The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-07-30
By SUE M'NAMARA GA. p. correspondent)


 WEST BRANCHsIOWA, July 30 Serenity and satisfaction prevail in this little Quaker village of roc where Herbert Hoover was born now that he has been nominated for President. of the United States. Plenty there are of the staunch Quaker faith who nod their heads quietly and say: T told you so, ' because they have known Herbert Hoover since he was little boy and know that he comes of the stock from which Presidents are made.
 The birthplace of the man was a humble 'one-story frame cottage, but this has since been added to and the room where Herbert Hoo- yer was born is now used as a kitchen. Bees buzz around the yellow June roses of the house lset at~-rte edge or fertile rolling
 green prairie land and ploughed fields, Already tourists are leav- ing the main highway which goes through West Branch to pass into | the side street which contains his birthplace.
 Present at Hoover's Birth A. w. Jackson. now an editor
 but in the days of Herberts boy.
 hood, printer. says that he has
 been yielding his pen vigorous.
 ly for the last ten years to make this hometown boy President c'
 the United States'' sMr. Jackson's mother, Eliza Ann Jackson, was | present when Hoover was horn
 and wrapped him in his swaddlina clothes. He has heard his father tell of Mrs. Jackson coming home
 one morning and saying: Well they've got a new boy over al
 Jesse Hoover's house."
 Hoover's father was black.
 smith and his mother a Quaker preacher They had three child.
 ren, Teodore, May and Herbert. Thrown Out of Shop
 Many a time 1 have seen ou:
 crabby old foreman throy Her.
 bert and young Ray Wiokarsham
 son of the editor of the West
 Branch Times, out of the offioe,'
 recalls MT Jackson. The two
 boys liked to play around the shop
 They always. came back after they
 had been thrown out.
 My parents lived on the adjoin. ing block to the Hoovers. Jesse
 Hoover. the father of Herbert, gave
 me the first dollar I ever earned for assisting him in his blacksmith shop. Looking back on it now think my own father furnished the dollar to keep me away iron 1 the old swimming hole which Her
 bert later discovered also" [ At the other end of town can bi
 seen the well kept cemetery where
 Hoover's father and mother are buried. He was left an orphan
 boy at the age of ten He liret with an uncle and aunt at West
 Branch for a time. The aunt
 whom Hoover still refers to as Aunt Millie, now lives at Quart
 Iowa. Later Herbert. was taker | to Oregon to live with an uncle
 Dr. H. J. Minthorne.
 Hoover's Patient Teacher Mrs. J. K. Carran lives in this house at, the north end of town
 and on the wall of her living room picture of MT. Hoover. which hs gave. her at the time of his visi, to West Branch in 1923 when Mrs Carran presented him to the crowd at the dedication of West Branch's new school house.
 In recent address to the Iowa Society in Washington, Mir. Hoo yer referred to Mrs. Carran as "the sweet faced, patient teacher who drilled into me the founda. tions of present knowledge Busy, Smart and Quiet Herbert was good boy" says his former. teacher. "A little ex. |tra. He was such busy little fellow that I had to. advance hin l a grade ahead of the rest of his class -one of his noticeable char,
 sctertistics which he has carried ' 6z-x x- l- . q A