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Departure for China
- When
- February 1899
- Where
- China
After the wedding, the couple traveled to China, where Hoover took up mining engineering work.
Hoover had been hired as chief engineer of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company. Upon arriving in China with his bride, Lou, Hoover developed gold mines near Tianjin on behalf of Bewick and the Chinese-owned Chinese Engineering and Mining Company. The passages do not state the departure point or exact departure date.
Sources
- Herbert Hoover Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-11
- Lou Henry Hoover Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-11
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.