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 1856 - 1924 (67 years)
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| Name |
Thomas Woodrow Wilson |
| Born |
28 Dec 1856 |
Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, U.S.A.  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
3 Feb 1924 |
Washington, D.C., USA |
| Notes |
- 28th President of the United States, In office - March 4, 1913 to March 4, 1921, Vice President Thomas Marshall, Preceded by William Taft, Succeeded by Warren Harding.
34th Governor of New Jersey, In office January 17, 1911 ? March 1, 1913, Preceded by John Fort, Succeeded by James Fielder as Acting Governor.
13th President of Princeton University, In office 1902 to 1910, Preceded by Francis Patton, Succeeded by John Stewart (Acting)
Personal details, Born December 28, 1856, Staunton, Virginia, U.S., Died February 3, 1924 (aged 67), Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party Democratic, Spouse(s) Ellen Axson (1885-1914), Edith Bolling (1915-1924)
Children: Margaret, Jessie, Eleanor
Alma mater Davidson College, Princeton University, University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins University, Profession Academic, Historian, Political scientist, Religion Presbyterianism
Above is from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson
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| Person ID |
I39148 |
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| Last Modified |
30 Dec 2011 |
| Father |
Reverend Joseph Ruggles Wilson, b. 28 Feb 1822, Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, U.S.A. , d. 21 Jan 1903, Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, U.S.A. (Age 80 years) |
| Mother |
Janet E. Woodrow, b. 20 Dec 1826, Carlisle, Cumberland County, England , d. 15 Apr 1888, Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee, U.S.A. (Age 61 years) |
| Married |
7 Jun 1849 |
Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, U.S.A. |
| Family ID |
F18043307 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Born - 28 Dec 1856 - Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, U.S.A. |
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 | Died - 3 Feb 1924 - Washington, D.C., USA |
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 | Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), Birthplace, Staunton, VA
http://www.woodrowwilson.org/the-manse
"Sitting atop the crest of a hill in downtown Staunton's Gospel Hill historic district is the birthplace of President Woodrow Wilson. The house is often referred to as a 'manse.' which is the term the Presbyterian Church uses to identify the residence of their minister.
In 1844 Staunton Presbyterian Church called the Reverend Benjamin Mosby Smith as minister. Mr. Smith declined--perhaps due to the lack of housing. The next year the church purchased lots on the eastern edge of the thriving town to build a 'manse.' Shortly after this Reverend Smith accepted a renewed call. In January 1846, church session minutes record an appropriation for building the manse. Mrs. Smith's father, the Reverend James Morrison of Rockbridge County, Virginia wrote, 'The congregation has contracted to have a house built for Mr. Smith, which it is said will be the best house in Staunton when it is finished. The lot on which it is to be built is one of the most beautiful situations in Staunton. . .'
Reverend Smith and his family moved into the comfortable new home in June 1847 and remained its first residents until 1854 when Mr. Smith was elected professor at Union Theological Seminary, then located at Hampden-Sydney College in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In December 1854, the Reverend Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a professor at Hampden-Sydney College, accepted a call to be pastor of Staunton Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Wilson, his wife, Jessie Woodrow Wilson, and their daughters Marion and Annie moved into the Staunton manse in March 1855. One year and nine months later on December 28, 1856, the third Wilson child was born 'at 12¾ o'clock at night,' as his proud father recorded in the family Bible. The child was named Thomas Woodrow Wilson for his maternal grandfather." |
 | Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), Family Home, Augusta, GA
http://wilsonboyhoodhome.org/
419 Seventh Street, Augusta, GA 30901
"The Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson was built in 1859 by local stove merchant, Aaron H. Jones, a native of Eastport, Maine. Jones, however, never occupied the house, selling it when it was new for $10,000 in February, 1860 to the Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church. Across Telfair Street from the church, the new house was a convenient location for the manse. The Rev. Dr. Joseph Ruggles Wilson, the minister, also received a raise from $2,500 to $3,000 per year. The First Presbyterian congregation was very pleased with its pastor, and by providing monetary and temporal comforts in this life, hoped to encourage him to remain with them for many years. Thus, 53 McIntosh Street, later known as 419 Seventh Street, would remain the official residence of the pastor of First Presbyterian Church for the next seventy years. . . . The Wilsons lived in the house for almost eleven years, witnessing the Civil War and Reconstruction. . . . Tommy's first memory was standing on the front gate when two men walked by exclaiming that Lincoln had been elected President and that there would be war.
At the end of that war, Tommy watched as Confederate President Jefferson Davis was brought through the streets of Augusta under guard of Union troops. In 1870, Tommy accompanied his father to see the great fallen Confederate hero, Robert E. Lee, during his last tour of the South. Later that year, the Southern Presbyterian Church called the Rev. Dr. Wilson to an important teaching position at its seminary in Columbia, South Carolina."
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 | Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), His bedroom in Wilson family home, Augusta, GA
http://www.augustaga.org/Things-to-Do/Historic-Homes/Boyhood-Home-of-President-Woodrow-Wilson |
 | Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), Youth in Augusta, GA
http://www.wilsonboyhoodhome.org/manse.html |
 | Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
Library of Congress:
"Woodrow Wilson was president of Princeton University (1902–1910), governor of New Jersey (1911–1913), twenty-eighth president of the United States (1913–1921), and creator of the League of Nations.
Although he was sometimes caricatured as a northern academic, Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia, and considered himself to be southern. As such, he was the first southerner elected president since Zachary Taylor in 1848, and brought to the office a progressive zeal for reform, both economic and social, as well as the typical mindset of the southern white political class, which considered African Americans second-class citizens, that contributed to his decision strictly to segregate the federal workforce. He is perhaps best known for leading the United States into the World War I (1914–1918), despite an election vow to do otherwise, and for helping to negotiate the resulting Treaty of Versailles. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919." |
 | Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), Pierce Arrow limousine
http://www.woodrowwilson.org/the-pierce-arrow
"When Woodrow Wilson returned from France after negotiating the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, a new Pierce-Arrow limousine awaited him at the dock in New York to take him back to Washington. The automobile, just been added to the White House fleet, had received its finishing touches at the plant of the manufacturer, the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company of Buffalo, New York, in June 1919. It was the 120th of the "Series 51" model.
From July, 1919, until the inauguration of his successor in 1921, President Wilson rode frequently in the handsome limousine on official business. The automobile was distinguished by two special emblems. On each of its arched rear passenger doors, the Presidential Seal was displayed. On the front of the radiator panel was the AAA symbol, for in 1917 he was the first President of the United States to join the association. Wilson favored this automobile so much that when he left office, his friends purchased it for him to use."
A gift to the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation from Wilson's widow, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the limousine has been restored and its engine is in full working order. It is on display in the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Museum."
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