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Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was the second wife of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States. She grew up in Virginia, where her family had been settled since colonial times. In 1896 she married Norman Galt, a prosperous Washington, D.C. jeweler.
16 de sept. de 2023 · Born in 1872 in West Virginia, Edith Bolling was the daughter of Judge William Holcombe Bolling and Sallie White Bolling. Her ancestry traces back to Colonial Virginia. She is a descendant of Pocahontas on her father’s side. She was related by either blood or marriage to Thomas Jefferson, Martha Washington, and Letitia Christian Tyler, first ...
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, née en 1872 à Wytheville et morte en 1961 à Washington, D.C., en sa qualité de seconde épouse du 28 e président des États-Unis, Woodrow Wilson, est la Première dame des États-Unis du 18 décembre 1915 au 4 mars 1921.
Edith Wilson, wife of World War I President, Woodrow Wilson, sits on a bench and converses with President Harry S. Truman during a White House lawn party for sick and disabled members of the Armed Forces. Mrs. Wilson originated the annual affair after World War I. (See also 92-364.) (Photo in oversize drawer) From: Found in a box of ...
Discover Edith Bolling Wilson’s birthplace, family home, and presidential historic site in downtown Wytheville, Virginia. As one of only eight historic sites across the country dedicated to the interpretation of a First Lady, this museum tells the story of the overlooked, yet vitally important role Edith Bolling Wilson played in the White House at a pivotal moment during World War I.
My Memoir. The second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson began life as a small-town Virginia whose sister's marriage and residence in Washington D.C. had led to her own, as Mrs. Norman Galt. When her first husband died, leaving her a widow at 36, Edith Bolling Galt took an active role in the stewardship of his business affairs, and spent much of her ...
Born in Wytheville, Edith Bolling (October 15, 1872–December 28, 1961) traced her ancestry to Pocahontas and Thomas Jefferson. She attended Martha Washington College, in Abingdon, and then the Richmond Female Seminary. In 1896, she married Norman Galt, the owner of a jewelry store in Washington, D.C. After Galt died, she oversaw the business ...
