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Despite these claims, Ellen Louise Axson Wilson was an active First Lady who came to love her position and used it to improve life both inside and outside the presidential mansion.
The body of work First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson left behind is valuable not only in documenting her skill as a developing artist, but also as a record of her life as a wife, mother, reformer, and First Lady. Heavily influenced by the popular American impressionist movement, Ellen’s work incorporates the themes, brushwork, color, solidity, and interest in plein-air painting that are hallmarks ...
Ellen Louise Axson was born on May 15, 1860 and grew up in Rome, Georgia, where her father, the Reverend S. E. Axson, was a Presbyterian minister. Thomas Woodrow Wilson first saw her when he was about six and she only a baby. In 1883, as a young lawyer from Atlanta, “Tommy” visited Rome and met “Miss Ellie Lou” again—a beautiful girl ...
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (født Axson; 15. mai 1860, død 6. august 1914 ), [9] var den første kona til Woodrow Wilson (USAs 28. president) og mor til deres tre døtre.
First Lady Biography: Ellen Wilson. Ellen Louise Axson was named after two aunts and born in the home of her paternal grandparents. Samuel Edward Axson, was born 23 December 1836, in Waltourville, Georgia. In 1856, he enrolled at Oglethorpe College, to study for the ministry, and was ordained in 1859, assigned to the pastorate of Beech Island ...
Ellen Axson Wilson was the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson and First Lady of the United States from 1913 until her death in 1914. "I am naturally the most unambitious of women and life in the White House has no attractions for me." Mrs. Wilson was writing to thank President Taft for advice concerning the mansion he was leaving.
Ellen Axson Wilson, born in 1860 in Savannah, Ga., grew up in Georgia’s Rome, and went on to become the First Lady of Princeton University, the First Lady of New Jersey, and the First Lady of the United States, as the beloved first wife of 28th U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.
