11 Facts About Letitia Stevenson

Letitia Green Stevenson was the wife of Vice President Adlai E Stevenson I, and thus second lady of the United States from 1893 to 1897.

Letitia Stevenson was the daughter of Presbyterian Reverend Lewis W Green, who was the head of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and Mary Peachy Fry, a descendant of surveyor and adventurer Joshua Fry.

Letitia Stevenson was educated at the Walnut Hill Female Institute in Lexington, Kentucky, and a school near Gramercy Park in New York City.

Letitia Stevenson maintained the household in the frequent absence of her husband.

Letitia Stevenson traveled with her son to sanitariums across the region.

Already used to public speaking through her leadership of Bloomington women's clubs, Letitia Stevenson spoke on her husband's behalf, especially in opposition to the Lodge Bill.

Letitia Stevenson typically wrote an acknowledgment letter to local media after campaigning in a city.

Lewis Letitia Stevenson became the Illinois secretary of state and father of Illinois Governor and 1952 and 1956 presidential candidate Adlai Letitia Stevenson.

Letitia Stevenson suffered from severe rheumatism and migraine headaches that often forced her to wear leg braces.

Letitia Stevenson helped establish the Daughters of the American Revolution to try to heal the divisions between North and South after the Civil War and succeeded Mrs Caroline Harrison as President General.

Letitia Stevenson died at home on Christmas Day aged 70 in 1913.