Edith Wilson
American
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the second wife of US President Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921. - AsNotedIn
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the second wife of US President Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1872/10/15 | Sallie Spiers White Bolling, wife of William Holcomb Bolling, gives birth to a daughter, Edith Bolling, at 145 East Main St, Wytheville, VA. | Born | Wytheville Historic District | Wytheville | |||
| 1887/09/00 | At age 15, Edith Bolling enrolls at Martha Washington College in Abingdon, Virginia, to study music, with a second year at a smaller school in Richmond. | Education | Martha Washington Inn | Abingdon, VA | |||
| 1896/00/00 | Edmonia Bolling marries Norman Galt and they move into a modest brick house in the Dupont Circle neighborhood at 1404 21st St. | Home | Dupont Circle Historic District | Washington, DC | |||
| 1900/00/00 | Norman and Edith Galt move into a larger house at 1308 21st St in the Dupont Circle neighborhood (razed). | Home | |||||
| 1905/08/30 | Miss Edith Wilson sails on White Star Line's RMS Majestic, departing from Liverpool to New York via Queenstown (Cobh), Commanded by Captain B F Hayes, Lt RNR. | Life | Albion House, Liverpool | Liverpool | |||
| 1915/03/00 | 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. | Life | Rock Creek Park Historic District | Washington, DC | Marriage of Edith Bolling Galt and Woodrow Wilson | ||
| 1915/03/00 | Edith Bolling Galt meets President Woodrow Wilson during tea at the White House. | Guest | The White House | Washington, DC | Marriage of Edith Bolling Galt and Woodrow Wilson | ||
| 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. | Life | The White House | Washington, DC | Marriage of Edith Bolling Galt and Woodrow Wilson | ||
| 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." | Life | Rock Creek Park Historic District | Washington, DC | Marriage of Edith Bolling Galt and Woodrow Wilson | ||
| 1915/05/05 | Beginning to feel like an "ogre," Galt responses, 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". | Life | Rock Creek Park Historic District | Washington, DC | Marriage of Edith Bolling Galt and Woodrow Wilson | ||
| 1915/12/18 | Edith Bolling Galt marries President Woodrow Wilson at her home, 1328 Connecticut Ave near Dupont Circle, in Washington, DC (razed). | Bride | Marriage of Edith Bolling Galt and Woodrow Wilson | ||||
| 1918/12/13 | On his way to the Paris Peace Conference, President Woodrow Wilson arrives in Brest, France. He sailed on the ocean liner George Washington escorted by ten battleships and twenty-eight destroyers. | Confidant | USS ARIZONA Wreck | World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument - Hawaii | Treaty of Versailles | ||
| 1918/12/28 | Woodrow Wilson celebrates his 62 birthday in London, England. Mr and Mrs Wilson stay at Buckingham Palace where King George V gives Woodrow a present. | Visitor | Buckingham Palace | London | |||
| 1918/12/29 | US President Woodrow Wilson and First Lady Edith stay the night at The Crown and Miter Hotel. | Visitor | Crown And Mitre Hotel | Carlisle | |||
| 1918/12/29 | US President Wilson visits his grandfather's parish. Rev Thomas Woodrow was minister of this church (on another site, small chapel on Annetwell St, demolished 1875-77) from 1820-1835. | Visitor | Congregational Church | Carlisle | |||
| 1919/10/02 | Edith Wilson finds the president unconscious on the bathroom floor of their private White House quarters with a cut on his head. Woodrow Wilson had suffered a near-fatal stroke leaving him unable to speak or move. | First Lady | The White House | Washington, DC | Treaty of Versailles | ||
| 1921/03/04 | President and Mrs Wilson move from the White House to their S Street home on the last day of his presidency, 4 March 1921. | Home | Woodrow Wilson House | Washington, DC | |||
| 1961/01/20 | John F Kennedy is inaugurated President of the United States on Friday, January 20, 1961 at the eastern portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC. | Guest | Eastern Portico, US Capitol | United States Capitol | JFK Presidential Election | ||
| 1961/12/28 | Edith Bolling Galt Wilson passes away at her home on S St in Washington, DC. | Died | Woodrow Wilson House | Washington, DC |