President Herbert Clark Hoover

1874 - 1964  (90 years)

• Name	President Herbert Clark Hoover  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	10 Aug 1874	West Branch, Cedar, IA, USA   [5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Oct 1964	Midtown Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States of America   [5]
  Burial	25 Oct 1964	West Branch, Cedar, IA, USA   [5]
  Person ID	I11060	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Jesse Clark Hoover,   b. 2 Sep 1846, West Milton, Miami, OH, USA d. 13 Dec 1880, West Branch, Cedar, IA, USA (Age 34 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Hulda Randall Minthorn,   b. 1848, Burgersville, Ontario, Canada d. 22 Feb 1884, West Branch, Cedar, IA, USA (Age 36 years)
  Relationship	natural
  _MARRIED	N
  Family ID	F3184	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lou Henry,   b. 29 Mar 1874, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States of America d. 7 Jan 1944, New York, New York County, New York, United States of America (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	10 Feb 1899
  Children	1. Herbert Hoover, Jr.,   b. 4 Aug 1903, London, City of London, Greater London, England d. 9 Jul 1969, Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America (Age 65 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Allen Henry Hoover,   b. 17 Jul 1907, Greater London, England d. 4 Nov 1993, Portola Valley, San Mateo County, California, United States of America (Age 86 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3163	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  President Hoover was born in a 7 by 13 foot, bare floor bedroom. The only other room, about the same size, was kitchen, parlor and dining room combined. He grew to the age of ten in the community of the West Branch of the Quakd Cedar Meeting at nearby Springdale. It had been settled only a generation earlier by Quakers including Hoover's grandparents. By age 10, both of Hoover's parents had died and he was sent to live with relatives in Oregon. Of his childhood home, he said: "The most vivid and joyous recollections of my Iowa boyhood days are of patient angling in Iowa streams for the very occasional fish with willow pole and a properly spatupon worm." By the time he was President he had become a self-made millionaire businessman and public official. Seven months after he took office, the stock market crashed, and the rest of his presidency revolved around the depression. Many of the proposals he made to counteract the depression were thrown out by congress, only later to be accepted and successful policies under President Roosevelt. He was a reserved man with a quiet sense of humor. He enjoyed fishing, hiking, and reading biographies. His family of Quaker background. (C-113) In a newspaper article of the Sunday, New York Times, dated Oct. 24, 1964, it describes our country's preparations and mourning for the death of the 31st President of the U.S., Herbert Hoover. He was to be buried the next day at the 28 acre home that is the site of his library, his pine clapboard cottage home and his father's blacksmith shop. The Republican Presidential nominee, Barry Goldwater, was expected to attend the funeral, a turnout of 50 Persons of state including President Taft's two sons, as well as a complete turnout of the townspeople who have special memories of Herbert Hoover. (C-271)

  
  

• Sources

  [S399] Encyclopedia Britannica. [S2799] President Herbert Hoover, Obituary New York Times Newspaper New York, New York Oct. 1964. [S2419] Kathleen A. Schoen to Linda Coate Dudick Letter dated Aug. 9, 1986 at P.O. Box 162, Connell, Wa. 19326 In Linda Coate files (C-270). [S237] Grace Arabelle Coate Wilson to Albert and Marcena Coate Letter dated Oct. 195? In L. Dudick files (C-52). [S21] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/498/herbert-hoover