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Helen Taft. 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 school in the ...
Helen Herron Taft's legacy in Washington, D.C., continues to this day, represented each spring with the blooming of the Japanese cherry trees that line the capital's tidal basin. They result form Mrs. Taft's campaign in 1909 for planting thousands of the young flowering trees that she recalled from her years in Asia while her husband was governor of the Philippines.
First Lady Biography: Helen Taft. HELEN LOUISE "NELLIE" HERRON TAFT. Birth: 2 June, 1861. Cincinnati, Ohio. She was called "Nellie" from childhood on. The nickname served as a further distinction from her daughter Helen. As First Lady, she nevertheless signed correspondence to non-family members as "Helen H."
When Helen Herron "Helene" Taft was born on 1 August 1891, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, her father, President William Howard Taft, was 33 and her mother, Helen "Nellie" Herron, was 30. She married Frederick Johnson Manning in 1920, in Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters.
Taft graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1915, was named dean in 1917, and rose to acting president in 1919. The Helen Taft Manning papers house the records of Helen Taft Manning. This collection, which dates from 1861 to 1992, with bulk dates of 1915 to 1974, consists of correspondence, writings, clippings, and personal objects from the Manning family.
17 de oct. de 2013 · Granddaughter of William Howard Taft and Helen Herron Taft. The following is courtesy of Find-a-Grave contributor Lon Mason: Helen Manning Hunter Helen Manning Hunter, professor emeritus of economics and Mary Hale Chase professor emeritus of the social sciences at Bryn Mawr College, died Thursday October 17th at The...
