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Show PRESIDENT PLANS VISIT I ' EARLY IMEfififfil WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. President Wilson's decision first to visit England on his way to tho peaco conference was mado thai he might participate in tho unveiling of a tablet in honor of his mother at the First Presbyterian church at Carlisle, England, which is not far from Liverpool, and the Scottish Scot-tish border, being just across tho Irish sea from Downpatrick, Ireland, where many members of the Wilson family are burled. According to information from an authoritative source the president presi-dent is deeply touched by the action of the citizens of the city of Carlisle, where his mother spent her early girlhood girl-hood and where her father, the Rev. James Woodrow, was paster of tho First Presbyterian church. The Rev. James Woodrow was born in Downpatrick, Ireland, tho burial place of St. Patrick. His first charge) was In Downpatrick and later lie as-1 sumed tho pastorate at Carllslo, England. Eng-land. The family later moved to Chilli-cothe, Chilli-cothe, Ohio-Rev, Ohio-Rev, Joseph Wilson, the father of the president, was pastor of a Presbyterian Pres-byterian church at Chlllicotho and It was thojre that he met and married Mary Woodrow. Later he assumed the pastorate of a church at Staunton, Va where President Wilson was born. Tho Woodrow family played a prominent prom-inent part In the early days of Carlisle, England, and tho old stono church where the president's grandfather preached and where his mother as a girl attended divine service, is still used by the congregation. The members mem-bers of the church have arranged for emplacement upon a wall of the church of a bronze memorial which will set forth the part which tho mother of the president bore in the history of the church and the world. It Is possible that hq will visit the cemetery at Downpatrick, whero many of his forbears for-bears are at rest. |