In 1885, the year he was admitted to the Tennessee bar, lean, virile William Gibbs McAdoo, 22, married Sarah Houstoun Fleming of Chattanooga. She bore him six children, saw him grow rich & famed, died in 1912. Next year Mr. McAdoo became Woodrow Wilson's first Secretary of the Treasury and, somewhat hopelessly because he was already a grandfather and twice her age, began courting the youngest of the President's three daughters. On a bench near the foot of the Washington Monument one December evening he plucked up courage, proposed, was accepted. Secretary...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In