Identifier: presidentssoldie02hard (find matches)
Title: Presidents, soldiers, statesmen... with a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hardesty, Hiram H., 1834-1898, pub. 2n
Subjects: United States
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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ded with passports from theRussian government, and relying on her husbands position as an Ameri-can minister no less, she left St. Petersburg with her little boy, and be-gan her journey. It was a perilous one. Progress was hindered bvsnow-drifts; stories of robbery and murder greeted her at every stoppingplace; some of her servants deserted her: at one place the sight of aPolish cap on the head of an attendant brought amob about her carriage.As she neare.l Paris the country was all inarms, for Napoleon had landedfrom Elba, and was marching on the capital. But she reached Parissafe and well at last, on the evening of March 21. 1815, and found herhusband there. In May following she was again in London, where Mr.Adams soon after received his appointment as minister to the Englishcourt, and where, greater joy, she had with her all her sous, from two ofwhom she had been separated since 180!). The reunited family passedtwo happy years there, returning to the United States on the packet-ship
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(RS. ADAMS RESTING PLACE ON HER JOURNEY TO FRANCE. 400 PRESIDENTS, SOLDIERS, 8TATES5TEN. Washington, when Mr. Adams was appointed Secretary of State inMadisons cabinet. They landed in New York on August 6, 1*17, and immediately paid avisit to Mr. Adams parents, then made their home in Washington.Among the distinguished entertainers of the next four years Mrs. Adamswas second to none. The inborn ability which she possessed in markeddegree had been cultivated iu the first instance by a good education, andstill further by the associations which had attended her residence abroad.and men of distinguished merit found iu her house most congenial com-panionship, and the diplomatic corps which her husbands position broughtabout him rendered homage to her. Her son, Charles Frauci- Adams,in 1839 wrote of the eight years iu which she presided in the house ofthe Secretary of State : No exclusions were made in her invitationsmerelv on account of any real or imagined political hostility. Nor. though

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