Grant's wife was cross-eyed, and owned slaves during the Civil War while her husband served as general of the Union Army.   ... Arthur's sister Mary Arthur McElroy served as White House hostess and later joined the anti-suffrage movement. ... Before their marriage, Cleveland's sister Rose Elizabeth Cleveland served as House hostess of the bachelor president.   ... Ida McKinley 1847-1907 William McKinley's wife was the only first lady to work as a bank teller and manager, and successfully urged her husband to retain the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.   ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Barbara Kingsolver is the author of many well-written pieces of literature including The Poisonwood Bible. ... As she describes them, the days when there was still room for laughter in her husband's evangelical calling, before her pregnancies embarrassed him, before he returned from World War II a different man, a man who planned ''to save more souls than had perished on the road from Bataan.'' ... She sees that her father's ''blue eyes with their left-sided squint, weakened by the war, had a vacant look. ... Adah feels somewhat jealous, and irritated w...

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