County of Monmouth issued the following announcement.
Throwback Thursday from the County Clerk's #MonmouthCountyArchives: New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson and Family, 1912
Woodrow Wilson and his wife and daughters pose at the governor’s “summer cottage” in #SeaGirt, Summer 1912. Left to right are Miss Margaret Wilson, Mrs. Ellen Wilson, Miss Eleanor Wilson, Miss Jessie Wilson, and Governor Wilson. In the second photo, Wilson poses at the #MonmouthCounty Fair of 1912.
Mrs. Ellen Wilson died in 1914 and President Wilson subsequently married Edith Bolling Galt in Washington. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (he dropped the first name) was born in Virginia on December 28, 1856, graduated from Princeton University in 1879, and received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1886. After teaching at several colleges, Wilson joined the Princeton faculty in 1890 and was appointed university president in 1902. He was selected by New Jersey’s Democratic Party leaders as their candidate for governor in 1910 and won the election by an overwhelming majority. Wilson subsequently governed as a progressive reformer, gaining national attention that led to his election as U.S. President in 1912. JB (Joseph Bilby)
Source: The Archives' "New Jersey in Focus: The #WWI Era 1910-1920" Catalog: https://www.monmouthcountyclerk.com/.../exhibit-catalogs.../
Original source can be found here.
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