administration was his sister Mary, wife of John McElroy of Albany, N. Y. Grover Cleveland, a Democrat, born at Caldell, N. J., died of debility at Princeton, N. J., was cended from Moses Cleveland, of England, who ded near Woburn, Mass., in 1635. Grover's her. Richard Falley Cleveland, was a son of a Ebmaker, and was pastor of the Presbyterian Cach at Caldwell. His mother was Anne Nealy, Mitimore, daughter of a merchant, of Irish birth, was tall, dark and slim. Grover was named the Rev. Stephen Grover, his father's predecesCaldwell. He dropped the "Stephen" while a Fayetteville, N. Y., whither his family had Develand clerked in a store at Clinton, N. Y.; lather dying when 16; he taught, with an older other at the New York City Institution for the d he made up a herd book for his uncle. Lewis Allen, a stock breeder at Black Rock, near Buffalo; bed law at Buffalo and was admitted to the bar 1859; in 1863 became Assistant District Attorney Erie County: defeated for District Attorney in but was elected Sheriff in 1870; in 1881 was el Mayor of Buffalo; in 1882 was elected Govertof New York; in 1884 he was elected President: leated in 1888: re-elected President in 1892. After leaving the White House he settled at maceton, N. J. On the change of control of the quitable Life Assurance Society of New York he made a trustee. He was fond of hunting and aning. Mrs. Cleveland's father, Oscar Folsom, was a partner of Cleveland at Buffalo. Her mother Emma C. Harmon. She married the President the White House and their second daughter born there in 1893. Before the marriage, the ticed at Canton, O.; elected, 1869, Prosecuting Attor- McKinley was a Methodist. He was buried at Mrs. McKinley was a daughter of James Asbury Saxton and Catherine DeWalt. She was educated in private schools, spent some time in Europe and was cashier in her father's bank at Canton, Ohio, when she married. Their two children, Katie and Ida, died in early childhood. A nervous ailment then made her an invalid for the rest of her life. She was, nevertheless, the mistress of the White House, accompanied her husband everywhere, and was with him at Buffalo when he was assassinated. Theodore Roosevelt, Republican, of Holland descent, was born at New York City and died in sleep of heart trouble at Oyster Bay, N. Y. He was a son of Theodore Roosevelt. His grandfather explored the Ohio and Mississippi on the first steamboat that navigated them. Theodore's mother, Martha Bullock, of Roswell, Ga., was descended from Georgia's first Governor, Archibald Bullock. Roosevelt graduated at Harvard, traveled in Europe; served 1882-1884 84 in the New York State stress of the Executive Mansion was the Presi-Assembly; lived 1884-1886 on a North Dakota ranch; t's youngest sister, Rose Elizabeth Cleveland. Preddent Cleveland had five children, Ruth, her, Marion, Richard Folsom, and Francis over. Cleveland's widow married, Feb. 10, 1913, Thomas Jex Preston Jr., Professor of Archaeology Princeton University. Benjamin Harrison, a Republican, was born at North Bend. O., and died of pneumonia, at Indian. He was descended from the Virginia Harrisons. He was the third son of John Scott Harrison, a son of President William Henry Harrison. some, the Harrison lineage is traced to PocaMoutas. Benjamin's mother was Elizabeth F. He worked on his father's 400-acre farm; graduated Miami University; was admitted to practice law 1853 at Cincinnati; elected in 1860 as reporter the Indiana Supreme Court: raised volunteers and ned as a Union General in the Civil War; defeated for Governor in 1876; in 1879 a member of the Mississippi River Commission: in 1881 elected from Indians to the United States Senate: in 1888 was Mented President; in 1892 was renominated but was defeated. Harrison was an elder in the Presbyterian Church at Indianapolis. He was short, sandy, astute, unortable, with small, bright, sharp eyes. His estate was estimated at $375.000. was an unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of New York City in 1886; was Police Commissioner: was a member of the National Civil Service Commission; 1897-1898 Assistant Secretary of the Navy, resigning to organize, with Surgeon Leonard Cavalry (Roosevelt's Rough Riders), which served in Cuba in the Spanish American War, and of which he became Colonel; elected Governor of New York 1898; elected Vice President in 1900 and became President in 1901 on McKinley's assassination; elected President in 1904; hunted in East Africa in 1909-1910; defeated for President on the Progressive (Bull Moose) ticket in 1912; visited and explored South America, 1913-1914. Roosevelt was a voluminous author, and fond of athletics. