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Gladys Quander Tancil is a prominent figure in the history of Mount Vernon’s public history and educational programming. Learn More Growth of Mount Vernon George Washington added more than 5,000 acres to his estate, starting with his first purchase in 1757. By his death, Mount Vernon was about 7,600 acres or almost exactly twelve square miles.
Elwyn Brooks White was born on July 11, 1899, in Mount Vernon, New York, the son of a piano manufacturer, Samuel Tilly White, and Jessie Hart. The family was comfortably well off, but not wealthy. Raised with two brothers and three sisters, White attended local public schools in Mount Vernon. He went on to attend Cornell University, graduating ...
The woman who would later be known as Martha Washington was born Martha Dandridge on June 2, 1731 at Chestnut Grove Plantation in New Kent County, Virginia. She was the eldest of eight children born to John Dandridge (1700-1756) and Frances Jones (1710-1785). She was named Martha after one of her cousins. Her father, John Dandridge was the son ...
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731 O.S. – May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, she served as the inaugural first lady of the United States, defining the role of the president's wife and setting many precedents that ...
Biography Early life. Edward Cragg was born at Mount Vernon, New York, on September 8, 1919. He spent his youth in the Greenwich / Cos Cob area of Connecticut, graduating from Greenwich High School in the class of 1936. In September 1937, he enrolled in the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance at New York University, New York.
Martha Washington on her husband's illness, 1790. 1790. A Portrait by Edward Savage for John Adams. Vacation at Mount Vernon. 1790, November 27. Moving into the Presidential Mansion in Philadelphia. Charles Willson Peale's Lost Portrait of the First Lady. Visiting Trenton. 1793, January 11.
Benedict Arnold was born in 1741 to a prominent Connecticut family. Arnold lost most of his siblings to yellow fever, calamitous events that triggered alcoholism in his father. As a teenager, Arnold's family faced financial hardship. At the age of sixteen, Arnold enlisted in a militia and served in the French and Indian War in upstate New York.
