Early Life
Shoen was born on February 29, 1916 in McGrath, Minnesota. His father, Samuel J. Shoen, moved the family to Oregon in 1923 to farm the Willamette Valley near Shedd. The Shoens were ethnically Scottish and English, and Sam's mother Sophie was of Swiss and French descent. The younger Shoen worked his way through Oregon State College by running a chain of beauty parlors and barber shops in Corvallis and nearby Albany, and later at Camp Adair north of Corvallis and at the Hanford Reservation in Washington. Sam earned a B.Sc. in General Science (a pre-med degree) from OSC in 1943, and entered the University of Oregon Medical School in Portland. Shoen was suspended from medical school during his fourth year, and never returned. He served in the U.S. Navy as a Hospital Apprentice First Class in Bayview, Idaho and Seattle, Washington, and was given a medical discharge in 1945 for rheumatic fever. After starting the U-Haul Company, Shoen earned an LL.B. at the Northwestern College of Law in Portland in 1955.
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