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. He was shot and wounded at Milwaukee, Oct. 14, 1912, by a crank. He belonged to the Reformed Dutch Church. He was buried at Oyster Bay, N. Y. The first Mrs. Roosevelt was Alice Hathaway Lee, daughter of George Cabot Lee of Boston: she died in 1884. Her only child was Alice Lee Roosevelt, who, in 1906. at the White House, married Nicholas Longworth, a Cincinnati lawyer and landowner and a Republican Representative in Congress. A child, Paulina, was born Feb. 14, 1925. The second Mrs. Roosevelt, whom he married The first Mrs. Harrison, who was born at Ox- in 1886 at London, was Edith Kermit Carow, daugh Ford, O., and died in the White House, was a daughter of Prof. John W. Scott of Miami Univensity, later President of Oxford Seminary. She was a musician and painter, a Presbyterian Sunday school teacher, and was the first President-General of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Harrison's son, Russell B., mining engineer and Journalist, is a Lafayette graduate. Her daughter, Mary, married James R. McKee an Indianapolis merchant. The second Mrs. Harrison was Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Dimmick, niece of the first Mrs. HarTison, and widow of Walter Erskine Dimmick, a wyer, who died at sea. She had spent two years at the White House during her aunt's life. The Ex-President married her at New York City. By the second wife Mr. Harrison had one child, Eliza beth Harrison, born in 1897. In 1921, when she was a lawyer, she married James Blaine Walker a great-nephew of James G. Blaine. The children of the first wife fought the second wife in court over a division of the Harrison estate. William McKinley, a Republican, was born at les. O. and died at Buffalo, N. Y. He was of Highland Scotch descent, his ancestors having lived long in Ireland though before settling in York County. Pa. His father was William McKinley. operator of charcoal furnaces at Niles, O., his mother Was Nancy Allison, of Scotch lineage, whose family had settled in Westmoreland County, Pa. McKinley was the seventh of nine children. He qult Allegheny College to make a living, and taught school; enlisted as a private and served in the Civil War, and came out a Major; studied law and prae ter of Charles Carow of New York City. By this union there were were five children-Theodore jr.. Kermit, Ethel Carow (Mrs. Richard Derby), Archibald Bullock, and Quentin. The last, an aviator in Europe in the World War, was killed in action and was buried where he fell. Theodore, who served as Lieutenant Colonel in the World War, was Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Harding and held over under Coolidge. Kermit and Archie also served in the war. William H. Taft was born at Cincinnati, the son of Alphonso Taft and the latter's second wife, Louisa Maria Torrey, and he is a brother of Henry W. and Horace D. Taft, and a half-brother of Charles P. Taft, the latter's mother being Fannie Phelps, of Vermont. Alphonso Taft was Attorney General in Hayes Cabinet. W. H. Taft graduated in 1878 at Yale, and in 1880 at the Cincinnati Law School; admitted to the Bar in 1880; was a law reporter on Cincinnati dailles; Assistant Prosecuting Attorney 1881-1883; Assistant City Solicitor, 1887: Judge Cincinnati Superior Court, 1887-1890; United States Solicitor General, 1890-1892; United States Circuit Judge, 1892-1900; professor at the University of Cincinnati, 1896-1900; President of the United States Philippine Commission, 1900-1901; Civil Governor of the Philippines. 