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Presented by Woodrow Wilson as a gift to John G. Jamison, a metropolitan police officer and pallbearer at Ellen Wilson’s funeral, this painting is believed to depict the gardens at the President’s summer home in “Harlakenden” in Cornish, New Hampshire in the summer of 1913. Described in The New York Times as “a terrace from which one ...
Photo of the funeral procession through the town of Rome, Georgia to Myrtle Hill Cemetery, where Ellen Axson Wilson was buried.
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Ellen Axson Wilson (1860-1914), the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson, was a reform-minded First Lady and an artist in the American Impressionist style. Born in Savannah Georgia in 1860, Ellen demonstrated artistic ability from an early age. From 1875 to 1878 she studied art with Helen F. Fairchild at the Female College in Rome, Georgia.
Ellen Wilson (* 15. Mai 1860 in Savannah, Georgia als Ellen Louise Axson; † 6. August 1914 im Weißen Haus, Washington, D.C.) war die erste Ehefrau von US-Präsident Woodrow Wilson und die First Lady der Vereinigten Staaten von 1913 bis zu ihrem Tod. Ihre Eltern waren Reverend Samuel Edward Axson (1836–1884) und Margaret Jane Hoyt (1831 ...
Ellen Wilson and Her Daughters. From left to right: Ellen Louise Axson Wilson and her three daughters, Jessie, Margaret, and Nell on the south portico of the White House. Family time, books, and art were Ellen Wilson's favorite pastimes, and this explains the attention she gave to redecorating the family quarters of the White House.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson first saw Ellen when he was about six and she only a baby. In 1883, as a young lawyer from Atlanta, "Tommy" visited Rome (Georgia) and met "Miss Ellie Lou" again. She was looking after her father’s household. He wanted to marry her. The marriage took place in 1885, as she did not immediately wanted to leave her father alone.
