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Lou Henry Hoover (March 29, 1874 – January 7, 1944) was the wife of President of the United States Herbert Hoover and served as the First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933.
Marrying her geologist and mining engineer husband in 1899, she traveled widely with him, including to Shanghai, China, and became a cultivated scholar and linguist. She made extensive study of languages including Latin, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, German, Italian and French. She oversaw construction of the presidential retreat at Rapidan Camp in Madison County, Virginia. She was the first First Lady to make regular nationwide radio broadcasts.
Lou Henry was born in Waterloo, Iowa, to banker Charles Delano Henry and Florence Ida Weed.[1][2] Lou grew up something of a tomboy in Waterloo, as well as Whittier, California, and Monterey, California.[1] Charles Henry took his daughter on camping trips in the hills—her greatest pleasures in her early teens.[1] Lou became a fine horsewoman; she hunted, and preserved specimens with the skill of a taxidermist; she developed an enthusiasm for rocks, minerals, and mining.[1]
Hoover's postsecondary school began at the Los Angeles Normal School, now known as the University of California, Los Angeles. She later transferred to and graduated from San Jose Normal School, now known as San Jose State University, with a teaching credential in 1893. She then went to Stanford University where she met Herbert Hoover, who was then a senior. In 1898 she graduated—as the school's only female geology major at the time—with a B.A. in Geology.[3]
Marrying her geologist and mining engineer husband in 1899, she traveled widely with him, including to Shanghai, China, and became a cultivated scholar and linguist. She made extensive study of languages including Latin, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, German, Italian and French. She oversaw construction of the presidential retreat at Rapidan Camp in Madison County, Virginia. She was the first First Lady to make regular nationwide radio broadcasts.
Lou Henry was born in Waterloo, Iowa, to banker Charles Delano Henry and Florence Ida Weed.[1][2] Lou grew up something of a tomboy in Waterloo, as well as Whittier, California, and Monterey, California.[1] Charles Henry took his daughter on camping trips in the hills—her greatest pleasures in her early teens.[1] Lou became a fine horsewoman; she hunted, and preserved specimens with the skill of a taxidermist; she developed an enthusiasm for rocks, minerals, and mining.[1]
Hoover's postsecondary school began at the Los Angeles Normal School, now known as the University of California, Los Angeles. She later transferred to and graduated from San Jose Normal School, now known as San Jose State University, with a teaching credential in 1893. She then went to Stanford University where she met Herbert Hoover, who was then a senior. In 1898 she graduated—as the school's only female geology major at the time—with a B.A. in Geology.[3]
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First Lady Lou Hoover's Home Movies
An audio-visual archivist working at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library discovered that some of former First Lady Lou Hoover’s home movies may in fact b...
Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that March 29 is the anniversary of the birth of the wife of President of the United States Herbert Hoover and served as First Lady from 1929 to 1933 Louise Henry Hoover who was born with the name Louise Henry.
In latter life she was known simply as Lou Henry Hoover.
Background from history.com/topics/first-ladies/lou-hoover
"Lou Hoover (1874-1944) was an American first lady (1929-1933) and the wife of Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States. As a child, Lou developed an interest in nature and the outdoors, a passion she would follow to Stanford University, where she became one of the first women in America to earn a degree in geology and met her future husband. The Hoovers traveled the world as Herbert built a successful career in the mining industry, before moving into politics. Lou Hoover kept up an active public role throughout her life; supporting European relief efforts during World War I, serving as the national president of the Girl Scouts and becoming the first first lady to deliver her own radio broadcasts. She earned the respect of many when she boldly invited the wife of the nation’s only black Congressman to a White House reception, but also received harsh criticism for her lavish entertaining style, which many considered inapproproate in the midst of the Depression.
Although Lou Henry’s love of the outdoors made her pursuit of a geology degree seems obvious in hindsight, she was uncertain of her professional prospects as a teenager. She obtained her teaching degree from the San Jose Normal School in 1893, and worked as a substitute teacher and bank clerk afterward. Her life changed course when she attended a lecture by Stanford University geology professor John Casper Branner, who inspired her to enroll at the school in 1894. Hoover became the first woman in America to earn a degree in geology. Although she never earned employment in the field, she put her geology (and language) training to use years later by helping Hoover translate the seminal 16th century mining manual De Re Metallica from Latin to English.
Lou spent the early 1900s visiting such foreign locales as India, Egypt, Australia, Russia and Burma through her husband’s job as a mine inspector, but their days as world travelers nearly ended shortly after they began. Following their move to Tientsin, China, in 1899, the Hoovers found themselves in the midst of the violent, anti-West Boxer Rebellion. Thrusting herself into the thick of the action, Lou helped build protective barricades, volunteered for patrol duty and cared for the wounded. Despite the everyday dangers around them, the Hoovers managed to avoid misfortune until the rebellion was quashed in the summer of 1900.
While living in London at the outbreak of World War I, she established the American Women’s War Relief Fund and the American Women’s Hospital. After her husband was named U.S. secretary of commerce under Warren Harding, she became vice president of the National Amateur Athletic Association in 1922 and president of its women’s division the following year. And in the wake of the Harding administration’s Teapot Dome Scandal, Lou founded the National Women’s Conference on Law Enforcement in 1924.