1901-1904; in 1902 arranged at Rome with Pope Leo XIII. the question of purchase of Roman Catholic lands in the Philippines: Secretary of War under Roosevelt, 1904-1908; Provisional Governor of Cuba for a while in 1907: on Government mission in 1907 to Cuba, Panama and the Philippines. He was elected President in 1908; defeated for re-election in 1912; professor of law at Yale University, 1913-1921; appointed Chief Justice United States Supreme Court, June 30, 1921. He is a Unitarian. Taft is tall, portly and suave. Mrs. Taft was Helen Herron of Cincinnati, a daughter of Judge John W. Herron and Harriet Collins. She is one of eight children, a musician and a founder of the Cincinnati Orchestra. Her father was a law partner of Rutherford B. Hayes before the latter became President. She comes from an old New England family. Her only daughter is Helen Herron Taft, wife of Frederick J. Manning, an instructor in history at Yale University: her sons are Robert Alphonso Taft and Charles Phelps Taft 2d, both of whom are married. Mrs. Taft had a nervous breakdown in 1909 and the mistress of the White House for a time was her sister, Mrs. Louis More, wife of a professor at the University of Cincinnati. She is an Episcopalian. She instituted 5 o'clock teas at the White House. She has blue-gray eyes and a contralto voice, a broad forehead and brown hair. Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, was born at Staunton, Va., and died of heart disease, at Washington. He was a son of a Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson, and Janet Woodrow, daughter of a Scotch Presbyterian Minister; and a grandson of James Wilson, a Presbyterian, of Ulster, Ireland, who settled at Philadelphia in 1807 and became a printer, marrying, in 1808, a girl, also an Ulster Presbyterian, who had come across the Atlantic in the same ship with him. The Wilson ancestry was Scotch-Irish on both sides. Wilson graduated at Princeton University, 1879; graduated in law at the University of Virginia in 1881; and took his Ph.D. degree at Johns Hopkins in 1886. He practiced law at Atlanta, Ga., 1882-1883; taught history and political economy at Bryn Mawr College, 1885-1888 and at Wesleyan University, 1888-1890; professor of jurisprudence and political economy at Princeton University, 1890-1902. In 1902 he was chosen President of Princeton University and served until Oct. 1910; Governor of New Jersey, 1911-1913; elected President in 1912: re-elected in 1916. He helped draft a treaty of peace with Germany, at Paris, in 1919, welding in it the covenant of the League of Nations. The treaty was accepted by Japan and the Allies in Europe, but was rejected by the United States Senate. In campaigning in the West to arouse public sentiment for the treaty, the President became partly paralyzed by apoplexy and thereafter was an invalid. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. Wilson was a Presbyterian. He was entombed at the P. E. Cathedral, Washington. By his will, his daughter, Miss Margaret, inherited an annuity of $2,500, and the rest of the estate went to his widow. Its total value was estimated to be over $600.000. The first Mrs. Wilson, Ellen Louise Axson of Rome, Ga., was a sister of Prof. Stockton Axson of Princeton University and a daughter of the Rev. S. E. Axson and Margaret Hoyt. She was alded, as mistress of the White House, by her three children, Margaret W., Eleanor R., who there became the second wife of William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury under Wilson; and Jessie W., who also there married Francis B. Sayre, professor of law, Harvard. He is a member of the Pennsylvania family that has large coal and rallroad properties. The first Mrs. Wilson died at the White House. The second Mrs. Wilson was Edith Bolling Warren G. Harding was born at Corsica, 0. died of heart trouble, following pneumonia, at & Francisco. He was the son of Dr. George To Harding and Phoebe Elizabeth Dickerson. B studied, 1879-1882, at Ohio Central