Dr. Henry John Minthorn

Dr. Minthorn had practically demanded that his sister's boy be surrendered to him. His only son had just died and it seemed to him right that one of Huldah's orphans be sent to fill that place in his home and heart.

• Herbert Hoover
  • p. 17 (Easton Press, 1964)

In Portland he was collected by a taciturn uncle in the familiar Quaker garb and conveyed to the new Friends' settlement called Newberg on the Willamette River, about twenty-two miles southwest of Portland.

• Herbert Hoover
  • p. 18 (Easton Press, 1964)

Bert found out just how coldhearted strangers can be when at an Oregon depot he first looked up into the flinty eyes of Uncle John Minthorn.

• Herbert Hoover
  • p. 4 (Times Books, 2009)

During a winter cold snap when he was two years old, Herbert fell victim to the croup, a viral infection that inflames the larynx and obstructs breathing... Jesse fetched Dr. Henry John Minthorn, Hulda's brother and one of two physicians in West Branch. Minthorn ministered to his nephew by lamplight through most of an icy night... When the patient seemed better, Minthorn left to make an urgent call in the countryside. The attacks resumed while he was away... [Herbert] turned blue, stopped breathing entirely, and was given up for dead... [Minthorn] dashed back to his sister's, where he was greeted at the door with the cry "Bertie is gone!"... [Minthorn] used either mouth-to-mouth resuscitation or his finger, or some combination of both, to clear Bertie's throat and coax another coughing fit. The child's breath was restored, and the doctor handed him over to his mother, saying "Here's your boy."

• Herbert Hoover
  • pp. 5-6 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017)