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Painter, b. 1860 - d. 1914

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      • Ellen Louise Axson Wilson
        Sep. 20, 2024

        Ellen Louise Axson Wilson

        Est: $400 - $600

        Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (Georgia/Washington, DC, 1860-1914) ROCKY COASTLINE oil on canvas, unframed, signed H12" W16" Provenance: Private collection Other Notes: Ellen Axson Wilson, Savannah Georgia born. First wife of President Woodrow Wilson, She served as First Lady of the United States from March 4, 1913 until her death 18 month later.

        Charlton Hall
      • WILSON, ELLEN AXSON. 1860-1914.
        Aug. 20, 2022

        WILSON, ELLEN AXSON. 1860-1914.

        Est: $300 - $500

        A group of three items relating to Woodrow Wilson and his family: 1. WILSON, ELLEN AXSON. One-sheet ALS from Woodrow Wilson's first wife, to Edward M. Chapman, on New Jersey Governor's Cottage letterhead, August 13, 1912. She thanks Chapman for his letter and sermon, that they made her homesick for Lyme. She expresses how appreciated his supportive letters to Wilson are, and mentions "forces engaged against him." 6 1/2in. x 9 7/16in.; folded in half. Condition: Good; a center quarter fold. 2. A formal printed invitation to the marriage of Jessie Woodrow to Francis Bowes Sayre, November 25, 1913, Washington, D.C., on a card with presidential eagle blindstamp. 11 1/2in. x 6 5/8in.; folded in half. Condition: Good; a quarter fold in the center; light spotting. 3. CHAPMAN, EDWARD. M. A two-sheet typed copy of a letter sent to Woodrow Wilson; from Murray Hill Hotel, November 14, 1912. Chapman tells an anecdote about Jessie Wilson fishing with him and Vreeland, and that she almost beat them both, but that he "threatened that if she didn't stop I would vote... the straight Republican ticket... Like a dutiful daughter she let us catch up." He also writes of the support for Wilson in Lyme. 11in. x 8 1/2in. Condition: Two vertical folds and one central horizontal fold; hole punches and edge tears; toning and light spotting. PLEASE NOTE: 20TH CENTURY DOCUMENTS CAN HAVE VARIED TONING FROM AGE; IMAGES MAY APPEAR LIGHTER ON DIFFERENT SCREENS. EDWARD MORTIMER CHAPMAN (1862-1952) was a Connecticut pastor, academic, and author. He graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1890. Chapman was a descendant of Robert Chapman, one of the first settlers of Saybrook, Connecticut (c. 1635), and he was a chronicler of his family and the area€™s history. He served as pastor of Old Lyme Church from 1906 to 1915. Chapman had a personal acquaintance with Woodrow Wilson, both before and during his U.S. presidency, through the church and time spent in Lyme, Connecticut. This lot and the other Chapman-related documents offered in this sale were part of a collection of his family papers.

        Turner Auctions + Appraisals
      • Woodrow Wilson letter in the hand of his first wife & future first lady Ellen Axson re: the Wilson and Woodrow genealogy
        Jun. 15, 2016

        Woodrow Wilson letter in the hand of his first wife & future first lady Ellen Axson re: the Wilson and Woodrow genealogy

