This memoir has been reproduced in its entirety from a hand-written account of the speech which is preserved by the JCHA. Mrs. Donaldson (obituary link) was 81 at the time she gave the speech in…continue reading
Joseph Ruggles Wilson, the father of the 28th President was born in Steubenville, Ohio and it was here that he met his future wife, Janet Jesse Woodrow, in 1846. Janet was a student at the…continue reading