Millard Fillmore was born in a frontier cabin in Cayuga county, New York, on Jan. 7, 1800. He was the second child and the first of five sons of Nathaniel and Phoebe Millard Fillmore. The family was miserably poor, and Fillmore was almost entirely self-educated. Deeply wanting an education, Millard Fillmore, enrolled in an academy at New Hope, New York, where he met his future wife, Abigail Powers. In that same year Fillmore’s father obtained a …showed first 75 words of 1263 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1263 total…own, enabled them to purchase a huge, ornate Gothic mansion on Niagara Square in Buffalo. Mrs. Fillmore embellished this with numerous portraits and busts of her husband, and, as long as her health permitted, it was a center of generous hospitality. She became a chronic invalid in the 1860’s, but her husband’s health remained good until a paralytic stroke, on Feb. 13, 1874, gave warning of the end. Following a second stroke, death came on March 8, 1874.