“YOUNG BERT”
PEEPS AT PRESIDENT'S PAST When Herbert Hoover, worked as assistant to the State Geologist in Arkansas in 1892 he received a salary of £8 a month, and was carried on the State payroll as Bert Hoover, This information was disclosed in State Auditor ‘ Humphrey's office when a, voucher bearing his endorsement was uncovered in .a search for records of that period. President Hoover helped Dr. John C. Branner, former State Geologist, in making a mineral survey of various regions in northern Arkansas. Mr. Hoover received a degree in geology at Stanford University in 1895.
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Evening Star, Issue 20428, 8 March 1930, Page 7
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