Florence Mabel Harding (née Kling; August 15, 1860 – November 21, 1924) was the first lady of the United States from 1921 until her husband's death in 1923 as the wife of President Warren G. Harding.

There have been total of 55 first ladies including 44 official and 11 acting, within 47 first ladyships. This discrepancy exists because some presidents had multiple first ladies. Following Donald Trump 's inauguration on January 20, 2025, his wife, …

The PS Lady Elgin was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship that sank in Lake Michigan off the fledgling town of Port Clinton, Illinois, whose geography is now divided between Highland Park and Highwood, Illinois, after she was rammed in a gale by the schooner Augusta in the early hours of September 8, 1860.

Just before midnight on September 7, 1860, a palatial sidewheel steamboat named the Lady Elgin left Chicago bound for Milwaukee. The almost 400 passengers on the steamer were returning from a long day’s outing.

Dec 16, 2009 · Florence Harding (1860-1924) was an American first lady (1921-23) and the wife of Warren G. Harding, 29th president of the United States. Energetic, strong-willed and popular, she was an...

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Jun 10, 2020 · The Veiled Lady at Mia, carved by Raffaelle Monti around 1860. On October 12, 1846, William Spencer Cavendish dropped by the studio of Raffaelle Monti, in Milan, Italy, to inquire about a lady. Cavendish was the 6th Duke of Devonshire, widely known in England as the “bachelor duke.” He had eight of the finest homes in Britain.

On September 8, 1860, the LADY ELGIN became a heartbreaking history. Built as a wooden steam paddle in 1851 at Buffalo by Bidwell & Banta for Patchin & Appleby of Buffalo, she was named after the wife of the then Governor General of British America, Lord Elgin.

The evening of Sept. 7, 1860, the sidewheel steamer, Lady Elgin, bearing about 300 Milwaukeeans who had taken advantage of an excursion rate of $1 for the round trip from Milwaukee to Chicago, put out from Chicago in the face of a threatening storm.

Jan 9, 2018 · By the end of the 1860s, however, when the acute crisis of war had passed and women had been for years laboring alongside men who performed identical or similar work but …