Margaret Hoover
Margaret Claire Hoover (born December 11, 1977) is an American political commentator, political strategist, media personality, feminist, gay rights activist, author, and great-granddaughter of Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. President. She is the best-selling author of the book "American Individualism: How A New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party", published by Crown Forum in July 2011. Hoover is currently host of PBS's reboot of the conservative interview show "Firing Line".
Hoover was born in Colorado, the daughter of Jean (Williams), a flight attendant, and Andrew Hoover, a mining engineer.
Margaret Troup Gray
Margaret Troup Gray was born in Aberdeen on 4 February 1849. Her parents were Mary Gordon and Charles Gray, and her father was a clerk. She was the fifth of nine children, and grew in a household where learning was encouraged. A dictionary and an atlas were kept at the ready on the family dinner table. She attended the Sunday school at St Nicholas Lane United Presbyterian church, run by Jane Melville. Having trained and worked as a teacher, Margaret Troup Gray became engaged to her childhood friend Robert Laws in 1875 and, after a long engagement while he became established as a medical missionary, they married in Africa in 1879. They had eight children but only one survived, Amelia Nyasa Laws, born in 1886, and who was sent back to Scotland for her education at the age of eight. Amelia worked in Europe as a nurse, during WW1. Margaret Troup Gray spent most of her 40 years at Livingstonia, Nyssaland (now Malawi), and returned to Scotland in failing health and died there.