College: in 19 became connected with the Daily Star, at Ma O., and later owned and edited the paper, sellin shortly before his death. He served in the State Senate, 1900-1904: Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1904-1906; defeated Governor in 1910; entered the United States Se in 1915; elected United States President in 1990. The Limitation of Armament Conference was b under his invitation, at Washington, beginning Nov. 11, 1921. Harding was tall and leisurely in movement, and a pacifier. He was a Baptist. He was b at Marion, O. His estate, exclusive of his newspaper, was offimul appraised at $486,566. Personal property and tels were appraised at $4,154.83, money $34.8 securities $400,794.91, and real estate at $46.720 Securities listed in the report were three blocks United States gold bonds of $64,000, $30.000 $6,000. United States Liberty bonds, two blocia $42,000 and $40,250: Federal Land Bank bond the value of $10,000; United States Treasury tificates of $92,250, and United States Tre notes, three blocks, $15,000, $52,000 and Su Life insurance carried by the late President total $34,422.41. Mrs. Harding, Florence Kling, was a daughter Amos O. Kling, a Marion, Ohio, hardware merch and later a banker. Her family were Mennon Mrs. Harding's first husband was Henry De Wo by whom she had a son, Marshall Eugene De Wi The couple were separated by a divorce de and the Ohio Court restored her maiden De Wolfe died in Colorado of tuberculosis a having been alded by Harding in establishing self in the newspaper business. De Wolfe's chil were given legacies in the Harding will. Mrs. Harding died at Marion, Nov. 21, 198 Almost all of her estate, estimated at over $500. was left in trust to the De Wolfe children, Jes and George N. The cornerstone of the Harding memorial at Marion, was laid May 30, 1926. Calvin Coolidge, a Republican, was born Plymouth, Vt., son of Col. John Calvin Cool farmer and storekeeper (who died, aged 8. Plymouth, Vt., March 18, 1926), and Victor Moor. His ancestor, John Coolidge, came with wife, Mary, from England and settled at Cambr (then Watertown), in the Puritan Colony of Mis chusetts Bay, in 1630. Calvin Coolidge graduated at Amherst Col 1895; admitted to practice law, 1897, at Northa ton, Mass.; City Councilman, 1899; City Sollar 1900-1901; clerk of the Courts, 1904; member of Lower House of the Massachusetts Legislat 1907-1908; Mayor of Northampton, 1910-1 member of the State Senate, 1912-1915, and Pres of that body, 1914-1915: Lieutenant Gover Massachusetts, 1916-1918: Governor, 1919-192 elected Vice President in 1920, and became Presti on Harding's death, Aug. 2, 1923. Coolidge is a Congregationalist. Mrs. Coolidge is the daughter of Capt. Andivs I. Goodhue and Almira Barret, of Burlington The Captain was a Democrat and was a steam inspector while Grover Cleveland was Preside The President's wife was born at Burlington, grad of Wytheville, Va., widow of Norman Galt, a Wash-ated at the University of Vermont in 1902 ington jeweler. She is one of three sisters, inherited a fortune from her first husband and was mistress of the White House during the last of the first and all of the second Wilson Administration, accompanied him to the Versailles Peace Conference and was his companion in all of his travels In Europe and the United States. She was with him when he was stricken in the West. then taught at the Clarke Institute for the Der Northampton, Mass. They had two child John B. Coolidge, born in 1906, now in Amb College, and Calvin Coolidge jr., born in 14 who died in Washington, July 7, 1924. Coolidge is a brunette, active in social work, skil in cooking and needlework. She is a Congr tionalist. officially designated: the East Room, Red Ro Blue Room, Green Room. State Dining Ro Family Dining Room, and Usher's Lobby. The dimensions of the White House, in 1840, length or frontage, 170 feet; depth or width, 86 The mansion was built of gray sandstone, F was painted white after the fire, hence the "the White House." Architect Hoban had mod the structure after the palace of