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Nellie Taft’s Lonely Dinner

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Feather Schwartz Foster

 Helen Herron Taft (1861-1943) did not have a long time to enjoy wearing her stylish Edwardian gowns on the magnificent occasions she had been planning for decades.  Only three months into William Howard Taft’s presidency, she collapsed from a stroke. Mrs. … Continue reading →

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