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Show STRANGE AS IT SEEMS byJohhllix 4- Bo v . Mum.- we rwrfcxrdo ft vr ee mm a out " PRESIDENTS' WIVES .... Strange as it seems, only one of the first four presidents of the United States, John Adams, failed to marry a widow. Martha Washington's first husband was Daniel Parke Curtis, who died in 1757. Two years later she married George Washington. Martha Jefferson lost her first husband, Bathurst Skelton, before she was 20. Married to Thomas Jefferson four years later, she died in 1782, 19 years before her husband became president. Dolly Madison was married at 19 to John Todd, Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania lawyer. Two years later her husband died in a yellow fever epidemic and three years after she married James Madison. Three of the presidents who married for the second time chose widows as wives. The second Mrs. Fillmore was the widow of Ezekiel Mcintosh of Morristown, N. J. The second Mrs. Benjamin Ben-jamin Harrison was. the widow of Walter Dimmick, a lawyer, and the second Mrs. Wilson was the widow of a Washington jeweler, Norman Gait. Two of the presidents' wives were divorcees. The first was Mrs. Andrew Jackson, divorced from Captain Lewis Robards. The other was Mrs. Warren G. Harding, divorced from Henry de Wolfe. - Copyright, 1937, for The Telegram) |