Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (May 15, 1860 – August 6, 1914) was the first lady of the United States from 1913 until her death in 1914, as the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson . Like her husband, she was a Southerner, as well as the daughter of a clergyman. She was born in Savannah, Georgia , but raised in Rome, Georgia . Having an artistic bent, she studied at the Art Students League of New York before her marriage, and continued to produce art in later life.
14-468: Ellen Wilson may refer to: Ellen Axson Wilson (1860–1914), American First Lady Ellen Wilson (judoka) (born 1976), American judoka Ellen Wilson (character) , a character from the American science fiction web television series For All Mankind [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with
28-526: A modern diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy . Bright's disease was historically treated with warm baths, blood-letting , squill , digitalis , mercuric compounds , opium , diuretics , laxatives and dietary therapy , including abstinence from alcoholic drinks , cheese and red meat . Arnold Ehret was diagnosed with Bright's disease and pronounced incurable by 24 of Europe's most respected doctors; he designed The Mucusless Diet Healing System , which apparently cured his illness. William Howard Hay had
42-467: Is a historical classification of kidney diseases that are described in modern medicine as acute or chronic nephritis . It was characterized by swelling and the presence of albumin in the urine , and was frequently accompanied by high blood pressure and heart disease . The symptoms and signs of Bright's disease were first described in 1827 by the English physician Richard Bright , after whom
56-900: The Reverend Joseph R. Wilson , and her grandfather, the Reverend Isaac Stockton Keith Axson. They honeymooned at Waynesville , a mountain resort in western North Carolina. That same year, Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania offered Dr. Wilson a teaching position at an annual salary of $ 1,500. He and his bride lived near the campus, keeping her little brother with them. Together, the Wilsons had three daughters: Insisting that her children must not be born as Yankees , Ellen went to stay with relatives in Gainesville, Georgia for Margaret's birth in 1886 and Jessie's in 1887. But Eleanor
70-558: The cause of improving housing in the national capital's largely black slums. She visited dilapidated alleys and brought them to the attention of debutantes and Congressmen. She died of Bright's disease at the White House on August 6, 1914. She was buried in Rome, Georgia among her family at Myrtle Hill Cemetery . In December 1915, President Woodrow Wilson remarried, to Edith Bolling Galt . Bright%27s disease Bright's disease
84-433: The disease was named. In his Reports of Medical Cases , he described 25 cases of dropsy ( edema ) which he attributed to kidney disease. Symptoms and signs included: inflammation of serous membranes , haemorrhages , apoplexy , convulsions , blindness and coma . Many of these cases were found to have albumin in their urine (detected by the spoon and candle-heat coagulation), and showed striking morbid changes of
98-402: The kidneys at post-mortem . The triad of dropsy, albumin in the urine and kidney disease came to be regarded as characteristic of Bright's disease. Subsequent work by Bright and others indicated an association with cardiac hypertrophy , which Bright attributed to stimulation of the heart. Frederick Akbar Mahomed showed that a rise in blood pressure could precede the appearance of albumin in
112-561: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Wilson&oldid=1234833827 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ellen Axson Wilson During her tenure as First Lady, she arranged White House weddings for two of their daughters. She
126-450: The urine, and the rise in blood pressure and increased resistance to flow was believed to explain the cardiac hypertrophy. It is today known that Bright's disease is caused by a wide and diverse range of kidney diseases; thus, the term Bright's disease is retained for historical application but not in modern diagnosis. The disease was diagnosed frequently in diabetic patients; at least some of these cases would probably correspond to
140-547: The wedding while he did postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University and she nursed her ailing father. Ellen's father committed suicide while hospitalized for depression, after which she went North to study at the Art Students League of New York . Wilson, who was 28 years of age, married Ellen, age 25, on June 24, 1885, at her paternal grandparents' home in Savannah, Georgia. The wedding was performed jointly by his father,
154-566: Was born in Connecticut in 1889, while Wilson was teaching at Wesleyan University . Wilson's career at Princeton University began in 1890, bringing Ellen new social responsibilities. She took refuge from such demands in her art. As First Lady, she drew sketches and painted in a studio set up on the third floor of the White House. She donated much of her work to charity. She arranged the White House weddings of two of her daughters. After Wilson
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#1732858724135168-452: Was elected as president in 1912, the Wilsons preferred to begin the administration without an inaugural ball. The First Lady's entertainments were simple, but her unaffected cordiality made her parties successful. In their first year, she convinced her scrupulous husband that it would be perfectly proper to invite influential legislators to a private dinner. Wilson had grown up in a slave-owning family. As First Lady, she devoted much effort to
182-541: Was submitted to the Paris International Exposition . where it won a bronze medal for excellence. In April 1883, she met Woodrow Wilson when he was visiting his cousin Jesse Woodrow Wilson in Rome, Georgia , on family business. At that time, she was keeping house for her widowed father. Woodrow Wilson thought of Ellen, "What splendid laughing eyes!" They were engaged 5 months later, but postponed
196-621: Was the third First Lady and the most recent to die during her tenancy. Ellen Louise Axson, born in Savannah, Georgia , was the daughter of the Reverend Samuel Edward Axson, a Presbyterian minister , and his wife Margaret Jane (née Hoyt) Axson. Ellen became a woman of refined tastes with a fondness for art, music, and literature. When she was eleven years old, she began studying art at Rome Female College in Rome, Georgia . After her graduation in 1876, Ellen's drawing titled School Scene
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