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Sep 27, 1999 · John Coolidge, son of Calvin Coolidge, reflected on his father’s term as President. He also talked about his favorite memories of his parents and their life in the White House . Report Video Issue
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Nov 24, 2021 · John Coolidge charted a humbler course for his career in railroading. As a 22-year-old son of the sitting President, Amherst graduate, and engaged to the governor of Connecticut’s daughter, John could have had any job or never worked at all. His upbringing instead demanded that he “get along without being pushed, without being the boss ...
John Calvin Coolidge (he rapidly let go of "John") was born on the Fourth of July in 1872 to an old New England family. His father John Calvin Coolidge farmed in Windsor County, Vermont. The young Calvin lost his mother Victoria Josephine Moore to what may have been tuberculosis when he was twelve; when he was seventeen, his younger sister and ...
Born in Plymouth, Vermont, on July 4, 1872, Coolidge was the son of a village storekeeper. He was graduated from Amherst College with honors, and entered law and politics in Northampton ...
Apr 2, 2014 · John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was born in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, on July 4, 1872. His father, John Coolidge, was a successful farmer and small businessman who served in the Vermont House of ...
Calvin Coolidge Memorial Bridge, linking Northampton, MA and Hadley, MA is dedicated. US Senator David I. Walsh gives the principal address and Governor Leverett Saltonstall is the ranking Commonwealth official. 1956: June 16: Mr. and Mrs. John Coolidge give Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth, Vermont, to State of Vermont as a state shrine.
He was born John Calvin Coolidge on July 4, 1872, in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. He grew up helping his storekeeper father tend accounts, selling apples, and doing other chores around the store and at home on the family farm. As a boy, Coolidge had little ambition in life beyond hoping to follow his father as a good, honest small-town merchant.
