Lou Henry posing on a burro at Acton, California, 1891Lou Henry met future president Herbert Hoover
Lou Henry posing on a burro at Acton, California, 1891Lou Henry met future president Herbert Hoover while studying geology at Stanford University. They got married in California in 1899 and the very next day set sail for China, where Hoover was Director General of the Department of Mines of the Chinese Government. Later in the White House years, Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover would speak to each other in Chinese when they did not want others to eavesdrop on their conversation. -- source link
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