Frances Folsom was 21 when she married the 49-yeqr-old Grover Cleveland, making her the youngest First Lady in US history. Widower Woodrow Wilson would also marry his second wife while in office, but the Cleveland-Folsom ceremony in the East Room was the only presidential knot-tying to take place within the White House itself.
Edward is a literary historian specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American social and cultural history. He was associate editor of the World Authors reference series published by H. W. Wilson. He was also associate editor of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, the English language editor for the Japanese American News Corporation, chief editor of Global Rhythm magazine, and a contributing writer to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture.
