Millard Fillmore

Millard Powers Fillmore

He was born April 25, 1828 and he died November 15, 1889. "Powers" served his father, as a personal secretary during the latter's time as president. A student at Harvard, he later practiced law and was appointed as a federal court clerk. Much of the rest of his life is a mystery. He had no children and was never married. Before his death he arranged for the destruction of all his private papers.

Mary Abigail "Abby" Fillmore

She was born March 27, 1832. Historians differ on the date of her death. It was July 26 or 27, 1854. Abby lived a charmed life as a child and teenager . After the death of Zachary Taylor, her vice presidential father moved into the White House where she often served as hostess, assisting her mother, Abigail. She died tragically of cholera at the tender age of 22. Abby never married.

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