Wilson-McAdoo families papers
Contributors: Wilson, Margaret Woodrow, 1886-1944
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1000
Subjects: Community centers; Practice of law; School facilities; United States. Director General of the Railroads; Politics and government; United States; Religion; United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Office of the Secretary; Railroads and state; Mysticism; Economic policy; Hinduism; Extended use; Singing
Description: Correspondence, writings, speeches, statements, biographical materials, financial papers, clippings, photographs, and other papers relating to the McAdoo and Wilson families, chiefly Eleanor Wilson McAdoo and Margaret Woodrow Wilson.  Includes material documenting Margaret's singing career, promotion of American schools as community centers, and experiences in Pondicherry, India, as a follower of the Hindu mystic, Aurobindo Ghose; and Eleanor's writings on the Wilson family.  Other family members represented include Eleanor and Margaret's sisters, Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre and Ellen Axson Wilson, and Eleanor's husband, William Gibbs McAdoo.  Subjects include national politics; McAdoo's service as U.S. secretary of the treasury and director general of railroads in the Woodrow Wilson administrations and his law practice in Los Angeles, Calif.; Jessie's husband, Francis Bowes Sayre, and their family; and Woodrow Wilson and his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Purchase, 1983.

Wilson family including Margaret Woodrow Wilson and Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, daughters of President Woodrow Wilson.

Collection material in English.

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