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Parent (s) Joshua Johnson (father) Catherine Nuth (mother) Signature. Louisa Catherine Adams ( née Johnson; February 12, 1775 – May 15, 1852) was the first lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829 during the presidency of John Quincy Adams, her husband. She was born in England and raised in France.
May 11, 2024 · In 1783 her family, now including six children, returned to London, and Louisa, the second child, enrolled briefly in boarding school. After her father’s business suffered losses, Louisa and her sisters were forced to withdraw from school, thus ending their formal education.
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Feb 13, 2017 · He served in the U.S. Senate from 1803 to 1808, pursuing the independent course that was to be his hallmark. Meanwhile, Louisa had two more sons, John in 1803 and Charles in 1807, and she enjoyed spending long periods of time in Washington, D.C., near her relatives.
Feb 12, 2021 · Louisa’s health in this period was precarious. She experienced several miscarriages before the birth of the couple’s first child, a son named George Washington Adams, in April 1801. “I was a Mother —God had heard my prayer,” Louisa recalled in her autobiography years later.
Dec 16, 2009 · The second child of Catherine Nuth, an Englishwoman, and Joshua Johnson, an American merchant, Louisa Catherine Johnson was born in England and spent part of her childhood in France. She was well...
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At this point, Louisa had outlived three of her children (a daughter, also named Louisa Catherine, died at age 15 months in St. Petersburg), and for the remainder of her life she blamed herself for leaving her young children behind in America while she and John Quincy went abroad for diplomatic service.
She left her two older sons, George and John, in Massachusetts for their education in 1809 and took two-year-old Charles Francis to Russia, where Adams served as minister. Despite the glamour of the tsar’s court, she struggled with cold winters, strange customs, limited funds, and poor health; an infant daughter born in 1811 died the next year.
