Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-01-02


see. On their return from tnis eour
they took up their residence near
Greeneville. where they lived until the
fall of 1862 when they were compei,eu
to leave east Tennessee FOR NasnViiie,
where her father then resided as MIL
itary governor.
After the election of Andrew John-
son as vice president and upon the
assassination of Mr.. Lincoln, ne De-
came president, Mrs. Patterson and
the family removed to washington
that she might assume the soclai ou-
ties which from her mothers Illness
fell to her lot OF her administrator
in the white house, extending over
period of about four years and cover
ing many difficult problems, mucn
has been written. Her announcement
that 1--WE are but plain people from
east Tennessee" and that she Aoped
too much would not be expected OF us
socially" read like humor in the light
of the reports of sumptuous state
dinners and brilliant receptions. Mrs.
Patterson had the rare distinction or
| being the daughter of the president,
the wife of a United States senator,
and the mistress of the white house.
| Though she presided with grace and
maintained that dignity due to her
position in the social realm. 1t was
| in the domestic sphere that she found
F, her most genial employment. With
an invalid mother, who laid claim to
the daughters time and thought, and
with two children of her own to care
for, Mrs. Patterson nevertheless gave
personal oversight to the entire man
agement of the white house. 1t was
ever afterward her pleasureable boast
that no callers ever presented card
after 8 o'clock on any morning but
that they were given the privilege OF
inspecting all the rooms of the white
house. She sought to maintain that
simplicity in her exalted sphere which
had marked her as the wife of an east
Tennessee judge. With her own
| hands she cared for the milk of the
white house dairy and made all the
butter which was used on her table.
When the time came for her to retire
from Washington to the more quiet
walks of private life she again turned
| her face toward the mountains of east
| Tennessee with pleasure, in anticipa
! ton of once more living apart from
the gaze of the public and amid those
whom she loved.
Her days of sorrow. however, had
just begun, for in a few months after
the family's return to Tennessee, her
| brother Robert died. Then in 1875,
her father, to be followed within
year by her mother. Other deaths
came as stated above.
Mrs. Patterson's last years had been
cheered by her son, Andrew Johnson
Patterson, and his loving wife, the de-
votion of both having been that III
children indeed. Judge Patterson died
in 1891. The only other member of
Mrs. Patterson's family now living is
little Martha Landstreet, daughter of
Mrs. Belle Landstreet, deceased, who
was Mrs. Patterson's daughter.
Mrs. Patterson possessed much of
the character of her father. The
breadth and sweep of his reasoning
faculties were hers, while his iron will
and indomitable energy were repro
duced in her The devotion which she
exhibited toward her father while he
was living and to his memory after
he died was of the highest type of
filial affection and seemed but little
short of ancestral worship. She knew
him as perhaps no one else ever did.
and the integrity of his character and
his supreme love of truth were themes
on which she delighted to dwell. She
has done service not only to her
fathers memory, but to the country as
well, in her painstaking care in the
collection of data from which must be
written the biography of Andrew John
son, who is central figure in the ma
tons history at time of great crisis.
In religion Mrs. Patterson was a
Protestant, being a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South
but she was as broad and charitable
in her views as she was kind in her
nature.
Andrew Johnson had five children
as stated above, five grandchildren
and three great-grandchildren This
is the extent of the family history
Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. Sarah Slower
his daughter, had two and three chill.
dren respectively. Mrs. Patterson's
son, Andrew Johnson Patterson. still
lives, but he is childless. Her daueh-
ter. Mrs. Landstreet, is dead. leaving
little Martha Landstreet, who now re-
sides in Greeneville, as one of the OK.
presidents great-grandchildren.
or Mrs. Stover's three children An
drew Johnson Slower is now living
out is unmarried. Her eldest daush-
ter, Lille, married Thomas Malonev
and died childless. Her daughter Sal.
lie married w. B. Bachman of Bluff
city, Tenn, and died leaving two sons
John and S. B. Bachman.
nus II seems that the only descend
ants OF Andrew Johnson who are now
Ning are Andrew Johnson Patterson
Andrew Johnson Slower. Martha ana
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