Today six members of Chemeketa DAR made the trip to Newberg to visit the Hoover-Minthorn House Museum. This house, now owned by the Colonial Dames of America, is where President Herbert Hoover lived with his aunt and uncle, the Minthorns, from 1885-1889. In 1889 the family moved to Salem. In 1891, Herbert entered Stanford University. He became a mining engineer, businessman, bureaucrat and eventually president of the United States.
I've lived within an easy drive of the museum most of my life, yet this was my first trip to see it. While I enjoy visiting old houses, it was the stories about the family, and "Bertie" that I enjoyed the most.
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