HERBERT HOOVER The Hoover Houses and Community Structures Historic Structures Report

Primary Sources

Manuscript Materials

"Abstract of Title to Lot Commencing 58 Rods . . . ," files Herbert Hoover Birthplace Foundation.

Archibald Crosbie Journal, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, General Acession 119.

Cedar County Deed Book H, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Deed Book I, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Deed Book R, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Deed Book S, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Deed Book W, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Deed Book 15, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Deed Book 34, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Deed Book 41, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Miscellaneous Record Book 10, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Miscellaneous Record Book 24, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Town Lot Mortgage Record D, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Town Lot Deed Record G, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Town Lot Record K, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse,

Cedar County Town Lot Deed Record L, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Town Lot Deed Record N, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Town Lot Deed Record 0, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Town Lot Deed Record 2, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Town Lot Deed Record 7, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Town Lot Deed Record 9, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Deed Record 73, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Deed Record 74, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Deed Record 75, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Cedar County Deed Record 77, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Death Register, Cedar County, Book 1, Cedar Count Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Divorce Case, Martha C. Hill vs G. M. D. Hill, July 31, 1896, file No. 8829, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Genealogy, West Branch, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, Iowa.

Guardian's, Administrator's and Executor's Deeds 11, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Hoover, Huldah, Probated Will, File No. 1777, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Hoover, Jesse, Probated Will, File No. 1540, County Clerk's Office, Cedar County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Minutes of the West Branch Preparative Meeting, Archives West Branch Friends Church.

Mortgage on Lots 37-40, 42, 43, and 16-foot Strip, W. B. Anderson Collection, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

Mortgage on Lots 42 & 43, Dec. 1, 1900, W. B. Anderson Collection, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

"Plat of West Branch, May 29, 1869," by John Steer, as Attorney for John M. Wetherell, found in Cedar County Deed Book H, County Courthouse, Tipton, Iowa.

Post Presidential Subject—Birthplace, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

Presidential Papers—Personal File—J. N. Darling, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

Record of the Proceedings of the Town Council of the Incorporated Town of West Branch, Commencing May 9, 1884, Book 3, City Hall, West Branch, Iowa.

Records of the Springdale Mutual Insurance Company, West Branch, Iowa, Policy No. 1896.

Records of the West Branch Independent School District, 1868-1877, files West Branch Independent School District.

Rowlen, C. E., Pension File, National Archives, Application 758, 886, Certificate 836,361.

Scellers, Jennie, Probated Will, File No. 6264, Cedar County Clerk's Office, Tipton, Iowa.

Scellers, P. R., Probated Will, File No. 4473, Probated Wills, Cedar County Clerk's Office, Tipton, Iowa.

Springdale Monthly Meeting Records, Archives Friends Church, Oskaloosa, Iowa.

Stratton, Maud, "Maud Stratton Scrapbook," Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

Transfer of Title, Charles & Anna Gruwell to R. P. Scellers, Jan. 13, 1886, W. B. Anderson Collection, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

Transfer of Title, C. L. & M. A. Penrose to R. P. Scellers, Oct. 1, 1901, W. B. Anderson Collection, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

Transfer of Title, Sam Jenson to R. R. Scellers, Nov. 13, 1911, W. B. Anderson Collection, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

W. B. Anderson Papers, Allan Hoover, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

W. B. Anderson Papers, Blacksmith Shop, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

W. B. Anderson Papers, Hoover Foundation, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

W. B. Anderson Papers, Hoover's Iowa Award, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

Memoirs

Hoover, Theodore, "Memoranda: Being a Statement by an Engineer," typescript, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

Letters

Barrington, T. T., to Frank Corbin, July 2, 1923, found in West Branch Times, March 19, 1942.

Gruwell, Mrs. Golda, to E. C. Bearss, September 15, 1971.

Miles, Laban, to Editor, West Branch Times, January 31, 1918.

Odell, Mrs. Harriette, to Lou Henry Hoover, October 8, 1939; August 2, 1940; and undated, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, Post Presidential Subject—Birthplace.

Pemberton, Mattie, to Lou Henry Hoover, July 4 & Sept. 30, 1939, & undated, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, Post Presidential Subject—Birthplace.

Stratton, Mrs. Maud, to Lou Henry Hoover, May 10 & 28, 1940, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, Post Presidential Subject—Birthplace.

Illustrations

Hoover, Theodore, "Sketch of Blacksmith Shop, April 25, 1948," Bill Wagner Collection.

Stereoscopic View of West Branch from Cook's Hill, taken by I. L. Miles, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

Atlas

Harris and Warner, Atlas of Cedar County, Marshalltown, 1872.

Secondary Sources

Bearss, Edwin C., Historical Base Map and Grounds Study: Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, Washington, 1968.

Charnley, Mitchell V., The Boy's Life of Herbert Hoover, New York, 1931.

"Early History of West Branch Friends Church," West Branch Times, Aug. 18, 1910.

1863-1963 Spiritual Trails of a People Called Friends, Iowa Yearly Meeting, Oskaloosa, 1963.

History of Cedar County, Iowa, with a History of Iowa, 2 vols., Chicago and Cedar Rapids, 1901.

Hoover, Lou Henry, "Memories of a Little House," Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, Post Presidential Subject—Birthplace.

Lane, Rose Wilder, The Making of Herbert Hoover, New York, 1920.

"Levi Boweles and The Hoover Sketchbook," edited by William J. Wagner, Annuals of Iowa, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1, Des Moines.

Lyon, Eugene, Our Unknown Ex-President, A Portrait of Herbert Hoover, New York, 1948.

Stratton, Maud, Herbert Hoover's Home Town: The Story of West Branch, Iowa City, 1948.

Swisher, J. A., "The Hoover Birthplace," The Palimpsest, Vol. XXIX, No. 8, Iowa City, Iowa.

Truman, Harry S., Memoirs by Harry S. Truman, 2 vols., New York, 1955.

Wickersham, Caleb H., "A School History," found in West Branch Times, October 12, 1905.

Newspapers

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Free Press (Iowa City)

Iowa City Press Citizen

Iowa City Republican

Kansas City Times

West Branch Local Record

West Branch Times

Telephone Conversations

Fawcett, Floyd, with E. C. Bearss, December 31, 1971.

Nash, Robert, with E. C. Bearss, Nov. 29, 1971.

Personal Interviews

Anderson, W. B., with E. C. Bearss, August 23, 1971.

Brown, Glenn, with Robert Nash and E. C. Bearss, August 28, 1971.

Estall, Mr. and Mrs. Al, with E. C. Bearss, August 23, 1971.

Munger, Mrs. Carrie, with E. C. Bearss, August 7, 1970.

Rummells, L. C., with E. C. Bearss, August 20, 21 & 24, 1971.

Sayles, Ross, with E. C. Bearss, August 23, 1971.

Speight, Mrs. Glenn, with E. C. Bearss, August 10, 1970.

Wagner, William, with E. C. Bearss, August 11, 1971.

Wilhelm, Mr. and Mrs. Carl, with E. C. Bearss, August 26, 1970.