Ellen Axson Wilson
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson , was the first wife of Woodrow Wilson. Also a Southerner from a slaveowning family, she grew up in Rome, Georgia her father was a minister. Before her marriage, she studied at the Art Students League of New York and continued to make art. She and Wilson had three daughters together.
Insisting that her children must not be born as Yankees, Ellen went to stay with relatives in Gainesville, Georgia for Margarets birth in 1886 and Jessies in 1887. But Eleanor was born in Connecticut in 1889, while Wilson was teaching at Wesleyan University.
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