1899
Lou Henry
Lou Henry Hoover (March 29, 1874 to January 7, 1944) was born in Waterloo, Iowa, to banker Charles Delano Henry and Florence Ida Weed. Lou grew up something of a tomboy in Waterloo, as well as Whittier and Monterey, California. Hoover's postsecondary school began at the Los Angeles Normal School, now known as the University of California, Los Angeles.
She later transferred to and graduated from San Jose Normal School, now known as San Jose State University, with a teaching credential in 1893. She then went to Stanford University where she met Herbert Hoover, who was then a senior. In 1898 she graduated—as the school's only female geology major at the time—with a B.A. in Geology.