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Ellen Axson Wilson. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 1910. Courtesy: Library of Congress. The future 28th first lady was born in Savannah, Georgia, on May 15, 1860, and lived most of her childhood in Rome ...
Gravesite: Ellen Louise Axson Wilson. Fascinating details. She took great effort to improve the housing conditions in Washington D.C. for African Americans, resulting in legislation about housing standards in Washington (signed into law on 09/25/1914; 38 Stat 716 ). Some other causes supported by Ellen Wilson were adult education and mental health.
Born Ellen Louise Axson in Savannah, Georgia, the daughter of the Reverend Samuel Edward Axson, a Presbyterian minister, and Margaret Jane (née Hoyt) Axson, Ellen was a lady of refined tastes with a fondness for art, music and literature. Thomas Woodrow Wilson first saw her when he was about three and she was only a baby. In April 1883, Woodrow visited his cousin Jesse Woodrow Wilson in Rome ...
May 15, 2024 · While her fiancé Woodrow Wilson finished school, Ellen Axson studied at the Art Students League in New York. Later, she developed her management skills helping Woodrow head Princeton University, govern New Jersey, and run for president.
The President Woodrow Wilson House exhibited The Art of Ellen Axson Wilson- American Impressionist in 2011. The exhibition then traveled across the country for five years before returning to the Wilson House. When on view in Rome, Georgia (Ellen's birthplace and where she is buried), the Rome Area Council for the Arts put together a wonderful ...
Shortly after, Ellen Wilson became ill with Bright's Disease and died August 6th, 1914. After the funeral in the East Room, Margaret Wilson became White House hostess. From left to right: Ellen Louise Axson Wilson and her three daughters, Jessie, Margaret, and Nell on the south portico of the White House.
Ellen Wilson was 52 years old when she became first lady upon the inauguration of her husband, Woodrow Wilson, in 1913. Unfortunately, during the second year of Wilson’s first term, Ellen contracted the incurable kidney disorder known as Bright’s Disease. The Wilson’s oldest daughter, Margaret Woodrow Wilson, assumed the responsibilities ...
