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Cemetery Name: West Branch Municipal Cemetery. Jesse Clark Hoover, the father of President Herbert Hoover, was born on September 2, 1846 near West Milton, Ohio, the son of Eli and Mary Davis Hoover. His mother died when he was six years old. In 1854 the extended Hoover family, including Jesse’s grandparents, paternal aunts and uncles, and his ...
Theodore Jesse Hoover was an American mining engineer, naturalist, educator, and the elder brother of U.S. Pres. Herbert Hoover (author of this biography). Hoover was the oldest of three children born to Jesse Clark Hoover, a village blacksmith and dealer in agricultural machinery, and Huldah
- Arthur Mastick Hyde
- Ray Lyman Wilbur
- William De Witt Mitchell
- Charles Francis Adams
- Iowa
- Oregon
- California
- The President's Brother
- Restoration of The President's Birthplace
Theodore had one clear memory of Herbert in their small West Branch cottage. It was a day of grief followed by jubilant happiness. The little boys both suffered attacks of croup and on this occasion, Herbert’s was nearly fatal. After failed attempts at household remedies by his parents, aunts, and cousins, Herbert laid on a high table gradually ...
Theodore did not see a very brilliant future as a farmer. He wrote, “The west was still the land of romance in those days and the ‘wander-lust’ had a good grip. My brother had gone to Oregon and I had a great longing to see him.” After four years of a farmer’s life he left for Oregon in 1887. He began school at Friends Pacific Academy in Newberg, O...
For the next few years Theodore worked for printers and newspapers, alternated with college studies at Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa. In 1897, at the age of 26, he had again saved enough to return to college and attended his brother’s school, Stanford University. In 1899 in San Francisco, California, Theodore married Mildred Crew Brooks of West L...
Being the brother of a president was not what most would have expected. Theodore wrote, “I suppose there has been no relative of any president of the United States who has received less benefit from the distinction of this relative than in my case. So far from having any benefit out of the situation it has only brought me expenses and knocks on the...
During the restoration of Herbert Hoover's birthplace cottage, Lou Hoover sought the recollections of relatives and friends, including Theodore. Theodore’s memory of the little house differed from others'; he remembered the cottage having four rooms instead of two, with the back porch being enclosed for the additional two rooms. Theodore Hoover die...
Apr 27, 2022 · 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.
- September 02, 1846
- blacksmith
- Stillwater, Miami, Ohio, United States
Nov 12, 2017 · Jessie Albertine Hoover, Disappeared May 20, 1983, 100-Mile Wilderness, south of Baxter State Park, Appalachian Trail, Maine. Revised July 2024 In May 1983, Jessie Albertine Hoover headed towards Maine, the northeasternmost U.S. state, to hike the Appalachian Trail (A.T.) and the 100-mile Wilder
The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site is a unit of the National Park System in West Branch, Iowa, United States. The buildings and grounds are managed by the National Park Service to commemorate the life of Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States. The park was established in 1965, shortly after it was named a National ...
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Dec 29, 2022 · Biography. Jesse Clark Hoover was born on 2 September 1846 in Stillwater, Ohio, a son of Eli Hoover and his wife Mary. His family were Quakers, and he was baptized in the West Branch Monthly Meeting of West Milton, Miami County, Ohio. [1] The 1850 U.S. Census recorded 4-year-old Jesse Hoover is his parents' household in Union, Miami County, Ohio.
