| 1909/03/19 |
As Edith Galt and her party leave the dining room one evening, the hotel manager says they can look in the ballroom for a few minutes and see the president of Princeton University addressing the alumni. "That was my first glimpse of Woodrow Wilson." - EBW |
Bellevue Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
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| 1913/04/08 |
Edith Galt watches from the House Gallery as President Wilson address a Joint Session of Congress on Tariff Reform. She can be seen in photos near the clock above the President. |
United States Capitol, Washington, DC
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| 1915/03/18 |
Edith Galt muddies her shoes on a walk through Rock Creek Park with Helen Woodrow Bones. Afterwards, Helen takes Edith to tea at the White House. Helen Bones is President Wilson's first cousin. |
Rock Creek Park Historic District, Washington, DC
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| 1915/03/18 |
Still muddy from her walk, Edith B Galt meets President Woodrow Wilson during tea at the White House. Wilson, also muddy, was playing golf but returned early. |
White House Executive Residence, The White House
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| 1915/05/04 |
Woodrow Wilson's Pierce Arrow brings Mrs Galt to dine at the White House. After diner, they sit on the South Portico unchaperoned. Woodrow tells Edith he loves her and ask her to marry him. She turns him down. |
White House Executive Residence, The White House
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| 1915/05/05 |
Resting on a rock in Rock Creek, Bones tells Edith that Cousin Wilson looks really ill. Bones burst into tears, "Just as I thought some happiness was coming into his life! And now you are breaking his heart." |
Rock Creek Park Historic District, Washington, DC
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| 1915/05/05 |
Beginning to feel like an "ogre", I can not "consent to something I did not feel." I'm "playing with fire where he was concerned, for his whole nature was intense and did not willingly wait, but that I must have time to know my own heart". - Edith Galt |
Rock Creek Park Historic District, Washington, DC
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| 1915/05/05 |
As Dr Grayson rides by on a horse, Edith burst into tears. When Dr Grayson ask whats wrong, Edith responds that she simply tripped. |
Rock Creek Park Historic District, Washington, DC
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| 1915/10/06 |
President Woodrow Wilson announces his engagement to Edith Bolling Galt. The Washington Post will publish several articles on Edith Galt's lineage from Pocahontas. |
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| 1915/12/16 |
Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt obtain a marriage license. |
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| 1915/12/18 |
Beneath a canopy of green, banked with ferns, Scotch heather and orchids, President Woodrow Wilson and Mrs Edith Bolling Galt are married at her home on 20th Street near Dupont Circle, in Washington, DC (razed). |
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| 1915/12/18 |
Shortly after 10 o'clock the President and Mrs Wilson are chauffeured in a White House automobile to Alexandria Union Station, across the Potomac from the crowed railroad station in Washington. |
Alexandria Union Station, Alexandria
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| 1915/12/18 |
President and Mrs Wilson board their private car attached to a special train at Alexandria railroad station at 11:40 PM and soon depart for Hot Springs, Virginia. |
Alexandria Union Station, Alexandria
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| 1915/12/19 |
Mr Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Wilson begin a 2 week honeymoon at the Homestead Hotel in Hot Springs, Virginia. The "couple expect to spend their honeymoon motoring, golfing and walking over the mountain trails." |
The Homestead, Hot Springs
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| 1915/12/19 |
President Woodrow Wilson is accompanied on his honeymoon at the Homestead by the secret service guard and one stenographer. The President will keep in touch with the White House over special telegraph wires. |
The Homestead, Hot Springs
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