NameEleanor Randolph Wilson
Birth5 Oct 1889, Middletown, CT
Death5 Apr 1967, Montecito, CA
FatherThomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
MotherEllen Louise Axson (1860-1914)
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OBITUARY: From the clipping files of the Jefferson County Historical Society, Steubenville, Ohio. The newspaper is unidentified, but appears to be the local Steubenville paper, and the date April 7, 1967 is written in.
Mrs. McAdoo Succumbs in California: President Wilson's Last Daughter Dies. MONTECITO, Calif. (AP)--President Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor suggested that he name William Gibbs McAdoo as secretary of the Treasury "because he was so attractive." "Father had already decided to appoint him for reasons of ability," she recalled later, after becoming Mrs. McAdoo. "But it remained a family joke that I had influenced his choice." Mrs. McAdoo died Wednesday at her home here. She was 77, the last survivor of Wilson's three daughters. Services Set Saturday. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Montecito Covenant Church, with interment at Santa Barbara Cemetery. Mrs. McAdoo, who chronicled her father's public and private life in a number of books and short stories, had been active in California Democratic party affairs until 1965. She had been confined to bed for the last 18 months from the infirmities of old age. Her book, "The Woodrow Wilsons" was made into a movie. Her last literary work was "The Priceless Gift," a collection of letters from her father to his first wife. Drew World Attention. In 1916, her marriage to McAdoo, drew world attention. The wedding was held in the White House, where a family friend recalled "there were rooms and rooms of gifts. It was all a mad rush, but she enjoyed it immensely." The couple was divorced 20 years later when McAdoo was elected U.S. senator from California and Mrs. McAdoo had to remain in California for health reasons. One of her two daughters, Ellen, was twice married and died in 1946. The second, Mary Faith Haddad of Santa Barbara, survives. Mrs. McAdoo was the second of Wilson's three daughters by his first wife, the former Ellen Louis Axson, who died in the White House during Wilson's first term in 1914. Wilson later married the former Edith Galt, but the couple had no children. She died in Washington in 1961. The eldest daughter, Margaret, died in 1914. The youngest daughter, Jessie, died in 1933.
Spouses
Birth31 Oct 1863, Marietta, GA
Death1 Feb 1941, Washington, D.C.
Marriage7 May 1914, The White House, Washington, D.C.
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