With war raging in Europe and his beloved wife Ellen dead, Woodrow Wilson was a lonely and unhappy man. But all of that changed one afternoon in 1915, when the doors of the White House elevator opened ...
On this day in 1915, President Woodrow Wilson married Edith Bolling Galt (1872-1961) at a private ceremony at the bride’s spacious Washington home. It was a second marriage for Wilson, whose first ...
The deathbed admonition of Woodrow Wilson's angelic, admiring first wife, Ellen, that her husband, a great man, should not become a lonely great man, paved the way to his remarriage. Enter Edith ...
Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Edwin M Yoder Jr President Woodrow Wilson’s disabling stroke in 1919 offered his ...
Virginia Littell’s defense of her husband, State Senator Robert Littell, seems eerily reminiscent of the way Woodrow Wilson’s wife protected his interests following a massive stroke in 1919. First ...