Wilson sisters rise in social work and arts
The article profiles Miss Jessie Wilson and Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson, daughters of a prominent family. Jessie, educated at Baltimore's college, dedicates weeks to settlement work at the Light House in Philadelphia. Eleanor, namesake of her mother, studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and inherits artistic talent.
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Woodrow Wilson and the Wilson Family
Walton Williams surveys Woodrow Wilson’s rise from Princeton scholar to New Jersey governor and then U.S. president. The piece traces Wilson’s early life in Staunton Virginia his education at Princeton and Virginia his law and teaching path in Atlanta and Baltimore and his progressive reforms in New Jersey highlighting his independence from political bosses and his public appeal. It notes Wilsons three sisters and wife Miss Margaret Wilson Miss Jessie Wilson and Miss Eleanor Wilson and comments on the family social circle in the South and at Princeton.
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