biography
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Fillmore, Abigail
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née Powers
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1798–1853)
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| biography:
| US first lady (1850–3), born in Stillwater, New York, USA. She was a schoolteacher, and Millard Fillmore was originally one of her students; they married in 1826. She started the first White House library, but died of bronchial pneumonia shortly after the presidency began. |
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