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George Fox University

university, Newberg, Oregon, United States

Also known as: Friends Pacific Academy

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It is the seat of George Fox University, established in 1885 as Friends Pacific Academy; the future American president Herbert Hoover was in the first graduating class of 1888. Hoover-Minthorn House (1881), where the orphaned Hoover lived with his uncle, has been restored. Nearby Champoeg State Heritage Area, once the…
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It is the seat of George Fox University, established in 1885 as Friends Pacific Academy; the future American president Herbert Hoover was in the first graduating class of 1888. Hoover-Minthorn House (1881), where the orphaned Hoover lived with his uncle, has been restored. Nearby Champoeg State Heritage Area, once the…
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