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Excerpt from Presiding Ladies of the White House: Containing Biographical Appreciations Together With a Short History of the Executive Mansion and a Treatise on Its Etiquette and Customs
L etitia christian, of Virginia, President Tyler's first wife, was extremely delicate and lived scarcely two years after his inauguration She was lovely and gentle, highly accomplished and beautiful, greatly beloved by her husband and family, but seldom seen in public, therefore during his administration the White House had several mistresses. The duties of hostess sometimes devolved upon his married daughter, but were generally assumed by his daughter - in- law, kirs. Robert Tyler to Whom were relegated the duties of perm hos 1788 e President married u r. Ceremony took place at the Church of the Ascension in New York City, and was the first instance of the marriage of a President, which fact excited intense interest throughout the United States. Mrs. Julia Tyler, for the remaining eight months of the term, filled her oosition c1editably and gracefully. She died in 1889, having long outlived her husband.
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