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Author Archives: Feather Foster
Ida McKinley’s Slippers
Poor Ida McKinley Ida Saxton McKinley (1848 – 1908) was the pretty, wealthy and privileged daughter of a well-to-do Canton, Ohio businessman/banker. At twenty-three, she married young attorney William McKinley, formerly a brevet-major in the Civil War. His practice was … Continue reading
Posted in American Civil War
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The Unexpected Death of Zachary Taylor
During the past few decades, a couple of mild kerfluffles were posed by eminent scholars who suspected that POTUS Rough and Ready may have been done in! Ol’ Zach Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) was Virginia born to a middle class family … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Nifty History People, Zachary Taylor
Tagged "Old Rough and Ready", American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Lady Margaret Taylor, General Zachary Taylor, Henry Clay, history, Mrs. Zachary Taylor, President James K. Polk, President William Henry Harrison, President Zachary Taylor, Presidential history, The Compromise of 1850, the Mexican War, The Whig Party in the 1840s, US history, VP John Tyler, VP Millard Fillmore, White House history, Zachary Taylor
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Bess Truman: Waiting for Harry
The Old Soldier Harry Truman was 33, well past the age for a man to be a volunteer soldier, unless, of course, the country is in severe danger. In 1917, when the US entered the Great War, as it was … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Harry S Truman, Nifty History People
Tagged American history, Bess Truman's father David Wallace, Bess Wallace, Bess Wallace Truman, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, Harry S Truman, Harry Truman, Harry Truman enlists in WWI, Harry Truman's mother-in-law, history, Madge Gates Wallace, Madge Wallace, Presidential history, US history
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Abraham Lincoln: Quibbling Thanksgiving
In 1863 Thanksgiving Day had been a local or regional holiday for more than two centuries. Quibbling The Day Massachusetts has long maintained that a day of Thanksgiving was celebrated a year after the devout Pilgrims landed in Plymouth in … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Abraham Lincoln, Nifty History People
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Berkeley Thanksgiving, Feather Schwartz Foster, George Washington proclaims Thanksgiving, history, John Nicolay, Lincoln and Thanksgiving, Lincoln signs Thanksgiving Proclamation, Lincoln's Secretary John Nicolay, Norman Rockwell, Pilgrim Thanksgiving, Presidential history, Sarah Josepha Hale, Sarah Josepha Hale sparks federal Thanksgiving, Secretary of State Seward, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Seward drafts Thanksgiving Proclamation, Thanksgiving Day Tradition, White House history, William H. Seward
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Grant, Grant, The Tanner’s Son…
Held his nose and away he run… Jesse Grant, Tanner Jesse Root Grant (1794-1873) was Pennsylvania-born, but migrated to southern Ohio as a small child. He had a decent education for his time and station in life, but possessed a … Continue reading
Posted in American Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant
Tagged American history, Early life of U.S. Grant, Feather Schwartz Foster, General Ulysses S. Grant, Grant in Galena IL, Grant in Mexican War, Grant in St. Louis, Grant's experiences at tannery, Hannah Grant, Hannah Simpson Grant, history, Jesse Grant, Jesse Root Grant, Julia and Ulysses S. Grant, Presidential history, U.S. Grant at West Point, U.S. Grant's family, US history, White House history
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Lou Henry Hoover and Women’s Athletics
The Western Woman Despite her birth and early girlhood in Iowa, Lou Henry (1874-1944) spent most of her growing-up years in California when it was still considered the “Wild West.” Her father, Charles Henry, was a middle class banker, … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Herbert Hoover, Nifty History People
Tagged American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, First Lady Lou Hoover, history, Lou Henry Hoover, National Amateur Athletic Federation, Presidential history, US history, White House history, women's athletics in early 20th century
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Burying Mary Lincoln
Everybody knows about Lincoln’s assassination and the huge funeral journey back to Springfield. But what about when Mary died? Mary Lincoln, Widow Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882) became a widow when she was 45, and survived her husband by seventeen years. … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Abraham Lincoln, Nifty History People
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Elizabeth Todd Edwards, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Lady History, history, John Carroll Power Tomb Custodian, Lincoln's Tomb, Mary Lincoln, Mary Todd Lindoln, Oak Lawn Cemetery in Springfield IL, Presidential history, Robert Lincoln, Robert Todd Lincoln, The death of Mary Lincoln, US history
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FDR and the March of Dimes
Of all the programs undertaken by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, none was more personal than the National Infantile Paralysis Foundation. Polio Polio is the common name given to “infantile paralysis,” a contagious and horrible disease, thankfully near eradication today. It was … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tagged American history, Basil O'Connor, Dr. Albert Sabin, Dr. Jonas Salk, Entertainer Eddie Cantor, FDR initiates the March of Dimes, Feather Schwartz Foster, history, Presidential history, The Little White House in Warm Springs GA, The March of Dimes, The National Infantile Paralysis Foundation, the polio vaccine, US history, Warm Springs GA, White House history
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Burying James Monroe – Again
A quarter century after James Monroe died, he was buried. Again. James Monroe, Virginian Like his close friends and Revolutionary companions Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, James Monroe (1758-1831) had strong ties to Virginia. Monroe could arguably considered the one … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, George Washington, James Madison, James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson
Tagged American history, Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, Feather Schwartz Foster, George Washington, history, Hollywood Cemetery, James Madison, James Monroe, Maria Hester Monroe, MOnticello, Montpelier, Mount Vernon, President James Monroe, Presidential history, Samuel Gouverueur, Thomas Jefferson, US history, Virginia's Presidents
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Dolley Madison and the War of 1812: A Book Review
This is a book for middle-school readers. Eons ago, when old-me was a very very young-me, Scribner’s published as “Scribner’s Junior” – a series of biographies geared to perhaps second through sixth grades, depending on reading skills. (Mine were excellent!) … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, James Madison, Nifty History People, Recommended Reading
Tagged American history, Dolley Madison, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, history, History Book Reviews, James Madison, Libby Carty McNamee, The War of 1812, US history, White House history
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