the Duke of Is ster. The site was selected by President Washington and Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant when they laid out Washington, 1791; architect, James Hoban of Dublin: plans chosen by competition closed July 15, 1792. Cornerstone laid Oct. 13, 1792. First occupants-President and Mrs. John Adams, November, 1800 Burned by British in 1814. Mr Hoban superintended the restoration. First White House appropriation from the U. S. Treasury, April 24, 1800, $15,000, for furniture. The first appropriation for repairs, $15,000, March 3, 1807. Congress appropriated $8,137 for enlarging "the offices west of the President's House," 1819. South portico finished 1823; cost $19,000. East Room finished and fur-ing contains the President's Room, the Cit nished by appropriation made in 1826. North Portico added; cost $24,769.25, 1829. The principal apartments in the White House are The President's Office Building is located at West of the White House. It was built so cupied in 1902, and was enlarged later. The Room, a room for the President's Secretary, graph room, a press room, and rooms for the force. Martin Van Buren. Richard M. Johnson. John Tyler... George M. Dallas. 12 Millard Fillmore. 13 William R. King 14 John C. Breckinridge 15 Hannibal Hamlin 16 Andrew Johnson. 117 Schuyler Colfax. 18 Henry Wilson. Place of Death. 1789 Fed... Quincy, Mass. 1797 Rep... Monticello, Va. 1744 Mass.. 1813 Rep... Washington, D. C. . Kinderhook, N. Y.... 1782 N. Y.. 1833 Dem.. Kinderhook, N. Y. Louisville, Ky. Lexington, Ky. Wiliam A. Wheeler. 21 Thos. A. Hendricks.. Muskingum Co., Ohio. Levi P. Morton. Shoreham, Vt.... Adial E. Stevenson. Christian Co., Ky.... Garrett A. Hobart.. Long Branch, N. J.... Theodore Roosevelt. New York City, N. Y. Chas. W. Fairbanks. Unionville Centre, Ohio James S. Sherman Utica, N. Y... Thos. R. Marshall... No. Manchester, Ind.. Calvin Coolidge... Charles G. Dawes. Plymouth, Vt... GOVERNORS OF THE 1780 Ky... 1837 Dem. Frankfort, Ky. 1786 Ala... 1853 Dem.. Dallas Co., Ala. 1873 Rep... Washington, D. C.... 1819 Ν. Υ.. 1877 Rep... Malone, N. Y... 1830 Ν. Υ.. 1881 Rep... New York City, N. Υ. 1819 Ind... 1885 Dem.. Indianapolis, Ind 1824 Ν. Υ.. 1889 Rep... Rhinebeck, N. Y 1893 Dem.. Chicago, Ill. 1835 Ш. 1844 N. J.. 1897 Rep... Paterson, N. J. 1858 N. Y.. 1901 Rep... Oyster Bay, N. Y 1852 Ind... 1905 Rep... Indianapolis, Ind. 1855 Ν. Υ.. 1909 Rep... Utica, N. Y. 1854 Ind... 1913 Dem.. Washington, D. c... 1872 Mass.. 1921 Rep.. 1865 111...1925 Rep.. STATES AND TERRITORIES. POSTMASTERS OF PRINCIPAL U. S. CITIES, AS OF NOV. 1, 1926. Dayton, Ohio.. L. C. Weimer. Mar. 3, 1923 Denver, Col.. Detroit, Mich.... Fail River, Masa... Frank L. Dodge.. Mar. 22, 1926 Gr. Rapids, Mich. Robert G. Hill Jan. 3, 1924 F.A. Muhlenburg Pa... 1789-1791 And. Stephenson. Va... 1827-1834 Schuyler Colfax.. Ind.. 1863-1869 Henry Clay... Ky. 1815-1820 Linn Boyd. John W. Taylor.. N. Y. 1820-1821 N. P. Banks. Philip P. Barbour Va... 1821-1823 James L. Orr.... Henry Clay... Ку. 1823-1825 Wm. Pennington. John W. Taylor.. N. Y. 1825-1827 Galusha A. Grow Dayton of New Jersey presided over the 4th and 5th Congresses, Macon of North Carolina, the 7th, 8th and 9th; Varnum of Massachusetts, 10th and 11th; Henry Clay of Kentucky, 12th-18th and 18th; Taylor of New York, 16th and 19th; Stephenson of SECRETARIES OF STATE. Mass. 1847-1849 Charles F. Crisp. Ga... 1891-1895 Ga... 1849-1851 Thomas B. Reed. Me. 1895-1899 Ky... 1851-1855 D. B. Henderson. Ia. 1899-1903 Mass. 1856-1857 Joseph G.Cannon III... 1903-1910 S. C.. 1857-1859 Champ Clark Mo. 1911-1919 N. J.. 1860-1861 Fred'k H. Gillett, Mass. 1919-1925 Pa... 1861-1863 Nich. Longworth Ohio. 1925Virginia, 20th-23d: Polk of Tennessee, 24th and 25th: Reed of Maine, 51st, 54th and 55th: Henderson of Iowa, 56th and 57th; Cannon of Illinois, 58th, 59th, 60th and 61st, and Champ Clark of Missouri, 62d, 63d, 64th and 65th. NOTE-John Jay was Secretary for Foreign Affairs under the Confederation, and continued at the request of Washington, until Jefferson's on's arrival, March 21. 1790. pa |