Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . ted to become the wife of his adju-tant general, Major Bliss, he did not oppose her. It was as the bride of Major Bliss Miss Betty first appeared at theWhite House where she was virtually to preside during her fathers briefincumbency of the office of president, for Mrs. Taylor never appeared inthe reception rooms on public occasions, and relegated to her daughter allthe public duties she could conscientiously thus avoid. She selected forherself
Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . ted to become the wife of his adju-tant general, Major Bliss, he did not oppose her. It was as the bride of Major Bliss Miss Betty first appeared at theWhite House where she was virtually to preside during her fathers briefincumbency of the office of president, for Mrs. Taylor never appeared inthe reception rooms on public occasions, and relegated to her daughter allthe public duties she could conscientiously thus avoid. She selected forherself a suite of rooms in which she lived as much as possible the liteshe would have chosen to live elsewhere, and when, on the sudden deathof her husband, she left the White House she appeared to put all remem-brance of her life there away from her. I util her death the only refer-ence she ever made to her more than a years stay in Washington waswhen she spoke of incidents connected with her husbands death. did not long survive her husband, dying in August, 1852, at theresidence of Colonel Tavlor, her onlv son, near Pascagoula, Till: YOSKMITE. 4l-> PRESIDENTS, SOLDIERS, STATESMEN. ABIGAIL POWERS FILLMORE. Abigail, youngest child of Rev. Lemuel Powers, Baptist clergyman,was born at Stillwater, Saratoga county, Xew York, in March, 1798. InFebruary, 182b, she became the wife of Millard Fillmore, then a poorbut ambitious lawyer of Erie county. They had been three years en-gaged, she giving him her promise while he was still a clothiers appren-tice, eking out his means to obtain a higher education by teaching a vil-lage school in the winter months. Poverty kept them apart, and whenthey were finally married it was to enter on a long and stern strugglewith the same grim antagonist. Mrs. Fillmore had been well educatedand her family connections were such that her marriage appeared to herfriends to have been beneath her, but she more truly apprehended theworth of t
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