![]() ![]() ![]() Hoover later remembered Oregon fondly, particularly the natural world that he encountered there. He left Oregon for California in the summer of 1891, shortly after his seventeenth birthday. University in California would offer free tuition, Hoover decided to enroll in its pioneer class and pursue a career in engineering. Learning that the new Leland Stanford Jr. His horizons began to widen, however, and the teenager resolved to resume his education. ![]() His uncle helped to establish the Oregon Land Company in Salem, and Hoover worked for the business as an office boy. Minthorn had recently become superintendent of the Friends Pacific Academy in the small Quaker village of Newberg, and Hoover attended the school for three years until the Minthorn family moved to Salem. The family agreed, since this seemed a promising opportunity for the eleven-year-old boy. Minthorn had lost his own son the year before and asked that his sister’s younger son come to live with him. Hoover moved to Newberg to live with his uncle John Minthorn who, like Hoover’s mother, was in the Society of Friends. He moved to the state in 1885, a year after his mother’s death had left him, his brother, and his sister orphans. Herbert Hoover, the thirty-first president of the United States, spent six years in Oregon as a boy. ![]()
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