        Est: $1,800 - $2,500

        A Detailed Letter Discussing Wilson and Woodrow Family Genealogy and His Scotch-Irish Ancestry********* WILSON, WOODROW. (1856-1924). Twenty-eighth president of the United States. LS. (“Woodrow Wilson”). 4pp. 8vo. Princeton, November 12, 1896. To Miss Woodrow. Written in the hand of Wilson’s first wife and future First Lady ELLEN AXSON WILSON(1860-1914). ********* “Your interesting letter of Nov. 14th reached me in due course of mail, and I take pleasure in returning such answer to it as I can. I have always understood that on the Woodrow side I was descended from the family of the Rev. Robert Woodrow, the author of “The Sufferings of the Church of Scotland,” and in direct line from the James Woodrow, who in 1688 became the first professor of moral philosophy in the University of Glasgow. My grandfather, the Rev. Thomas Woodrow, was for sixteen years pastor of a congregational church in Carlisle, England, and did not come to this country until 1836. He settled first in Canada, but after a brief residence there removed to Chillicothe, O[H], where he spent the greater part of the rest of his life. My mother, Jessie Woodrow (not Marion) was born in Carlisle. Marion Woodrow, her youngest sister, and the youngest of the family, was also born in Carlisle. I know of no relatives named Woodrow in this country except those directly descended from Rev. Thomas Woodrow. On the Wilson side the American history of my family is almost equally short. My grandfather, Judge James Wilson of Steubenville, Ohio, came to this country in his youth from the north of Ireland and married a Miss Adams of Philadelphia, whose parents also were recently from the north of Ireland. You will see, therefore, that my ancestry on this side of the water does not run back so far as the Revolution. I have understood, in a general way, that I was in some way connected with the family of Woodrows in West Va., and that all the Woodrows in this country were of the same stock, and that the family was of Highland origin and of the ‘Clan Campbell;’ but what I have told you is all I accurately know. With much regard, Most sincerely yours…”********* Wilson’s paternal grandfather James Wilson (1787-1850) published an anti-slavery newspaper, The Western Herald and Gazette, after emigrating from County Tyrone and settling in Steubenville with his wife Mary Anne (née Adams, 1791-1863), also an Irish immigrant. Wilson’s parents Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Jessie Janet Woodrow (1826-1888) moved from Ohio to Virginia in 1851, becoming slave owners who supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. The future president was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1856. Joseph was a Confederate Army chaplain and a founder of the Southern Presbyterian Church in the United States after an 1861 schism from the northern church body. The family lived in Augusta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina, where Joseph was a professor of rhetoric and theology at Columbia Theological Seminary. “Although the South festered in poverty following the Confederate defeat, and ministers did not earn large salaries, Wilson’s family enjoyed prestige and comforts. Nor did his family come from the common run of preachers. After Episcopalians, Presbyterians stood higher socially than any other denomination in the South, and Wilson’s relatives moved near the top of their church’s hierarchy,” (The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, Cooper). ********* “Thanks to his forebears, Wilson was born with social and intellectual distinctions. Status also devolved upon the boy from his mother’s side,” (ibid.). Wilson’s maternal grandparents, Reverend Thomas Woodrow (1793-1877) of Paisley and his wife Marion (née Williamson) Woodrow of Glasgow settled in Ohio. Our letter notes that other maternal ancestors included Reverend Robert Woodrow (1679-1734), author of The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution published in 1721 and 1722, and his father Reverend James Woodrow (?-?), professor of Divinity in the University of Glasgow beginning in 1692. “The greatest influence of [Woodrow Wilson’s] early years was not war or politics but religion. [He] was the son, grandson, and nephew of Presbyterian ministers. Nearly everyone who has written about him has commented on how the pulpit and the manse left unmistakable marks on the style, direction, and content of his political career,” (ibid.). ********* In 1896, the year of our letter, Wilson published his biography of George Washington while a professor at Princeton University. Wilson became the college’s president in 1902. In 1910, he entered politics and was elected governor of New Jersey, and, just three years later, he reached the White House, the first southerner since Lincoln to do so. Wilson was one of the most educated U.S. presidents in history, having attended law school and earning a PhD in history and political science from Johns Hopkins University. ********* Written on a folded sheet which has been folded into thirds. In fine condition.

        Lion Heart Autographs
      • ELLEN WILSON - MAPLES IMPRESSIONIST PAINTING
        Mar. 14, 2014

        ELLEN WILSON - MAPLES IMPRESSIONIST PAINTING

        Est: $600 - $800

        Ellen Louise Axson Wilson 1860-1914 American - Impressionist woodland trees oil painting entitled " Maples ". H 10.50" x L 8.50" . 15" x 13" framed. Ellen Axson Wilson, first wife of Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1913 until her death the following year. Born Ellen Louise Axson in Savannah, Georgia, the descendant of slave owners and daughter of the Reverend Samuel Edward Axson, a Presbyterian minister, and Margaret Jane (née Hoyt) Axson, Ellen became a lady of refined tastes with a fondness for art, music and literature. She was 5?3? tall, with dark reddish brown hair, piled high in a pompadour style, away from her face, and brown eyes. She had soft, feminine features and a good figure. Her parents believed in education for girls as well as boys. Tutored at home by her mother, Ellen then attended the local female college and after her graduation in 1876, she continued to study with subjects including French and German. She also pursued her great love of art, showing marked skill in both landscape and portraits. Ellen spent time studying art in New York City, which gave her a more expanded view of life.

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