Letitia Green Stevenson
| Letitia Stevenson | |
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| Second Lady of the United States | |
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In role March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897 |
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| President | Grover Cleveland |
| Preceded by | Anna Morton |
| Succeeded by | Jennie Hobart |
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Letitia Green January 8, 1843 Allegheny, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | December 25, 1913 (aged 70) Bloomington, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Adlai Stevenson (1866–1913) |
| Children | Lewis |
Letitia Green Stevenson (January 8, 1843 – December 25, 1913) was the wife of Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson I, who served in the second administration of President Grover Cleveland.
Letitia Green was born on January 8, 1843. She was the daughter of Presbyterian Reverend Lewis W. Green (1806-1863), who was the head of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and Mary Peachy Fry, a descendant of surveyor and adventurer Joshua Fry. She was educated at the Walnut Hill Female Institute in Lexington, Kentucky, and a school near Gramercy Park in New York City. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, she returned to Lexington. After her father died the next year, Green moved with her mother north to Chenoa, Illinois, where her sister Julia lived. There, she met and was courted by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, a graduate of Centre. The pair wed at Julia's house on December 22, 1866.
The Stevensons moved into a house in nearby Bloomington in 1869, shortly after the birth of their first child, Lewis, so named for her father. They carefully planned their family in an era before this was common or publicly accepted. Letitia maintained the household in the frequent absence of her husband. Daughter Mary, nicknamed "Bessie", was sickly as a child and eventually succumbed to tuberculosis in 1895. Lewis was also frequently hospitalized due to complications from an injury sustained while hunting. Stevenson traveled with her son to sanitariums across the region. Eventually, Stevenson's responsibilities waned as Lewis married and daughters Julia and Letitia left for boarding school. After a political appointment in 1884 led to a move to Washington, D.C., Stevenson became engrossed in the emerging women's rights movement.
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