Many people know a lot about the Presidents, but not too many get to know the First Ladies. They’re always helping out behind the scenes. However, Anna Harrison didn’t get to do that. On July 25, 1775, a baby girl named Anna Tuthill Symmes was born. She was born near Morristown, New Jersey, on a farm that her family owned. Her mother died when she was still an infant. That left her father to care for Anna himself, so he sent her to live with her grandparents in Suffolk County, in Long Island.(Staff The Famous People) She grew up wearing pretty clothes and using ladylike manners.(Black) Anna started going to Clinton Academy in 1781. She was the first First Lady to have a formal education. Then, she finished up her degree in a boarding school in New York City with the help of Isabella Marshal Graham, her teacher.(Staff The National First Ladies Library) After boarding school Anna went
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They had to marry secretly because Anna’s father disapproved.(Staff Bio.) Her father later learned to admire William.(Staff The National First Ladies Library) Anna and William had ten kids. She taught all of her kids how to read, write and she taught them about their religion.(Staff The National First Ladies Library)
Right before William Henry Harrison became president, Anna gets ill. Their daughter-in-law, Jane Irwin Harrison took over. Anna never stepped foot into the White House. While Jane was there she served as hostess. She never got to do anything else because she only was there for 4 weeks.(Staff The National First Ladies Library) On May 9th, five days after William Henry Harrison became president, the US Supreme Court rules the kidnapped slaves from the Spanish schooner were freed.(Staff On This
They had to marry secretly because Anna’s father disapproved.(Staff Bio.) Her father later learned to admire William.(Staff The National First Ladies Library) Anna and William had ten kids. She taught all of her kids how to read, write and she taught them about their religion.(Staff The National First Ladies Library)
Right before William Henry Harrison became president, Anna gets ill. Their daughter-in-law, Jane Irwin Harrison took over. Anna never stepped foot into the White House. While Jane was there she served as hostess. She never got to do anything else because she only was there for 4 weeks.(Staff The National First Ladies Library) On May 9th, five days after William Henry Harrison became president, the US Supreme Court rules the kidnapped slaves from the Spanish schooner were freed.(Staff On This