Calvin Coolidge

John Coolidge

He was born September 7, 1906 and died at ninety-three on May 31, 2000. (at that time the oldest living child of an American president.) A graduate of Amherst, John married Florence Trumbull, the daughter of the governor of Connecticut. They had two children. He worked for the New York, New Haven and Harford Railroad for twelve years and then became president of the Connecticut Manifold Forms Co. in West Hartford in 1941. After selling that company in 1958, he revived the Plymouth Cheese Corporation in 1960. Preservation was important to John Coolidge. After his retirement, he began to buy buildings in the village of Plymouth. Sixteen buildings now serve as the basis of President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site in Plymouth, Vermont.

Calvin Coolidge Jr.

He was born April 13, 1908 and died July 7, 1924. His life was tragically cut short while home at the White House for his summer vacation. He had played tennis all day, and suddenly he developed a blister on his foot and died of blood poisoning a few days later. He was just sixteen.

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