instead commissioning much-needed updates to the presidential home. Widowed in 1880, Arthur asked his younger sister, Mary Arthur McElroy, to oversee the customary social duties of the First Lady ...

Amidst all of this, James Garfield was elected president, bringing hope to Americans of all backgrounds across the nation.

Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee in 1880 and they had one child ... servant serving as Commissioner of the U.S. Civil Service Commission (1889-1895) and as President of the New York City Police ...