The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-09-29
WIVES OF MEN
IN HIGH OFFICE
Many of Note Among Nations
''First Ladies'

The names of the Presidents
wives, and their names before mar
riage are thus recorded:
Martha Washington was born Mar
tina cambridge, the daughter of a
Virginia planter. and was the widow
of Daniel Parke Custis when she was
married to the first President.
John Adams married Abigail Smith.
daughter Of Congregational minis
ter of Weymouth. Mass. Mrs. JEFF
ferson and Mrs. Madison, like Mar
tina Washington, had both been
previously married. Martha Wayles'
first husband died before she was
twenty, and at twenty-four she mar
ried Jefferson. Dolly Madison was
born Dolly Payne, and later became
the wife Of John Todd, Pennsyl-
vania lawyer who died in 1893.
Eliza Kortwright of New York
city married James Monroe in 1856.
Mrs. John Quincy Adams was Louisa
Catherine Johnson of English birth.
Rachel Donelson Robards was the
divorced wife of an army officer. She
married Jackson twice; once before
the divorce had been granted her
husband. She died before Jackson
went into the White House.
Hannah Hoes was a distant blood
relative as well as the wife of the
eighth President, Martin Van Buren,
William Henry Harrison married
Anna Symmes, a daughter of the
founder of Cincinnati.
President Tyler was married twice
His first wife, Letitia G. Christian,
died in the White House; while his
second, whom he married in New
York city during his Presidential
term, he met in the Executive Man.
sion after the body of her father.
killed on warship on the Potomac,
had been taken there. She was Julia
Gardiner, then twenty-four.
Sarah Childress of Murfreesboro,
Tenn, became Mrs. Polk. Mrs. Tay-
lor was Margaret Smith of Calvert
county, Maryland. Fillmore's first
wife was Abigail Powers of New
York; his second, who had also been
married before, Caroline Carmichael
Mcintosh of New Jersey. Franklin
Pierce married Jane Means Apple
ton, daughter Of president of
Bowdoin college. Buchanan was un-
married.
Mary Todd, Of a pioneer Kentucky
family, became Abraham Lincoln's
wife. Johnson's was Eliza McCardle,
who had taught him to write. Mrs.
Grant, before her marriage, was
Julia Dent, daughter of st. Louis
judge. Lucy Ware Webb of Chilli
cothe, Ohio, was President Hayes
wife, and Lucretia Rudolph of Gar
rettsville was Garfield's.
President Arthur married Ellen
Lewis Herndon of New York: Cleve-
land, Frances Folsom of Buffalo, in
the White House; while Benjamin
Harrison was twice married, his first
wife being Caroline Lavinia Scott of
Oxford, Ohio, (who died in the Elk
ecutive Mansion), and his second,
Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Dimmick. a
widow and the niece of the first Mrs.
Harrison.
Ida Saxton of Canton became Mrs.
William Mckinley. ROosevelt's first
wife was Alice Hathaway Lee of
Boston: his second, Edith Kermit
Karow of New York. William Fl.
Taft married Helen Heron of Cincin-
natl. Woodrow Wilson's first wife
was Ellen Louise Arson of Rome.
Ca; the second, Edith Boiling of
Wytheville, Va; the widow of Nor
man Gait, a Washington jeweler.
Florence King DeWolfe was d.
vorced when she married Warren G.
Harding. Mrs. Coolidge was born
Grace Goodhue of Burlington, vt.
Mrs. Hoover was born Lou Henry,
at Waterloo, Iowa; and Mrs. Roose-
welt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. New
York city.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.