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her children. While some of the children struggled with their studies, by four years of age, Coolidge was deemed "wonderfully apt" by her mother. In
November 1802, during Jefferson's first term as president, she traveled with her brother Jeff and her mother to Washington, D.C. for a six-week visit at the President's House (now called the
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Jefferson's personal papers, passed down to the Coolidge family, were donated to the Massachusetts Historical Society. Among the collection of 9,000 manuscripts given to the society was a "much edited" draft of a letter from Jefferson to Coolidge on August 27, 1825. He expressed how much she
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October 1796, Ellen (Eleonora) Wayles Randolph was the daughter of Thomas Mann Randolph and Martha Jefferson Randolph. Coolidge was a well-educated woman, proficient in languages. She learned Latin, French, and other modern languages. Martha, a very well-educated woman for the time, taught
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Coolidge and her siblings had an "idyllic rural life", playing outdoors on the plantation's vast lawn, acquiring a good education, and enjoying civility at
Monticello. In 1825, Coolidge commissioned her friend Jane Braddick Peticolas to capture a scene of her brother playing on the lawn as he is
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There are geneaological records, which are not reliable sources, that state that Ellen was born
October 13, 1796. The Monticello site states that she was born in October 1796. Not to be confused with a child of the same name born in 1794 and died in
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Coolidge went overseas in 1838 and 1844. She recorded her visit to London in 1838 in a journal. The
Coolidges lived in Switzerland and in Europe for several years, beginning in 1844. Ellen Coolidge died on April 21, 1876. She was buried in
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was missed and how her new home state would be more "congenial to your mind" since slavery ended in
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Coolidge had five pregnancies in six years, including a set of twin boys. She primarily raised her six children as a single parent because Joseph
Coolidge was overseas in China and Europe for extended periods of time.
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