This is the gravesite of a very successful businessman, mining engineer, provider of world relief efforts, head of the U.S. Food Administration, Secretary of Commerce and 31st president: Herbert Hoover. A few yards away are his two-room boyhood home, his father’s blacksmith shop and the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. You walk away from this visit with an immense appreciation of what Hoover accomplished during his 90 year life.