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Monthly Archives: July 2020
Gideon Welles and the Naval Battle
Gideon Welles was Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War. March 9, 1862 It was a Sunday. Navy Secretary Gideon Welles rushed over to Lincoln’s office, where he found the President and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in a … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Nifty History People
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Civil War history, Edwin M. Stanton, Feather Schwartz Foster, General George McClellan, Gideon Welles, history, Inventor John Ericcson, naval history, naval inventor John Ericcson, President Abraham Lincoln, President James Buchanan, Presidential history, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton, The battle at Hampton Roads, the battle between the US ironclads, The Civil War, The CSS Virginia, The Mariners Museum, The Merrimac, The Merrimack, The USS Monitor, US history, White House history
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Edith Wilson and the Lalique Brooch
Edith Bolling Galt was the widow of a prestigious Washington jeweler. The Jeweler’s Wife Edith Bolling was born in 1872. Her father was a well respected Virginia judge, somewhat down on his fortunes following the Civil War. Edith was also … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Nifty History People, Woodrow Wilson
Tagged American history, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Lady Edity Wilson, First Lady History, French designer Rene Lalique, French jeweler Rene Lalique, Galt's Jewelry, history, Louis Comfort TIffany, Norman Galt, painter Seymour M. Stone, President Woodrow Wilson, Presidential history, Rene Lalique, the Lalique Peace brooch, The Peace Talks after the Great War, The Second Mrs. Wilson, US history, White House history, Wilson and the Great War, Wilson and the Peace Talks, Woodrow Wilson House
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John Quincy Adams: Arborist
John Quincy Adams came late to nature. JQA: The City Fellow John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) was born in rural Massachusetts, but lived within ten miles of Boston, then considered a major city (pop. 10,000) in the Colonies. As a very … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, John Quincy Adams
Tagged Adams' Peacefield estate, American history, Diplomat John Quincy Adams, Feather Schwartz Foster, history, John Adams birthplace, John Ousley, John Quincy Adams, John Quincy Adams birthplace, PResident George Washington, President John Quincy Adams, Presidential history, The education of John Quincy Adams, The White House, The White House gardens, US history, White House gardener Ousley, White House history
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VP James Sherman: Voting for the Dead Guy
James Sherman was VP for William Howard Taft. A Little Bit About Sherman James Schoolcraft Sherman (1852-1912) was born and raised in upstate New York – very very distantly related to General Cump and Senator John of the same name. … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Nifty History People, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft
Tagged American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, history, James Schoolcraft Sherman, James Sherman, James Sherman and Bright's Disease, Nicholas Murray Butler, P:resident William Howard Taft, President Theodore Roosevelt, the election of 1904, The election of 1909, The election of 1912, the Republican Old Guard, the Republican party in 1912, US history, US Vice Presidents, Vice President James Sherman, Vice Presidential history, VP James Sherman, William Jennings Bryan
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