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Show Parsonage and White House According to the Christian Herald, during one-fourth of our nationhood there have been parsonage children presiding over the White House. Abigail Abi-gail Adams was the daughter of a Congregational minister. The wives of both Millard Fillmore and Franklin Frank-lin Pierce were parsonage born. James A. Garfield was nn ordained minister. Grover Cleveland was the descendant of a long line of ministerial min-isterial forbears. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison was the daughter of Rev. John W. Scntt. Both Woodrow Wilson Wil-son and his first wife were parsonage parson-age children. James Madison studied for the ministry in his youth. Chester Ches-ter A. Arthur was the son of a Baptist Bap-tist minister Hula Minthorn Hoover was a Quaker preacher, while Bou Henry Hoover is the granddaughter of a Methodist minister. |