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Tag Archives: Rutherford B. Hayes
The Presidents and the Exes: Part II
Money, Corruption, Business, Reconstruction, Immigration… The thirty years leading to the Twentieth Century presented opportunities and problems our Founders would have never imagined! Railroads were crisscrossing the country in a week. Industry was booming. New inventions like electric light and … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, American Civil War, Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Harrison, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, James Garfield, Rutherford Hayes, William McKinley
Tagged American history, Benjamin Harrison, Feather Schwartz Foster, General Ulysses Grant, Grover Cleveland, history, James A. Garfield, President Andrew Johnson, President Chester Alan Arthur, President Grover Cleveland, President James A. Garfield, President Rutherford B. Hayes, President Ulysses S. Grant, President William McKinley, Presidential history, Rutherford B. Hayes, US history, Vice President Chester Alan Arthur, William Jennings Bryan, William McKinley
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Lucy Hayes: Camp Mother
Lucy Hayes was born to be a mother. Lucy: Girl to Woman Lucy Ware Webb (1831-1889) was born and raised in Chillicothe OH, when the state was becoming a major industrial force in the country. In-home manufacturing was declining and … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, American Civil War, Nifty History People, Rutherford Hayes
Tagged American history, Civil war General Rutherford B. Hayes, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, General Rutherford B. Hayes, history, Lucy Hayes, Lucy Webb Hayes, Presidential history, Presidential wives, Rutherford B. Hayes, the education of Lucy Webb, the Ohio 23rd, US history, White House history
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William McKinley: The Best Career Move
At the suggestion of General Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley decided to study law. The Hard-Knocks Youth of William McKinley Born in Niles, raised in the little village of Poland, Ohio, William McKinley, Jr. was the seventh of nine children. … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, William McKinley
Tagged American history, Canton OH in 1865, Feather Schwartz Foster, General Rutherford B. Hayes, history, Ohio attorney Charles Glidden, Ohio attorney Judge George Belden, Presidential history, Rutherford B. Hayes, The professional opportunities for William McKinley, US history, White House history, William McKinley, young William McKinley
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Lucy Hayes and the WCTU Portrait
First Lady Lucy Hayes was considered the embodiment of the “New Woman.” But was she? Lucy Hayes: The Old Fashioned Girl Lucy Ware Webb (1831-79) was Ohio born, and half-orphaned by the time she was two. Her mother, Maria Webb, … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Nifty History People, Rutherford Hayes
Tagged American history, Artist Daniel Huntington, Cincinnati Wesleyan Female College, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Lady History, First Lady Lucy Hayes, history, Lucy Hayes, Lucy Webb Hayes, Mary Clemmer Ames, Portrait artist Daniel Huntington, President Rutherford B. Hayes, Presidential history, Rutherford B. Hayes, The First Ladies, The WCTU, US history, Washington Journalist Mary Clemmer Ames, White House history, Women's Christian Temperance Union
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William McKinley: The Carnation Story
Few Presidents were as genuinely considerate as William McKinley. Poor Boy Makes Good William McKinley (1843-1901) was one of seven children born to an Ohio iron-worker and his wife. They were poor, devout Methodists, but firmly focused on their children’s … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, William McKinley
Tagged American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Lady Ida McKinley, history, Ida McKinley, Ida McKinley's health, Leon Czolgosz, McKinley assassin Czolgosz, McKinley's carnations, President William McKinley, Presidential history, Rutherford B. Hayes, US history, White House history, William McKinley
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Rutherford Hayes’ Secret Oath
The election of 1876 was one of the most rancorous, divisive and probably corrupt in American history. Oddly Enough… Both Governor Rutherford Hayes (R-OH) and Governor Samuel Tilden (D-NY) were honest, decent men, albeit … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Nifty History People, Rutherford Hayes
Tagged American history, Boss Tweed, Chief Justice Morrison Waite, Feather Schwartz Foster, General Ulysses S. Grant, Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, Governor Samuel TIlden, history, Horace Greeley, President Andrew Johnson, President Rutherford B. Hayes, President Ulysses S. Grant, Presidential history, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, The election of 1876, The Grant presidency, The inauguration of Hayes, US history, White House history
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William McKinley and Czolgosz the Assassin
William McKinley was one of the best liked Presidents. Why would anyone want to kill him? William McKinley, the Popular By all accounts, William McKinley was a warm, friendly and agreeable fellow. Born in 1843 in a small Ohio town, … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Nifty History People, William McKinley
Tagged American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, history, Leon Czolgosz, McKinley assassin Czolgosz, McKinley's popularity, political anarchists, President William McKinley, presidential assassins, presidential assinations, Presidential history, Rutherford B. Hayes, the assassination of McKinley, the Pan American Exhibition in 1901, US history, White House history, William McKinley, William McKinley's assassination
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FIRST DADS: A Book Review
Author Joshua Kendall has whipped up a dandy light-history read! FIRST DADS is filled with stories, tidbits and gossip about our Presidents – and how they stacked up as fathers. Or not. The author begins with an important premise (not … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Recommended Reading
Tagged "First Dads", Fathers in the White House, Feather Schwartz Foster, George Washington, Jack Custis, John Adams, John and Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams, Joshua Kendall, President Obama as father, President Theodore Roosevelt, Presidential fathers, Presidential history, Rutherford B. Hayes, Rutherford B. Hayes as father, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt as father, Ulysses S Grant as father, Ulysses S. Grant
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The Jackson-Hayes-Clinton Connection
Losing a father as a boy is not unusual. Losing a father before you are born is VERY unusual. Posthumous Children Posthumous children, those whose fathers die before the child is born is rare – even in an age when … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Andrew Jackson, Rutherford Hayes
Tagged American history, Andrew Jackson, Bill Clinton, Feather Schwartz Foster, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, GHW Bush, Hayes Uncle Sardis Birchard, history, Posthumous Presidents, President Andrew Jackson, President Bill Clinton, President Clinton, President George H.W. Bush, President George W. Bush, President Hayes, President Jackson, President Rutherford B. Hayes, Presidential history, Rutherford B. Hayes, Rutherford Hayes, Sardis Birchard, US history, William Clinton, William J. Clinton
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First Lady Nellie Taft and the CSO
Helen Herron Taft had two passions in her life. First and foremost was politics. Then came music. Nellie Taft: Musician and Politician Piano lessons was practically a given in most nineteenth century middle-class families. Of course, then as now, not … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, William Howard Taft
Tagged American history, Annie Taft, Charles Phelps Taft, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Feather Schwartz Foster, Federation of Woman's Clubs, First Ladies, First Ladies history, Founding the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Helen Herron Taft, history, Lucy Hayes, Mrs. William Howard Taft, Nellie Taft, President Benjamin Harrison, President Rutherford B. Hayes, President William McKinley, Presidential history, Presidential wives, Rutherford B. Hayes, Solicitor General Taft, the "CSO", The Taft family, US history, White House history, William Howard Taft, Woman's Clubs
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