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FILLMORE GENEALOGIES BY MILLARD AS 19-YEAR OLD
AND AS FORMER PRESIDENT
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FILLMORE, MILLARD. Two Autograph Manuscripts Signed, five times, state-
ments concerning the genealogy of his father’s family. The first, a one-page listing of the
birthdates of his father’s family members. Signed in the third person within the text, and
again at bottom of page. The second, a narrative history of the Fillmore family beginning
with his own paternal grandparents. Signed in the by-line at top of first page, again in the
third person within the text, and again in the docket on verso of terminal page. Together
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pages, folio or 4to, the 1853 document written on rectos only of separate sheets
bound together at upper left with ribbon; condition generally good. (TFC)
Sempronius, 29 January 1819; Buffalo, 23 August 1853
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1819:“By . . . recording the Epoch . . . we are capable of judging of the velocity of time and the effect
it has upon the Human frame and the mental faculty.
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A record of the births of Nathaniel Fillmore’s family.
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Nathaniel Fillmore was born April 19th 1771. . . . Millard Fillmore was born Jan’y 7th 1800. . . .
1853: “Nathaniel Fillmore, the third son of John Fillmore but the first by his second wife, Miss Day,
was born in Norwich (now Franklin) Connecticut, March 20th 1740 O[ld] S[tyle] and served three
campaigns during the French war when only 16 or 17 years of age. . . .
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Millard Fillmore, second child & eldest son of Nathaniel, was married to Abigail Powers at the vil-
lage of Moravia in the County of Cayuga & State of N.Y. on the 5th day of February 1826 . . . .
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. . . [S]he resided with her husband atWashington, and was taken sick immediately after the close of
his presidential term, and died at the city HotelWashington March 30th 1853 at 9A.M. . . .”
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FILLMORE, MILLARD. Autograph Letter Signed, as NY Comptroller andVice-
President Elect, to William B. Rose, thanking him for congratulations, returning the
newspaper he sent because of insufficient time to read it [not present]. 1 page, 4to; some
loss to lower left edge with minor loss to text, moderate scattered foxing, faint scattered
soiling, docketing verso, folds. (TFC)
Albany, 18 November 1848
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I . . . return your very cordial thanks
for your kind congratulations at the
result of the election. I am particularly
gratified at the vote in Pennsylvania. It
. . . is as glorious for the whig cause as
I trust it will be beneficial to the inter-
ests of your state. . . .
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. . . I am . . . discharging the duties
of a very laborious office, and am
compelled to return unopened many
papers . . . .”
Fillmore served as Vice President for
little more than a year, when he was
elevated to the presidency due to the
death of President Zachary Taylor in
July of 1850.