Eleanor Wilson McAdoo
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Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo (16 October 1889 – 5 April 1967) was an American author who wrote about her famous father, Woodrow Wilson. She usually went by the nickname Nellie.
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[edit] Life
Born in Middletown, Connecticut, she married Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo at the White House on May 7, 1914. [1] They had a daughter Ellen Wilson McAdoo (1915-1946)[2] and a second daughter, Mary Faith McAdoo (1920-1988). [3] She divorced McAdoo in 1934. [4]
Because she had written a biography about her father, she served as an informal counselor on the 1944 biopic Wilson.[5] In 1965, she became largely incapacitated after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. McAdoo died at her home in Montecito, California at age 77, and was interred at the Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California. [6]
[edit] See also
- Woodrow Wilson, father
- Ellen Axson Wilson, mother
- William Gibbs McAdoo, former husband
- Margaret Wilson, sister
[edit] Bibliography
- The Woodrow Wilsons by Eleanor Wilson McAdoo (McMillan, 1937)
- Julia and the White House "An American girl finds herself in the exciting yet sobering limelight of the White House" (Dodd, Mead, 1946)
[edit] References
- ^ Staff report (May 8, 1914). ELEANOR WILSON WEDS W.G. M'ADOO; President's Youngest Daughter and Secretary of Treasury Married at White House. New York Times
- ^ Staff report (May 22, 1915,). DAUGHTER IS BORN TO MRS. W. G. McADOO; President's Second Grandchild Will be Christened Ellen for the Late Mrs. Wilson.New York Times
- ^ Staff report (July 18, 1934). NEW M'ADOO BABY BORN PRIMARY NIGHT; A Second Daughter for ex-Secretary of the Treasury and the Former Miss Eleanor Wilson. New York Times
- ^ Staff report (July 18, 1934). Eleanor Wilson McAdoo Divorces Senator At Five-Minute Hearing on Incompatibility. New York Times
- ^ Knock, Thomas J. "History with Lightning": The Forgotten Film Wilson. American Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 5 (Winter, 1976), pp. 523-543
- ^ Staff report (April 7, 1967). Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, President's Daughter, 77, Dies; Former Wife of Treasury Chief Remained Dedicated to Her Father's Ideals.
