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Guide to the Wilson-McAdoo Collection, ca. 1859-1967
Bernath Mss 18
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Description
The collection is divided into fourtenn series. Series I-IV contain personal papers and records of President Woodrow Wilson's
third and youngest daughter, Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, her husband William Gibbs McAdoo, and their two children Ellen Wilson
McAdoo and Mary Faith McAdoo. Series V-VIII contain personal papers and records of President Woodrow Wilson, his first wife
Ellen Axson Wilson, and their first two children Margaret Woodrow Wilson and Jessie Woodrow Wilson. Series IX-X contain Wilson
family clippings, photographs, and ephemera. Series XII contains the McAdoo family childrens collection. Series XIII contains
Wilson family oversize materials. Series XIV contains audiovisual materials.
Background
Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo (1889-1967). Youngest daughter of Woodrow and Ellen Louise
Axson Wilson, born in Middletown, Connecticut, 5 October 1889. Married to William Gibbs McAdoo,
at the White House, 7 May 1914. Divorced 1934. Well known public speaker and radio commentator.
Author of numerous short stories and two books, The Priceless Gift, a collection of her parents love letters, and The Woodrow
Wilsons, a memoir. Longstanding interest in world peace movements; present at the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco.
Active in the United World Federalists movement. Died in Montecito, California, April 1967.
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