Helen Herron Taft

Joe Keller has been working hard all his life, working years after years to provide a roof over his family. "Nothin' is bigger" than family to Joe, this is his state of mind. In honest truth, Joe really cares about his business and how much money he makes. With the Great Depression fresh in his memory and personal poverty even older than that, economic security is his greatest concern. Although it is true he caused the death of his son, he is a caring person and he worked hard to provide for his…

Peak known today as Mount St. Helens. Originally named “Louwala-Clough,” or “Smoking Mountain,” by the Native American Indians in the region. Many legends were handed down explaining accounts about eruptions the Indians witnessed about Mount St. Helens. According to the lore of these Native American tribes, a huge landslide formed a natural bridge named Tamanawas that spanned the Columbia River. In the center of this arch lived a…

was plagued by disease and the trees were consequently burned; a replacement shipment - this time with 3,020 trees - arrived to the city in March 26, 1912. That same month, the first two trees were planted in West Potomac Park by First Lady Helen Herron Taft and Viscountess Chinda, the wife of the Japanese…

U.S. History William Howard Taft was overweight, but he made a great president. To be exact he was our 27th President of the United States, and the 10th Chief Justice of the United States. Taft was born on September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father Alphonso Taft was Republican, who also served as Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant. His mother was a graduate of Mount Holyoke, Louisa Torrey. He was brought up in the Unitarian church, and would remain a faithful Unitarian…

ladies such as Lucy Hayes and Lucretia Garfield. Unfortunately, either the time’s restriction on women’s involvement in politics or simply illness limited many of these first ladies. By the turn of the century, however, Edith Roosevelt and then Helen Taft functioned as incredibly active first ladies, breaking previous restrictions on the role of first lady in their own respective social and political fields. Looking carefully at these two first ladies, the public can see where the dichotomy…