Publisher:
Children's Press [a Division of Grolier Publishing]
Published:
1998
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
13485709517
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Very good + This is one of the volumes in the Encyclopedia of First Ladies. 111, [1] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Timeline. Fast facts. For Further Reading. Index. Susan Sinnott is a published author of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Susan Sinnott include Extraordinary Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Charley Waters Goes to Gettysburg. Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland Preston (July 21, 1864-October 29, 1947) was married to the President of the United States Grover Cleveland and was the First Lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897. Becoming First Lady at age 21, she remains the youngest wife of a sitting president. After her husband's death in 1908, Cleveland remained in Princeton, New Jersey. On February 10, 1913, at the age of 48, she married Thomas J. Preston, Jr., a professor of archaeology at her alma mater, Wells College. She was the first presidential widow to remarry. She was vacationing at St. Moritz, Switzerland, with her daughters Marion and Esther and her son Francis when World War I erupted in August 1914. They returned to the United States via Genoa on October 1, 1914. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, she led the Needlework Guild of America in its clothing drive for the poor.
