A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . with AnnaLester (older sister of Edith) andFlorence Young. The girls were boundfor the Art Students League, to studyart and kindergarten work. Mr. Wil-son may have been teaching at BrynMawr then, and again he maynt, buthe got on the train at Philadelphiaand soon joined the young ladies andescorted them to the big city of theEast. The three boarded at an es-tablishment similar to the Y. W. C. the present time. Alas! as long asthey were here t
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . with AnnaLester (older sister of Edith) andFlorence Young. The girls were boundfor the Art Students League, to studyart and kindergarten work. Mr. Wil-son may have been teaching at BrynMawr then, and again he maynt, buthe got on the train at Philadelphiaand soon joined the young ladies andescorted them to the big city of theEast. The three boarded at an es-tablishment similar to the Y. W. C. the present time. Alas! as long asthey were here they were supposed tobe hard at work and not to receive theirgentlemen friends. This rule did notcomport with the desires of Miss Axsonor Mr. Wilson, so she found more con-genial surroundings. She was un-usually talented with the brush, andtheir homes wherever they lived inlater years contained numerous evi-dences of her handiwork. On June24, 1885, they were married at Sa-vannah, at the home of the bridesgrandparents, with whom she was thenresiding. On visits of Mrs. Wilson toGainesville two of her daughters were Anecdotes and Reminiscences 293. RECALLING WOODROW WILSONS COURTSHIP. At top, left, Mrs. J. W. Bones, Mr. Wilsons aunt; Miss Marion M. Bones, his cousin;Mrs. S. E. Axson, mother of Ellen Lou Axson; Minnie Lester, the first wife of A. ThewH. Brower, at whose home Mr. Wilson met Miss Axson. Next, the West and McDonaldhomes, built by the Axsons; the Brower and Bones homes; in oval, Axson home in 1882,and Silver Creek, on which a picnic brought the young couple together. 294 A History of iRome and Floyd County born; there she was the guest of heraunt, Mrs. Louisa C. Hoyt-Brown,mother of Col. Edward T. Brown, ofAtlanta and Washington, D. C. Mostof the time they lived in the 1890 to 1910 they were residentsof Princeton, N. J., the last eight yearsof which Mr. Wilson was president ofPrinceton University. Then he waschosen governor of New Jersey, andin 1912 became tw
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