Woodrow Wilson

Margaret Woodrow Wilson

Born April 30, 1886, she died on February 12, 1944. Having studied music at Goucher College and in private lessons in New York, Margaret traveled across the U.S. and Europe during World War I giving concerts for soldiers and raising funds for the Red Cross. Devoted to social causes, she studied the religious classics of India extensively. She eventually traveled to Pondicherry, India, where she lived in the ashram of Sri Aurobindo, a contemporary of Gandhi. Never married, she died of uremia on April 24, 1944, and is buried in the Protestant cemetery at the ashram in Pondicherry.

Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre

Born August 28, 1887. He died January 15, 1933. A Princeton graduate, Jessie married Francis Sayre, a Harvard Law professor. They had three children. She worked vigorously for women's suffrage, social issues, and to promote her father's call for a League of Nations, and emerged as a force in the Massachusetts Democratic Party. She died of surgical complications following an appendectomy at age 45.

Eleanor "Nellie" Randolph Wilson McAdoo

She was born October 16, 1889. She died April 5, 1967. Eleanor was famous for her White House wedding to the 52-year-old William Gibbs McAdoo, her father's Secretary of the Treasury. A Princeton graduate, Eleanor was bright, and her highly publicized wedding made her and William the power couple of the capitol. They had two children but divorced in 1934.

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