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Show Wives of Chief Executives Women Who Have Worthily Occupied the Trying Position of Mistresses of the White House, as "First Lady," and Their Maiden Names. The names of the Presidents' wives, and their names before marriage mar-riage are thus recorded: Martha Washington was born Martha Mar-tha Dandridge, 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 a Congregational minister minis-ter of Weymouth, Mass. Mrs. Jefferson Jef-ferson and Mrs. Madison, like Martha Mar-tha Washington, had both been previously married. Martha Wayles' first husband died before she was twenty, and at twenty-four she married mar-ried Jefferson. Dolly Madison was born Dolly Payne, and later became the wife of John Todd, a Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania lawyer who died in 17D3. Eliza Kortwright of New York city married James Monroe in 17S0. Mrs. John Quincy Adams was Louisa Catherine Johnson of English birth. Rachel Donelsnn 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. I.etitia C. 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 Mansion Man-sion after the body of her father, killed on a warship on the Potomac, had been taken there. She was Julia Gardiner, then twenty-four. Sarah Childress of Murfreesboro, Tenn.. became Mrs. Polk. Mrs. Taylor Tay-lor was Margaret Smith of Calvert county, Maryland. Fillmore's first wife was Abigail Powers of New Y'ork ; his second, who had also been married before. Caroline Carmichael Mcintosh of New Jersey. Franklin Pierce married Jane Means Apple-ton, Apple-ton, daughter of a president of Bovvdoin college. Euchanan was un-I un-I married. Mary Todd, of 4 pioneer Kentucky family, became Abraham Lincoln's wife. Johnson's; was Eiiza McCardle, i who had taught him to write. Mrs. I Grant, before her marriage, was ! Julia Dent, daughter of a St. Louis j Judge. Lucy Ware Webb of Chilli-j Chilli-j cot he. Ohio, was President Hayes' I wife, and Lucretia Rudolph of Gar- rettsville was Garfield's. I President Arthur married E'.'.en i Lewis Herndon of New York: Cleve-j Cleve-j 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 Executive Ex-ecutive Mansion), and his second, Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Dimmlck, 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 H. Taft married Helen Heron of Cincinnati. Cincin-nati. Woodrow Wilson's first wife-was wife-was Ellen Louise Axson of Rome. Ga. ; the second, Edith Boiling of Wytheville, Va.; the widow of Norman Nor-man Gait, a Washington Jeweler. Florence Kling DeWolfe was divorced di-vorced when she married Warren G. Harding. Mrs. Coolidge was born Grace Goodhue of Burlington, Yt Mrs. Hoover was born Lou Henry, at Waterloo, Iowa ; and Mrs. Roosevelt, Roose-velt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, New-York New-York city. Cleveland Plain Dealer. |