Lou Hoover also left her mark on the White House. She rounded up furniture that had belonged to the 16th U.S. president and transformed a guest room into the “Lincoln Study,” a precursor to the Lincoln Bedroom established by Harry Truman. She did the same with James Monroe’s furniture, although the “Monroe Room” underwent more renovations before becoming the current Treaty Room. Hoover also collaborated with an aide to compile an extensive inventory of the White House’s collection of historic objects.
Lou remained devoted to her activist and charitable causes after leaving the White House in 1933. She resumed her earlier presidency of the Girl Scouts, overseeing the creation of its famed cookie fundraising drive, and helped found the non-profit Friends of Music at Stanford. Following the Hoovers’ move to New York in 1940, the former first lady spearheaded efforts to gather clothing for World War II refugees as chair of the Western Women’s Committee. She died suddenly of a heart attack after attending a New York City concert in early 1944."
First Lady Lou Hoover's Home Movies
An audio-visual archivist working at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library discovered that some of former First Lady Lou Hoover’s home movies may in fact be the earliest color home movies ever taken at the White House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MQaW9NHxHc
FYI LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Maj Marty Hogan SCPO Morris Ramsey SFC William Farrell SGT Mark Halmrast Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke 1stSgt Eugene Harless SSG William Jones SSG Diane R.
In latter life she was known simply as Lou Henry Hoover.
Background from history.com/topics/first-ladies/lou-hoover
"Lou Hoover (1874-1944) was an American first lady (1929-1933) and the wife of Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States. As a child, Lou developed an interest in nature and the outdoors, a passion she would follow to Stanford University, where she became one of the first women in America to earn a degree in geology and met her future husband. The Hoovers traveled the world as Herbert built a successful career in the mining industry, before moving into politics. Lou Hoover kept up an active public role throughout her life; supporting European relief efforts during World War I, serving as the national president of the Girl Scouts and becoming the first first lady to deliver her own radio broadcasts. She earned the respect of many when she boldly invited the wife of the nation’s only black Congressman to a White House reception, but also received harsh criticism for her lavish entertaining style, which many considered inapproproate in the midst of the Depression.
Although Lou Henry’s love of the outdoors made her pursuit of a geology degree seems obvious in hindsight, she was uncertain of her professional prospects as a teenager. She obtained her teaching degree from the San Jose Normal School in 1893, and worked as a substitute teacher and bank clerk afterward. Her life changed course when she attended a lecture by Stanford University geology professor John Casper Branner, who inspired her to enroll at the school in 1894. Hoover became the first woman in America to earn a degree in geology. Although she never earned employment in the field, she put her geology (and language) training to use years later by helping Hoover translate the seminal 16th century mining manual De Re Metallica from Latin to English.
Lou spent the early 1900s visiting such foreign locales as India, Egypt, Australia, Russia and Burma through her husband’s job as a mine inspector, but their days as world travelers nearly ended shortly after they began. Following their move to Tientsin, China, in 1899, the Hoovers found themselves in the midst of the violent, anti-West Boxer Rebellion. Thrusting herself into the thick of the action, Lou helped build protective barricades, volunteered for patrol duty and cared for the wounded. Despite the everyday dangers around them, the Hoovers managed to avoid misfortune until the rebellion was quashed in the summer of 1900.
While living in London at the outbreak of World War I, she established the American Women’s War Relief Fund and the American Women’s Hospital. After her husband was named U.S. secretary of commerce under Warren Harding, she became vice president of the National Amateur Athletic Association in 1922 and president of its women’s division the following year. And in the wake of the Harding administration’s Teapot Dome Scandal, Lou founded the National Women’s Conference on Law Enforcement in 1924.
Lou Hoover also left her mark on the White House. She rounded up furniture that had belonged to the 16th U.S. president and transformed a guest room into the “Lincoln Study,” a precursor to the Lincoln Bedroom established by Harry Truman. She did the same with James Monroe’s furniture, although the “Monroe Room” underwent more renovations before becoming the current Treaty Room. Hoover also collaborated with an aide to compile an extensive inventory of the White House’s collection of historic objects.
Lou remained devoted to her activist and charitable causes after leaving the White House in 1933. She resumed her earlier presidency of the Girl Scouts, overseeing the creation of its famed cookie fundraising drive, and helped found the non-profit Friends of Music at Stanford. Following the Hoovers’ move to New York in 1940, the former first lady spearheaded efforts to gather clothing for World War II refugees as chair of the Western Women’s Committee. She died suddenly of a heart attack after attending a New York City concert in early 1944."
First Lady Lou Hoover's Home Movies
An audio-visual archivist working at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library discovered that some of former First Lady Lou Hoover’s home movies may in fact be the earliest color home movies ever taken at the White House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MQaW9NHxHc
FYI LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Maj Marty Hogan SCPO Morris Ramsey SFC William Farrell SGT Mark Halmrast Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke 1stSgt Eugene Harless SSG William Jones SSG Diane R.
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