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  Volume V Appendix E
Hayes by the soldiers of the Twenty-third Regiment, O. I., on the occasion of her silver wedding at the White House, is engraved with a depiction of the log cabin in which Mrs.
Hayes lived for two winters in her husband's camp in Virginia; and with verse inscribed to "Our Mother." The drawing-room opening to the right of the hall is thirty-six feet long and connected by an open archway with a library of the same length, whose shelves originally held the fine historical library of President Hayes.
Hayes with the inscription: Lucy Webb Hayes, 1831-1889.
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 Lucy Webb Hayes - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lucy Ware Webb Hayes (August 28, 1831 - June 25, 1889) was the First Lady of the United States during the presidency of her husband Rutherford B. Hayes and one of the most popular First Ladies of the nineteenth century.
She was a strong supporter of Temperance, and no alcohol was served in the White House during the Hayes administration, prompting the press to dub her "Lemonade Lucy." She also introduced the custom of having children roll Easter eggs on the White House lawn.
Upon her death, flags across the United States were lowered to half-mast in honor of the "most idolized woman in America." Lucy Hayes was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University.
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 Lucy Ware Webb Hayes biography
Webb to sell these slaves after her husband's death, she was adamant in her belief that she would "take in washing" to support her family before selling slaves.
Webb worried that Lucy would be forced into marriage with a new Methodist minister, so in 1847, she enrolled Lucy in one of the few colleges in the U.S. that granted degrees to women, Cincinnati Wesleyan Female College.
Lucy Webb Hayes was the first First Lady to be called "First Lady." Unlike her predecessors, she was extremely popular and well loved by the American people.
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 Lucy Webb Hayes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lucy Webb Hayes (1831-1889) was the wife of Rutherford B. Hayes, who served as president of the United States from 1877 to 1881.
Hayes was a strong supporter of the Union cause, partly because of its opposition to slavery.
Lucy Hayes was sympathetic to this cause, and her husband was concerned about the problem of alcoholism.
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 John Joseph Cook Collection at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Both Lucy and her mother, Maria Cook Webb, are mentioned frequently in correspondence between Lucy's aunts and uncles.
Fanny Hayes [1857-1950], daughter of Rutherford B. Hayes and Lucy Ware Webb.
Hayes as a niece, and lived as one of the family until the time of her marriage." Fourteen letters [1867-1893], primarily addressed to her father, John Joseph Cook and to her half sisters, Maria and Marthesia Cook.
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Lucy Webb came by the grace she was known for honestly.
Webb moved her family to the town of Delaware and enrolled her sons in the new Ohio Wesleyan University.
Lucy became accustomed to her White House routine with confidence gained from her long and happy married life, her knowledge of political circles, her intelligence and her cheerful spirit.
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 Rutherford B. Hayes Biography - Abridged Presidential Biographies : Article from CultureMonster.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Married to Lucy Ware Webb Hayes -- Beneficiary of the most fiercely disputed election in American history, Rutherford B. Hayes brought to the Executive Mansion dignity, honesty, and moderate reform.
Hayes hoped such conciliatory policies would lead to the building of a "new Republican party" in the South, to which white businessmen and conservatives would rally.
Hayes had announced in advance that he would serve only one term, and retired to Spiegel Grove, his home in Fremont, Ohio, in 1881.
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 Rutherford B. Hayes - dKosopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born in Ohio in 1822, Hayes was educated at Kenyon College and Harvard Law School.
Hayes advocated for the withdrawal of Federal troops overseeing the Reconstruction in the South hoping to build a "new Republican party" in the South composed of white businessmen and conservatives.
Hayes was married to Lucy Ware Webb Hayes a leading voice in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and notably barred wines and liquor from the White House.
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Though Lucy Hayes was the first first lady to have a college education, journalists chose not to focus on this aspect of her background.
Lucy sang and played the guitar, and was assisted by the talents of friends and family.
Lucy was fond of animals, so much so that a cat, a bird, two dogs, and a goat joined the Hayes family in residence at the White House.
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 Lucy Hayes was first to be called 'first lady'
On Aug. 28, 1831, Lucy Ware Webb Hayes - who would be the first wife of a U.S. president to get a college degree and so popular she became the first to be called "first lady" - was born in Chillicothe.
Lucy also took classes at Ohio Wesleyan, but she received her degree from the Wesleyan Female College in Cincinnati when she was 18.
Lucy Hayes regularly visited camp, where she cared for the wounded and comforted the dying.
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 First Ladies' Biographical Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hayes later visited Lucy in college when he was starting his law practice in Cincinnati.
Hayes was a great believer in education and allowed the staff to take time off to pursue their studies.
Lucy’s influence was strong, as her husband acknowledged, but it was strictly behind the scenes.
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 The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1852, Rutherford married Lucy Ware Webb of Chillicothe.
Hayes was the first president to travel to the West Coast during his term as president.
Hayes was the first president to have a typewriter in the White House.
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 MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Lucy Ware Webb Hayes
MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Lucy Ware Webb Hayes
In 1852 Rutherford B. Hayes married Lucy Ware Webb, his childhood friend.
A graduate of Wesleyan Female College, Webb was the first president’s wife to have a college degree.
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 Lucy Webb Hayes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Lucy Hayes, First Lady of the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lucy was born in Chillicothe, Ohio and her father died when she was two.
Hayes was elected to Congress while still in the army even though he had not campaigned, but he was a soldier and had no plans to leave the army.
