John Calvin Coolidge Jr., President of the USA, was born 4 July 1872 in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, United States to John Calvin Coolidge (1845-1926) and Victoria Josephine Moor (1846-1885) and died 5 January 1933 Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States of heart attack. He married Grace Anna Goodhue (1879-1957) 4 October 1905 in 312 Maple Street, Burlington, Vermont, United States.
Birth and family history
Coolidge as an Amherst undergraduate
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., was born in Plymouth Notch, Windsor County, Vermont, on July 4, 1872, the only U.S. President to be born on Independence Day. He was the elder of the two children of John Calvin Coolidge, Sr. (1845–1926) and Victoria Josephine Moor (1846–85). Coolidge Senior engaged in many occupations, and ultimately enjoyed a statewide reputation as a prosperous farmer, storekeeper and public servant; he farmed, taught school, ran a local store, served in the Vermont House of Representatives and the Vermont Senate, and held various local offices including justice of the peace and tax collector.[1] Coolidge's mother was the daughter of a Plymouth Notch farmer. Coolidge's chronically ill mother died, perhaps from tuberculosis, when he was twelve years old. His sister, Abigail Grace Coolidge (1875–90), died at the age of fifteen, when Coolidge was eighteen. Coolidge's father remarried in 1891, to a schoolteacher, and lived to the age of eighty.[2]
Coolidge's family had deep roots in New England. His earliest American ancestor, John Coolidge, emigrated from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England, around 1630 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts.[3] Another ancestor, Edmund Rice, arrived at Watertown in 1638. Coolidge's great-great-grandfather, also named John Coolidge, was an American military officer in the Revolutionary War and one of the first selectmen of the town of Plymouth Notch.[4] Most of Coolidge's ancestors were farmers. Other prominent Coolidges, architect Charles Allerton Coolidge, General Charles Austin Coolidge, and diplomat Archibald Cary Coolidge among them, were descended from branches of the family that had remained in Massachusetts.[3] Coolidge's grandmother Sarah Almeda Brewer had two famous first cousins: Arthur Brown, a United States Senator, and Olympia Brown, a women's suffragist. It is through Sarah Brewer that Coolidge believed that he inherited American Indian blood, but this descent has never been established by modern genealogists.[5]
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| John Coolidge (1906-2000) | 7 September 1906 Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States | 31 May 2000 Lebanon, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States | Florence Trumbull (1904-1998) |
| Calvin Coolidge (1908-1924) | |||
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