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Millard Fillmore Family Bible with Washington, Adams and Jefferson Association, Heavily Annotated by Caroline, Both Before and After Her Marriage to the President
Millard Fillmore Family Bible with Washington, Adams and Jefferson Association, Heavily Annotated by Caroline, Both Before and After Her Marriage to the President
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Fillmore Millard

Millard Fillmore Family Bible with Washington, Adams and Jefferson Association, Heavily Annotated by Caroline, Both Before and After Her Marriage to the President

[MILLARD FILLMORE.] The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: According to the Commonly Received Version (New York: American and Foreign Bible Society, 1840). 424 pp., 6" x 9". Ownership inscriptions by President Millard Fillmore’s second wife Caroline C. McIntosh Fillmore, ca. 1850s-1860s.  Former library book; cover partially detached; wear to covers; some water damage to front pages. Several verses underlined and numerous fists in margins pointing to specific verses, along with at least one internal marginal signature.

Excerpts from Inscriptions

“Mrs. C. C. McIntosh / Albany”

“Louisa West 15 years old of Georgetown Kentucky / Committed to memory accurately in 6 weeks The New Testament without neglecting her other domestic duties. ? ? 2d January 1847.”

“Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage is [their?] country seat of his in Tennessee.

2d John Adams of Braintree

1 George Washington Mt Vernon

John Quincy Adams  Quincy



Thomas Jefferson”

“The (Bible) / The revd Mr Cuyler / said / It is the God given Charter of Liberty – of temperance over debauchery and lust – of truth over error – of light over darkness – of eternal life over (eternal death) the death that never dies. From the N. J. State Gaz: of the 6th of June 1856 / Theodore L. Cuyler”

[on title page]: “Caroline C. Fillmore / Buffalo”

[inside back cover:] “Mrs. C. C. Fillmore / Niagara Square / Buffalo”

Historical Background

Millard Fillmore became a charter member of a local Unitarian Church in Buffalo in 1831, though his first wife Abigail, raised a Baptist, did not participate in that church. Fillmore expressed few views about religion other than a strong commitment to the separation of church and state. His association with the First Unitarian Church of Buffalo continued for thirty-five years, and he took John Quincy Adams to church there in 1843 and President-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. In an 1849 letter, he turned down a request to speak to a Unitarian meeting in Boston with the curious statement, “I sympathize with those who inhance liberal Christianity. But yet I am not a member of the Unitarian church,” which has confused biographers and historians since.

His second wife was a member for many years of the Baptist Church in Albany with her first husband. When she moved to Buffalo, she transferred her membership to the Baptist Church in that city, and apparently her husband sometimes accompanied her to services there. The pastor of the Washington Street Baptist Church conducted her funeral in 1881.

Theodore L. Cuyler (1822-1909) was a theologically conservative Presbyterian minister and author, who also supported the temperance and abolition movements. He served as pastor of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City from 1860 to 1890, and wrote numerous books and thousands of articles for religious publications.

Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) was born in a log cabin in western New York. Largely self-taught, he later read law with several lawyers before being admitted to the bar in 1823. He married Abigail Powers (1798-1853) in 1826, and they had two children. He represented New York as a Whig in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1833 to 1835 and again from 1837 to 1843. He returned to his law practice and in 1846 helped found the University of Buffalo and became its first chancellor. While Fillmore served as state comptroller in 1848, the Whig Party selected him as the vice-presidential running mate for Mexican War hero Zachary Taylor. When Whigs won the presidential election of 1848, Fillmore became vice president in March 1849. As vice president, he preesided over the Senate during the contentious debates over the Compromise of 1850, which Fillmore favored. When President Taylor suddenly died on July 9, 1850, Fillmore became the 13th President of the United States. Although the Compromise of 1850, as proposed in a single bill by Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky failed to gain enough support to pass, Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois pushed through the provisions as five separate bills, and President Fillmore signed them as they reached him. His support of the Fugitive Slave Act part of the Compromise made him unpopular with many northern Whigs. In 1852, Fillmore lost the Whig nomination to Mexican War hero Winfield Scott, whom Democrat Franklin Pierce easily defeated in the general election. Fillmore’s wife died just weeks after Pierce became president, and Fillmore returned to New York, where a year later, his only daughter died. After spending a year in Europe and the Middle East, Fillmore was the prsidential candidate for the American Party in 1856. He garnered more than 21 percent of the popular vote but won only the state of Maryland in the Electoral College. In 1858, Fillmore married wealthy widow Caroline C. McIntosh (1813-1881). Although he supported Stephen Douglas, the northern Democratic candidate in the election of 1860, like Douglas, Fillmore was a strong supporter of the Union and supported Lincoln’s efforts to preserve the Union.

Caroline Carmichael McIntosh Fillmore (1813-1881) was born in New Jersey, and married Ezekiel C. McIntosh (1806-1855), a prosperous New York merchant and railroad president, in 1832. They had no children, and his early death left her very wealthy. She married former President Millard Fillmore in February 1858 in Albany, New York. She required him to sign a prenuptial agreement, and they settled in Buffalo. Her health began to decline in the 1860s, and more rapidly after Fillmore’s sudden death in 1874. After her death, several members of the Fillmore family initiated lawsuits contesting the provisions of her oft-changed will.

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