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Calvin Coolidge, The Life and Death of the 30th President of the United States
Calvin Coolidge, The Life and Death of the 30th President of the United States
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On July 4, 1872, America's Independence Day, a baby was born in Plymouth Notch, Windsor County, Vermont and given the name John. As in John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.
When he was twelve years old, his mother, Victoria Josephine Moor Coolidge, died of suspected tuberculosis. When he was eighteen, his younger sister, Abigail Grace Coolidge, also died. She was only fifteen.
Coolidge grew up helping his storekeeper father tend accounts, selling apples, and doing other chores around the store and at home on the family farm. As a boy, Coolidge had little ambition in life beyond hoping to follow his father as a good, honest small-town merchant.
After college, Coolidge read law in a law firm in Northampton, Massachusetts, passing the bar in the summer of 1897. He then opened a law office and began participating in local Republican politics in Northampton.
After the death of his mother, his father, John Calvin Coolidge, Sr., then married Carrie A. Brown, a local schoolteacher in 1891. She grew very close to Calvin over the years. The senior Coolidge, a man of stern appearance and a pillar of the community, served six years in the Vermont House of Representatives and a term in the Vermont Senate.
When he was twelve years old, his mother, Victoria Josephine Moor Coolidge, died of suspected tuberculosis. When he was eighteen, his younger sister, Abigail Grace Coolidge, also died. She was only fifteen.
Coolidge grew up helping his storekeeper father tend accounts, selling apples, and doing other chores around the store and at home on the family farm. As a boy, Coolidge had little ambition in life beyond hoping to follow his father as a good, honest small-town merchant.
After college, Coolidge read law in a law firm in Northampton, Massachusetts, passing the bar in the summer of 1897. He then opened a law office and began participating in local Republican politics in Northampton.
After the death of his mother, his father, John Calvin Coolidge, Sr., then married Carrie A. Brown, a local schoolteacher in 1891. She grew very close to Calvin over the years. The senior Coolidge, a man of stern appearance and a pillar of the community, served six years in the Vermont House of Representatives and a term in the Vermont Senate.
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