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Helen Taft (1909 – 1913) is credited with planting the first two cherry trees on March 27, 1912 just east of today’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. In the company of the Japanese ambassador’s wife, the two ladies set their feet to spades to turn the earth to receive the first trees.
Helen Herron Taft, known to her friends as Nelly, was the First Lady of the U.S. from 1909 to 1913. Her memoirs, Recollections of Full Years (1914) were the first memoirs published by a First Lady. Taft taught French briefly until her marriage to William Howard Taft in 1885, and she served as President of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra after. She came from a political family; both her ...
Bibliographic information. Title. Recollections of Full YearsLibrary of American civilizationRecollections of Full Years, Helen (Herron) Taft (Mrs. William Howard Taft) Author. Helen Herron Taft. Publisher. Dodd, Mead, 1914. Original from. the New York Public Library.
Helen Herron Taft. Biography: As "the only unusual incident" of her girlhood, "Nellie" Herron Taft recalled her visit to the White House at 17 as the guest of President and Mrs. Hayes, intimate friends of her parents. Fourth child of Harriet Collins and John W. Herron, born in 1861, she had grown up in Cincinnati, Ohio, attending a private ...
HELEN HERRON TAFT. 1909-1913. Helen “Nellie” Taft was one of the most politically involved First Ladies in history. She aggressively appealed for Theodore Roosevelt’s endorsement of her husband William Howard Taft for President. Throughout her tenure as First Lady, she actively petitioned for change in the White House and the government ...
Helen Louise Herron Taft ( Cincinnati ( Ohio ), 2 juni 1861 - Washington D.C., 22 mei 1943) was de echtgenote van de Amerikaanse president William Howard Taft en de first lady van het land tussen 1909 en 1913. Ze werd geboren in Cincinnati en was het vierde kind van John W. Herron en Harriet Collins. Op 18-jarige leeftijd ontmoette ze William ...
Helen Herron Taft Manning (August 1, 1891 – February 21, 1987) was an American professor of history and college dean. She was the middle child and only daughter of U.S. President William Howard Taft and his wife Helen Herron .
