HERBERT HOOVER, Newberg, Ore.
President during the 1929 stock market crash and the start of the Great Depression, Hoover is often portrayed as unsympathetic to the poor. But he had helped save the lives of millions through his relief work during the Boxer Rebellion in China, the Belgian famine of World War I, and the subsequent food shortages in Central Europe and Russia. Orphaned at 10, Hoover stayed with relatives in Iowa for a year before moving out west to Oregon to live with his aunt and uncle at their house in Newberg (which is now known as the Hoover-Minthorn House Museum). There's a 129-year-old pear tree in the yard. 115 S. River St., 503/538-6629, $3.