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Abigail Powers Fillmore
Abigail Powers was born on March 13, 1798 in Stillwater, New York.
Her father was a Baptist minister. He died soon after Abigail was born. He left little money for the family. However, he did leave a lot of books which her mother used to educate her children.
Abigail took a job as a teacher when she was sixteen. She was the first First Lady the 20th to work outside of her home.
She married Millard Fillmore in February, 1826.
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Fillmore was Vice President to Zachary Taylor and became President when Taylor died in office.
Abigail discovered there wasn't a library in the White House. She asked her husband to request money from the congress to establish a White House library. She got the money and selected the books for the library.
While attending Franklin Pierce's inauguration she caught a cold. The cold turned into pneumonia and she died soon after that. (Note: Inaugurations were held on March 4th at that time.)
She died in Washington D.C. on March 30, 1855. She was 55. She was buried in Buffalo, New York.
Sources of Information:
Books:
Barden, Cindy,Meet the First Ladies, Lorenz Corp.
Gormley, Beatrice,First Ladies: Women Who Called The White House Home (First Ladies) , Scholastic Paperbacks, 1997
Smith, Carter, Editor,Smithsonian Presidents and First Ladies DK Publishing, New York, 2002
Web Sites:
The White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/
Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/odmdhtml/