Report by: Tessie
5th Grade
Bennion Elementary
Taylorsville, Utah

Mrs. Hansen


Tessie

On October 18, 1914 a wealthy engineer named Herbert Hoover had an important choice to make. Whether he should accept this dangerous mission to feed the whole entire nation of Belgium while World War 1 was still going on, or not. What did he decide?

Herbert Hoover was born on August tenth, 1874, West Branch, Iowa. Herbert had an older brother and a little sister. As Hoover was growing up, he did hard chores while he only got a penny for every chore he did.
When Hoover was six, his father (Jesse Hoover) died. So then Hoover's mother (Hulda Hoover) took a job for sewing and tried to make as much money as she can to help her family. Unfortunately, after she walked home in a blizzard she caught a cold then it got worse until she died on February 1884.
So by the age of nine Hoover and his brother and sister was orphaned, and each of them was sent to live with different relatives.
When Hoover was eleven he had to travel all the way to Oregon to live with his uncle, Dr. Henry John Minthorn.
When Hoover was a teenager he was an engineer who was constantly traveling around the world.
When Herbert Hoover was old enough to go to college he went to a brand new university called Stanford in California for tutoring. After he was done with all of his tutoring he went to a college in Oregon. He decided that he wanted to study geology.
In this class there was only one girl in it and her name was Lou Henry. She was Hoover's secret crush. At graduation Lou and Hoover decided to get married as soon as Hoover had enough money to support a family.
After Hoover got a job for engineering, Bewick Moreing ( Hoover's boss) sent him over to Australia to work as a miner. Next Bewick sent Hoover over to China to manage the mines over there.
After that Herbert got a big pay raise so he sent Lou Henry a letter that said "will you marry me? " Then Hoover sailed back to Oregon and married Lou on February 10, 1899.
In 1928 president Calvin Coolidge decided not to run for a second term, so Hoover was a candidate. He ran against a New York governor named Al Smith who was a Democrat and Hoover was a Republican. On Election Day Hoover won!!!! The votes were 21,392,000 to 15,016,000 and at that time too Charles Curtis was elected vice president.
When Hoover was president during World War I he had to push the farmers to grow food and lower the prices until there was enough food for everybody and the prices were reasonable. Then something bad happened, the stock market in New York crashed on October! Plus twelve million Americans were out of work and thousands of businesses failed, this was known as The Great Depression.
People then begged Hoover for some money for their families but Hoover refused to. Instead he lent over $1 billion dollars to the banks and insurance companies to help all of the people.
On October 1964 something terrible happened to Hoover, an ulcer just above his stomach started to bleed and couldn't be stopped. At the age of ninety Hoover was too old for surgery so his sons Allan and Herbert Jr. stayed with him until he died in midday October 20, 1964.
By the time of Hoover's death people began to finally realize that Hoover had loved his country deeply. With thousands of people mourning Hoover's death surrounding his coffin in Washington D.C. he was then buried in West Branch, Iowa.