Abigail Fillmore and the White House Library
Abigail Fillmore is one of those early First Ladies who has faded into oblivion. She needs to be re-explored.
Miss Powers, Teacher
Abigail Powers (1798-1852) was only two when her father died. She later claimed to have inherited two important things from the father she never knew: his love of reading, and his vast (for upstate New York in 1800) library.
One of the rare etchings of Abigail Powers Fillmore, wife of the 13th President.
By the time she was sixteen, s...
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