The President’s Message:
Thank you to everyone
who brought snacks and soft drinks to the May meeting.
They were greatly appreciated.
Please sign the Forage List to bring refreshments to future
meetings. Mary Ellen will
give the members on the sign- up sheet a reminder call a few days before
the meeting.
Please tell friends, neighbors, and acquaintances
about the Round Table.
Gerridine La Rovere
June 14, 2017 Program:
Our next speaker will be Philip Leigh.
His topic will be:
Southern Reconstruction which is also the
name of his upcoming book.
Mr. Leigh has published numerous works on the American Civil War.
May 10, 2017 Program:
On Wednesday, May 10,
2017, the members of the CWRT conducted a round table discussion.
The topic was the
Fascinating Facts About President's Who Served in the Civil War.
Gerridine served as the moderator and the members present broke
off into groups of two or three.
May 10, 2017 Program:
On Wednesday, May 10, 2017, the members of the CWRT conducted a round
table discussion. The topic
was the
Fascinating Facts About President's Who Served in the Civil War.
Gerridine served as the moderator and the members present broke
off into groups of two or three.
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Chester Arthur
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
1. One president was another president’s grandfather. Identify them
both.
2. What was the real full name of Ulysses S. Grant?
3. Which of the above
presidents was arrested?
4. Who was the last president to be
born in a log cabin?
5. Only one president never had any
formal schooling. Who was he?
6. Which president served in the
U.S. Senate after being president?
7. What president graduated from
West Point?
8. Which president was married
twice?
9. Who was president when electric
lights were added to the White House?
10.
Who made the first telephone call?
11.
Who became president without having held previous elective
office?
12.
Which presidents achieved the presidency only by succession?
13.
When was William McKinley elected president?
14.
Five presidents were bearded. Name them.
15. Which president could write
Latin with one hand and Greek with another?
16.
Which future president was wounded four times during the Civil
War and listed as dead?
17.
What happened to former President Hayes when he was returning
home from President Garfield’s inauguration?
18.
Which president entered office as a widower?
19.
Who was the first candidate to campaign by telephone?
20.
Who was the first candidate to run a front porch campaign?
21.
Which presidents were assassinated?
22.
Which five presidents were born in Ohio?
23.
Which president was a talented wrestler?
24.
Who was known as the “Preacher President”?
25.
Who was known as “The Gentleman Boss”?
26.
Which president used profanity only twice in his life?
27.
Whose wife was called Lemonade Lucy?
28.
Who is buried in Grant’s tomb?
29.
Which president had the most children?
30.
Who was the first First Lady to hold a college degree?
31.
Who ended reconstruction policies Congress had imposed on the
South?
32.
Which presidents were not affiliated with an organized religion?
33.
Which president was said to have the demeanor of a benign
undertaker?
34.
Who could have been saved by a nearby x-ray machine?
35.
What president attended the first major league baseball game?
36.
Who established the first National Park?
37. Which president had all of
these careers- teacher, school principal, and lawyer?
38. Which
president was left-handed?
Answers:
-
William Henry Harrison (9th President) was grandfather to
Benjamin Harrison (23rd).
-
Hiram Ulysses Grant.
He disliked the initials of his birth name and adopted the
name a Congressman
erroneously gave him.
-
Grant was arrested for driving his horse-drawn
carriage too fast. He
was fined twenty dollars.
-
Garfield who was born in Orange, Ohio in1831.
-
Johnson. While indentured as a tailor, at night, he
taught himself to read.
-
Johnson, president from 1865 to 1869 and elected to
Senate from Tenn. In 1875.
-
Grant, class of 1843.
-
Harrison.
-
Harrison in 1891.
-
Hayes had a telephone installed in the White House in
1879 but only the Treasury Department also had a phone.
-
Grant.
-
Johnson and Arthur.
-
In 1896 and 1900. He was assassinated in 1901.
-
Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Hayes, and Harrison had
beards while in office.
-
Garfield.
-
While in the Union Army Hayes was hit four times by
shells and musket balls.
At the battle of Cedar Creek in Sept of 1864, he was wounded, had
his horse shot out from under him, and erroneously reported as dead.
-
His trained collided with another passenger train.
Two people were killed and over 20 injured.
Hayes was only slightly shaken up.
-
Arthur
-
McKinley in 1896.
He kept in touch with his campaign managers around the
country from his home in Canton, Ohio.
-
In 1880, Garfield became the first presidential
candidate to run his campaign from his home.
A telegraph office was set up on his property in Mentor, Ohio
and ran his campaign without touring.
-
Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley.
-
Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, and McKinley.
-
Lincoln.
-
Garfield was at one time a lay preacher for the
Disciples of Christ.
Nevertheless, he had at least one extramarital affair.
-
Arthur won this left-handed compliment by running
NYC’s corrupt customs Department with impeccable manners.
After becoming president, he turned on the system that help
create him and introduced civil service reforms.
-
It is said that during the Civil War he cursed a
Confederate soldier out on the battlefield.
Years later, he used profanity when he discovered that his
father’s body was stolen from its crypt and sold to a medical
school.
-
Lucy Webb Hayes earned that nickname.
She refused to serve alcohol or wine in the White House.
-
Grant and
Julia Dent Grant.
-
Hayes. Seven sons and one daughter. Birchard Austin
(1853-1926), Webb Cooke(1856-1934), Rutherford Platt (1858-1927),
Joseph Thompson(1861-1863), Charles Crook(1854-1866),
Fanny(1866-1950), Scott Russell(1871-1923), Manning Force(1873-1874)
-
Lucy Hayes.
-
Hayes
-
Lincoln and Johnson Grant-Meth. Hayes-Meth, Garfield
-Disciples of Christ, Harrison-Presb., McKinley- Meth.
-
McKinley
-
McKinley.
-
Harrison
-
Grant, Yellowstone National Park
-
Arthur
-
Garfield
Last changed: 05/15/17
Home
About News
Newsletters
Calendar
Memories
Links Join
|