rights. She died 20 years before her husband from cancer. 

They are buried together - on site - in West Branch - Iowa. 

Hoover was the owl.

Hoover rose up from nothing.

Hoover school test had a computer montitor - joke. 

Hoover Library and Museum. 

Hoover as a mine engineer in China

We had a Maytag washer 
like this - with gas engine

Hoover and Roosevelt

Hoover liked to fish out west.

Bedroom where Hoover was born.

Living room in Hoover birthplace.

Notice the outhouse.

In the distance you can see his boyhood home.

This was our Hotel - Iowa City
on campus

Farm Corn Fields as we took
off for Florida.