Bio Lou Hoover
Lou Henry was born in Waterloo, Iowa, on March 29, 1874, to parents Charles and Florence Weed Henry.1 Lou and her family...
Laurence Hoes' memo to Lou Hoover
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- Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum
Laurence Hoes' memo to Lou Hoover
In a memo to First Lady Lou Hoover's secretary, Laurence Hoes relays estimates from the Washington, D.C., furniture-maker M.W. Dove for the costs to reproduce items in the Monroe museum for the White House.
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