Hayes was nominated by the Republicans in 1876 and a special Congressional committee, after weeks of procrastination, declared him the winner by one electoral vote although he had lost the popular vote by nearly 300,000.
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 Rutherford Hayes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hayes was 19th president and one of two presidents to lose in the popular election, but still become president through a narrow victory in the electoral college.
Hayes thus was the beneficiary of the most fiercely disputed election in American history, but brought to the Executive Mansion dignity, honesty, and moderate reform.
Hayes alerted her husband to the disappointment of the children, and ordered that the White House gates be opened so the children could use the expansive South Lawn.
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 The Presidents of the United States - Rutherford B. Hayes
Hayes insisted that his appointments must be made on merit, not political considerations.
Hayes pledged protection of the rights of Negroes in the South, but at the same time advocated the restoration of "wise, honest, and peaceful local self-government." This meant the withdrawal of troops.
Hayes and his Republican successors were persistent in their efforts but could not win over the "solid South."
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 Internet Public Library: POTUS
Married: Lucy Ware Webb (1831-1889), on December 30, 1852
Hayes was known as "Lemonade Lucy" because she refused to serve alcohol in the White House.
Lucy Hayes was the first First Lady to have graduated from college.
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 Lucy Ware Webb Hayes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Public fears had not subsided when it was settled in Hayes' favor; and when Lucy watched her husband take his oath of office at the Capitol, her serene and beautiful face impressed even cynical journalists.
Webb took her sons to the town of Delaware to enroll in the new Ohio Wesleyan University, but she began studying with its excellent instructors.
Though she was a temperance advocate and liquor was banned at the mansion during this administration, she was a very popular hostess.
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A close couple, Lucy accompanied her husband to the front while he served in the Civil War and on official visits during his political career as governor of Ohio and president of the United States.
Lucy Webb Hayes, born on August 28, 1831 in Chillicothe, Ohio, is noteworthy as the first wife of a president to be called "First Lady" and the first to have graduated from college.
Lucy Hayes suffered a fatal stroke and died on June 25, 1889.
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 Hayes, Lucy --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. née Lucy Ware Webb American first lady (1877–81), the wife of Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States, and the first presidential wife to graduate from college.
Lucy Webb was the daughter of James Webb, a physician and ardent abolitionist, and Maria Cook Webb, who raised Lucy and her two older brothers by herself after her husband's death…
Hayes had said before his election that he would not be a candidate for a second term.
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In the basement museum also are a large elk-horn chair, pre- sented by Seth Kinman, California hunter and trapper, to Gov- ernor Hayes, during the presidential campaign of 1876, and a revolving chair made from Texas steer-horns; also a huge bear trap, presented to Mr.
When the family moved to Delaware, Ohio, from West Dummerston, Vermont, in 1817, the clock, because of its length, would not permit the tailboard of the wagon to be in place for the long journey across the Allegheny Mountains.
Be- fore the tragedy of the delivery of the wives, Colonel Hayes in- dicated his preference for the lantaka on the state barge, near which he was standing, in lieu of the ten wives, to the surprise and apparent disgust of the Sultan.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Karrie Webb
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Karrie Webb
Webb, Karrie, born in 1974, Australian golfer, who recorded one of the most impressive rookie seasons in golf history in 1996 and emerged as a...
When rival Karrie Webb of Australia won the player of the year award in 1999 and 2000, Sörenstam increased the intensity of her training regimen.
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 Lucy Webb Hayes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Upon her death, flags across the United States were lowered to half-mast in honor of the "most idolized woman in America." Lucy Hayes was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University, as the first American First Lady to graduate out of college.
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While still at war, he was elected to the Ohio Congress but did not take his seat until peace was declared.
Presidency: The election was so close that an electoral commission met to decide the outcome (185 to 184 electoral votes for Hayes.) He became president at a time when Americans were losing faith in government after years of political scandals and economic problems.
Hayes had as little political authority as Mr.
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 First Lady EMILY TENNESSEE DONELSON (Andrew Jackson)
When Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife, Lucy, left Ohio for Washington, the outcome of the election was still in doubt.
They remembered her visits to camp to administer to the wounded, to cheer the homesick, and to comfort the dying.
She was a temperance advocate and liquor was banned at the mansion during the Hayes' administration, thus she was nicknamed "Lemonade Lucy." This, however, did not interfere with her popularity.
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Educator, religious leader who helped found the parochial school system in U.S. Aug. 28, 1831, Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, often recognized as the first American woman to hold a college degree (Wesleyan Female College of Cincinnati).
B. Aug. 28, 1882, Belle Jennings Benchley, appointed executive secretary of the Zoological Garden of San Diego and was instrumental in developing it into a world renowned institution.
Eventually became bookkeeper in the Zoological Garden of San Diego, appointed head of the zoo staff (1927) and the executive director with a world-wide reputation.
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 Genealogy of the Presidents of the USA Lucy Ware Webb Produced by Hans A.M. Weebers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Genealogy of the Presidents of the USA Lucy Ware Webb Produced by Hans A.M. Weebers
Lucy married 19th President Rutherford Birchard Hayes, son of Rutherford Hayes and Sophia Birchard, on 30 Dec 1852 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
(19th President Rutherford Birchard Hayes was born on 4 Oct 1822 in Delaware, Ohio, died on 17 Jan 1893 in Fremont, Ohio and was buried in Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio.)
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