Herbert Clark Hoover, an Iowa-born blacksmith’s son…

Herbert Clark Hoover, an Iowa-born blacksmith’s son orphaned at eight years old and sent to live with a Quaker uncle in Oregon who became wealthy, graduates from Stanford University in 1895 with a mining engineering degree.

He begins working in California as an ordinary laborer, but quickly obtains a position in Australia directing a new gold-mining venture. for a London-based firm.