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Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo

  • 1889, Oct. 16: Born, Middletown, Conn.
  • 1914: Married William Gibbs McAdoo (divorced 1934)
  • 1937: Published, The Woodrow Wilsons. New York: Macmillan Co.
  • 1946: Published, Julia and the White House. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
  • 1962: Published, The Priceless Gift: The Love Letters of Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Axson Wilson. New York: McGraw-Hill
  • 1967, Apr. 6: Died, Santa Barbara, Calif.

Margaret Woodrow Wilson

  • 1886, Apr. 16: Born, Gainesville, Ga.
  • 1903 - 1905 : Student, Goucher College, Baltimore, Md.
  • 1905 - 1906 : Studied voice and piano, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, Md.
  • 1915: Professional debut, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Central New York Music Festival, Syracuse, N.Y.
  • 1917: Concert tour for American Red Cross, midwestern and southern United States
  • 1918 - 1919 : Sang in Allied army camps in France, Belgium, and England
  • 1928: Entered advertising business
  • 1930: Consultant and writer, Blow Agency, New York, N.Y.
  • 1938: Moved to Pondicherry, India, to follow the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, a Hindu mystic
  • 1944, Feb. 14: Died, Pondicherry, India

From the guide to the Wilson-McAdoo Families Papers, 1860-1966, (bulk 1912-1943), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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