Edith Bolling Wilson, the second wife of US President Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 and defacto President after Woodrow's stroke in 1919. - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
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| Woodrow Wilson Administration | 1919 | 1921 |
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| 1872/10/15 | Sallie Spiers White Bolling, wife of William Holcomb Bolling, gives birth to a daughter, Edith Bolling, at home in Wytheville, VA. | Born | Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace | Wytheville | |||
| 1882/00/00 | At age 9, Edith Bolling is confirmed at Saint John's Episcopal Church in Wytheville. | Faith | St John's Episcopal Church | Wytheville | |||
| 1885/00/00 | At age 13, Edith Bolling and her father William Bolling, a member of the Board at the University Of Virginia, visit Monticello in Charlottesville. The Bollings are related to Thomas Jefferson. | Guest | Monticello | Charlottesville, VA | |||
| 1887/10/15 | On my 15 birthday I went off to boarding school - to Martha Washington College, in Abingdon, VA. This school was chosen because I was eager to learn music, and an excellent teacher was there. The professor was a friend or my oldest brother, Rolfe, - EBW | Education | Martha Washington Inn | Abingdon, VA | |||
| 1890/05/29 | The equestrian statue of General Robert E Lee was to be unveiled in Richmond on Decoration Day ... and his old soldiers had been asked to come and march, wearing the old Confederate grey uniforms. My aunt's husband. General Field, was to go. - EBW | Life | Robert E Lee Monument Site | Richmond | |||
| 1896/04/30 | Edith Bolling, daughter of William H and Sallie Bolling, marries Norman Galt at Saint John's Episcopal Church, in Wytheville. | Bride | St John's Episcopal Church | Wytheville | |||
| 1896/05/00 | Edith and Norman Galt first live at the groom's father mansion at (lost) 1328 Connecticut Ave NW before moving to a modest brick house in the Dupont Circle neighborhood at 1404 21st Street. | Home | Dupont Circle Historic District South | Washington, DC | |||
| 1900/00/00 | Norman and Edith Galt move into a larger house at 1308 20th St NW in the Dupont Circle neighborhood (razed). The Galts are parishioners at St Thomas Episcopal Church on Church Street NW. | Faith | St Thomas Episcopal Church, Washington DC | Washington, DC | |||
| 1903/00/00 | After Edith Galt's baby dies her mother, Sallie White Bolling, writes her about the importance of the mandates of the Rest Cure in aid to her recovery. | Life | |||||
| 1904/00/00 | Norman Galt gives his wife Edith a Columbia Elberon Victoria Mark XXXI automobile. As the first woman in DC to drive an electric car, Edith will enjoy the independence of movement that an auto it provides over the other womanly conveyance, a bicycle. | Life | Dupont Circle Historic District South | Washington, DC | |||
| 1908/02/00 | After the death of Norman Galt, Edith Galt takes over the family jewelry business and debts, hires Henry Bergheimer as manager and lives frugally until the obligations are paid. | Work | Galt and Bros Jewelry | Washington, DC | |||
| 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 | Life | Bellevue Stratford Hotel | Philadelphia, PA | Marriage of Edith Bolling Galt and Woodrow Wilson | ||
| 1910/07/00 | we approached the Passion Play with divided feelings as to whether or not it would seem sacrilegious. But as soon as one met the actors and got into the atmosphere of the town, the doubt vanished. - EBW | Audience Member | Oberammergau Theater | Oberammergau | |||
| 1910/07/00 | at the delightful Hotel St Antoine (lost) in Antwerp .... You would be waked often in the early hours by the great Cathedral chimes across the way only to be lulled to sleep again by the accumulated stillness that followed die chiming of huge bells. - EBW | Guest | Cathedral of Our Lady Antwerp | Antwerp | |||
| 1910/07/00 | The big open square... was transformed into a great mart, with stalls or booths where rosy-cheeked Dutch women, wearing a sort of yoke across their shoulders from which polished brass scales were suspended by long chains, sold rolls of golden butter. - EG | Visitor | Middelburg | Netherlands | Butter | ||
| 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. | Life | United States Capitol | Washington, DC | Marriage of Edith Bolling Galt and Woodrow Wilson | ||
| 1913/05/00 | Aboard the steamer MINNETONKA.... We landed at Tilbury Docks, London, at night and my happiness was destroyed for weeks by the pitiful plight of the cattle being forced down a long gangplank. - EBW (SS MINNETONKA was sunk by U-64 1 January 1918.) | Visitor | London International Cruise Terminal | Tilbury | |||
| 1913/06/00 | Not wanting to see the castle, Edith B Galt sits on the lawn outside the Tower of London to write letters. A guard tells her that she must check her bag due to terrorist suffragists bombing landmarks. | Life | The Middle Tower | Tower of London | English Women's Suffrage | ||
| 1914/06/04 | Edith Galt leaves the unveiling of the Confederate Memorial early. "As I had only my little open electric chariot, and the wind was strong enough to sweep away so light a car, I urged that we leave and try to make shelter before we were drenched." - EBG | Visitor | Arlington National Cemetery | Arlington, VA | |||
| 1914/06/04 | That night she (Annie Litchfield) and I were going to the Corcoran Art Gallery to a reception given in honour of Sir Moses. So we had to have a hasty dinner, to be ready to start. - EBG | Visitor | The Corcoran | Washington, DC | |||
| 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. | Life | Rock Creek Park Historic District | Washington, DC | Marriage of Edith Bolling Galt and Woodrow Wilson | ||
| 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. | Guest | White House Executive Residence | The White House | Marriage of Edith Bolling Galt and Woodrow Wilson | ||
| 1915/03/23 | In the upper hall at the White House, Wilson shows Edith Galt the photograph of his tariff address to congress. "I told him the story ... and pointed out myself tucked away in a comer above his head." EBW | Guest | White House Executive Residence | The White House | |||
| 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 | White House Executive Residence | The White House | 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", 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 | Life | Rock Creek Park Historic District | Washington, DC | Marriage of Edith Bolling Galt and Woodrow Wilson | ||
| 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). | Bride | Marriage of Edith Bolling Galt and Woodrow Wilson | ||||
| 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. | Bride | Alexandria Union Station | Alexandria | Marriage of Edith Bolling Galt and Woodrow Wilson | ||
| 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." | Bride | The Homestead | Hot Springs | 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 | White House Private Quarters | The White House | Treaty of Versailles | ||
| 1921/02/00 | The Wilson's take possession of their residence on Embassy Row. Edith will have an elevator installed in place of the dumbwaiter, a billiard room added, rearrange some interior walls and build stacks for Woodrow's library of 8,000 volumes. | Home | Woodrow Wilson House | Washington, DC | |||
| 1921/03/04 | Worried the unfinished decorating will distress Woodrow, Edith is impressed that the family and staff have been able to complete the home furnishings over night. | Home | Woodrow Wilson House | Washington, DC | |||
| 1961/01/28 | Edith Wilson attends the ceremony and rides in John F Kennedy's inaugural parade in Washington, DC. | Guest | Eastern Portico, US Capitol | United States Capitol | JFK Presidential Election | ||
| 1961/12/28 | Edith Bolling Galt Wilson passes away, on Woodrow Wilson's birthday, at her home on S St in Washington, DC. | Died | Woodrow Wilson House | Washington, DC |
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